Tuesday, March 16, 2010

A Mishmash of Quotable Quickies

A Mishmash of Quotable Quickies

Eight Stories to Mull Over on a Dreary Day:

Innercity School Sends 100% of Its Graduates on to College. Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy for Young Men not only graduated every young man in their school but every one of them is going to college next semester. All 107 seniors in Urban Prep will be attending one of 72 American colleges. Kudos to the grads and to their excellent school! (http://bit.ly/bJrKDO)

People Who Tempt Mother Nature Should Pay the Piper: Hamptonites who built homes on the Atlantic are all in a tizzy after being flooded out by last weekend’s nor’easter which brought 17 foot waves and 70 mph winds to their front doors: http://bit.ly/d3VOhr. Taxpayer-subsidized flood insurance will help them rebuild but won’t do much for their eroded private beaches.

A Kiss Is But a Kiss, Except in Dubai: An amorous British couple in Dubai faces a month in jail . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1566)

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