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Congratulations to your daughter and your family. It is not easy to be the best. Wonderful that her patients will have her great mind with such drive to care for them. Thanks for sharing. Sorry that a professor does not know more about his/her students. One student teacher mother of five came to school with a forgotten pacifier pinned to her blouse.

How do we know what is made in China? My Crest toothpaste has distributed by Proctor and Gamble for the source and it has a ADA American Dental Association sign. Many products have such useless information. Is that against the law to not have where the product is made? It is a big problem to only say distributed by or where it is packaged.

Property taxes are expected to increase 8.2 percent next year according to the latest estimate from the MN Revenue Department. Earlier predictions were to be higher, but many districts defeated property tax increase in the Nov. 7 election. Many fees were increased or created to makeup for the so called no new taxes rant from the last four years.

You can bet your bottom dollar that the small print will inform the ladies that they will not be able to sue or take part in any type of money compensations if the implant fails, sickness develops, death is the result, leakage occurs, or the many other problems. A signature of agreement will be required. If the cover of the implant is made out of silicone, there will be leakage. Give the ladies that are allergic to silicone or whatever caused the problem about six years. It would be interesting to read the studies and who paid for them. Time will tell.

Farmers haven't any power. The last farm bill was a freedom to fail for farmers. Do you really think the farmers are receiving any big money from the government. It takes about $2.50 to raise a bushel of corn. That bushel will sell for about $2.00 for the farmer today. Last year it sold for about $1.39 around this time. The government stepped in and made up the rest to hit around $1.79. Now you have to ask who is buying all this cheap corn and really getting the subsidies. It is not the farmer that had to pay $2.50 to produce that bushel of corn. As an example, it is the factory farm that feeds the corn to chickens, hogs, etc. It is the end-user that maybe feeds you. Farmers need profit like all other businesses and we are not making money. Farmers do not have power. Farmers also pay into checkoffs. That money does not help us. We still get around $2.00 for corn. If that bushel of corn would sell for profit at around $3.00, the factory farms would be in trouble. USA farm products are a renewable resource every year and are in need of being protected. The WTO pact could give the farmers a third world status and not protect our agriculture base. Food is essential for life. Be very careful.

I agree with the comment on World Government. Agriculture is one of our country's resources that can be renewed every year and our government wants to just give our products away. At one time oil and corn use to rate close to the same price. This morning I sold a bushel of corn for $1.99 with a market price of $2.58. Cargill needs $.59 for each bushel for shipping and such. Do not think the small farmer has any power in the control of anything. We grow it and sell the corn for less than it costs to raise it. That is why we have not been taken over, but just wait, it will happen. Like is often said on FR, Follow the Money. When there is easy money to be made, the little farmer will soon be gone. Examples would be the pigs or cattle crammed into one tiny area called factory farming.

Don't forget all the effort that has been put in checking that everyone is wearing their seat belts.

ShopKo has the Salvation Army kettle and the ringers sitting inside their store--not in the entrance. Happy Day!

Thank you for posting this information on inhalers. The new inhalers that are being pushed on the market do not work like the older ones. It takes one half hour for the new Ventolin albuterol inhaler to work--I could be in tough shape by then. I had to stop using Serevent Diskus because most of the powder stayed in my mouth. That is not good and I did not need a medical doctor to understand the danger to my body. If it is in my mouth, it travels through the whole body. The reason we use inhalents is for the product to go right to the source. How does the gas used to propel the inhalers move into the environment if it all is inhaled into our bodies? I would like an answer to that question from the FDA. Thank you for revealing a health problem that will result in death or huge injuries to the lungs.

Is there another meaning for the F-word that is not connected with sex? The word means the sex act. That cannot be changed.

Many ladies without having had cancer or treatments were having the same maladies. This problem is not going away. Ladies are still complaining and it is just having a silicone envelope inserted into their cancer-free systems. It is a deadly product for some ladies and there should be a method to test silicone effects on the human body. The article sounded like some of the people injected with the silicone did have a successful reaction. It is sad that this was done without medical doctors.

Silicone is silicone and it does kill. We ladies that have had to endure silicone implants know the danger of the product. When it is in a silicone envelope or bag, the silicone constantly leaks out into the human body. I had one for nine years to replace a cancerous breast. After eleven years from removal of the implant, I am overcoming some of its harmful effects.

I have an 11 x 8 1/2 inch two page, front and back, lovely colored leaflet telling about the best Senate candidate for education, paid for by the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. His name is Paul Wellstone of Minnesota!! It states that Norm Coleman supports private school vouchers and charter schools. My view is that Paul has been in office for 8 years with President Clinton, D., and the same educational problems are still there. Why are the teacher unions sending out that kind of material and is it legal? It must be very expensive.