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43%  
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  • Letter from a Marine in Iraq

    09/28/2004 5:43:07 PM PDT · by valleygal · 132 replies · 2,746+ views
    e-mail | Sept. 26, 2004 | Sharon Jacko
    Sharon gave me permission to post this with her name. Hello to all. Sorry I haven’t written in the last couple of days. Much going on here. I would, however, like to share something with you today. I am a firm believer that God sends us messages when we need them most. It can be in the form of a nod from someone passing you on the street, someone smiling at you when you are down, or in the written word from a page in a book, a message on a billboard, or the spoken word. The messages can be...
  • The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

    11/14/2003 9:42:50 AM PST · by em2vn · 218 replies · 854+ views
    Fast Company magazine ^ | november 2003 | charles fishman
    A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.