Minwoo’s Right Brain Archive

US Election 2004

Hehe.. no surprises there. I wonder how many Mississippi’ans know how to spell the name of the state they’re living in :D

(Thanks Rex!)
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Welcome to the Tucson Citizen

Through the 1990s, the average weight of Americans increased by 10 pounds, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The extra weight caused airlines to spend $275 million to burn 350 million more gallons of fuel in 2000 to carry the additional weight, the federal centers estimated in a recent issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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The extra fuel burned had an environmental impact, as an estimated 3.8 million extra tons of carbon dioxide were released into the air, the study says.
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It was the underlying cause of 400,000 deaths in 2000, a 33 percent jump from 1990.

If the trend persists, it will become the nation’s No. 1 cause of preventable death, the centers said earlier this year.

Hmm.. wait a minute.. Does that mean jet fuel only costs about $1.25/gallon?? Is there a car that run on jet fuel? ;)
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I know it’s not going to make much difference here in California, but everyone should go out and VOTE!

Standing in line at the polling place this morning, I remebered an episode from my Jr. High. days. I was thirteen, and my family had just moved to US. I could not read, write, or speak English, so my life in school were quite miserable to say the least. One day, my home room teacher passed around small pieces of papers to everyone, and students wrote something on it while trying not to show it to their neighbors. Not knowing what in the heck is going on, I just sat there, my mind frantically trying to guess what other people were doing.. Then, this nice girl came by, wrote something on my paper, and took it.. kindly smiling at me. `Ah, thank you, thank you`. Well, so I thought.. As you can all guess, they were holding an election for the class president. And that wench just took an advantage of a FOB to get another vote for herself! I don’t remember whether she got elected.. I couldn’t really care less. But I do wonder what happened to that girl.. Maybe she’s working for Karl Rove in Bush campaign..
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