BREVITAS

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OUTLYING PRECINCTS

I took this "survey" and my top 2 candidates were Kuccinch and Gravel.......very
interesting results..............check it out for yourself...............PEACE.................Scott

FIND YOUR CANDIDATE BY ANSWERING A FEW QUESTIONS
http://www.dehp.net/candidate/index.php

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GREAT THOUGHTS OF GEORGE BUSH

It's a -- it's, we have an amazing country, where people's instinct,
first instinct, is to help save life, and there's a lot of peoples'
first instincts here in the Twin Cities was to save the lives of
somebody who was hurtin', and I know the people of this community thank
those, their fellow citizens who did that. -- George Bush, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, Aug. 4, 2007

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ECOLOGY

TREE HUGGERS - A group of researchers at the Polytechnic University in
Madrid are developing a system to cool [glass] windows by adding a 1 cm
slot through which the water circulates on the inside to absorb the heat
of the sunbeams. The spin-off project is called Inteliglass. With its
installation, buildings with glass facades could save up to 70% on air
conditioning.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/double_glazing.php

MARK CLAYTON, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - Tromping through a
Massachusetts state forest, Brad Smith spots an old stump with dead
shoots and one lone, green sprout - a sad but not uncommon remnant of a
once-proud species - the American chestnut tree. Except for a few mature
trees, the species has struggled for 50 years to survive. It does that
in the same way: Stumps send up sprouts that are quickly attacked by the
same invasive blight that wiped out about 3.5 billion chestnut trees
between 1904 and 1950. . . Now, however, an American chestnut revival
may be imminent. Scientists using traditional plant breeding techniques
are on the verge of a breakthrough. In fact, Smith smiles and shares a
little secret: the "holy grail" of American chestnut trees - a hybrid
supertree fully resistant to the blight - is alive and growing down
south. Hidden on a country road that winds through rural Meadowview,
Va., is a 93-acre plot of ground that holds the future of the American
chestnut: about 120 hybrid saplings. The trees - going on two years old
and four feet tall - are considered "fully blight resistant" and are
thriving.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0807/p02s01-sten.html

NY TIMES - Almost all municipal water in America is so good that nobody
needs to import a single bottle from Italy or France or the Fiji
Islands. Meanwhile, if you choose to get your recommended eight glasses
a day from bottled water, you could spend up to $1,400 annually. The
same amount of tap water would cost about 49 cents. . . Water bottles,
like other containers, are made from natural gas and petroleum. The
Earth Policy Institute in Washington has estimated that it takes about
1.5 million barrels of oil to make the water bottles Americans use each
year. That could fuel 100,000 cars a year instead. And, only about 23
percent of those bottles are recycled, in part because water bottles are
often not included in local redemption plans that accept beer and soda
cans. Add in the substantial amount of fuel used in transporting water,
which is extremely heavy, and the impact on the environment is anything
but refreshing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/opinion/01wed2.html?ex=
1187150400&en=1854b5eeca499d6b&ei=5070


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FURTHERMORE. . .

GREAT THOUGHTS: Today's kids are tomorrow's mid career professionals -
NASA official

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