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The American Dream Vs. the European Dream

By Jeremy Rifkin | Thursday, August 18, 2005

As Jeremy Rifkin sees it, the American and European dreams are - at their core - about two diametrically opposed ideas of freedom and security. While Americans have long valued autonomy as a component of ( Read more... )

Today is the first day this summer where it's truly unbearingly HOT out here at the beaches.

So hot that I wish I had one of these little fans on my desk. Or maybe a sparsely-clad personal fanner standing next to me? Hmmm... Yummy thought there, hehe. I'm in a road trip mood and for the occasion have reserved a Sebring Convertible which will be ( Read more... )

Your Power Color Is Lime Green
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I'd rather be at the beach but not the local one but some tropical one, far off from the western hemisphere. Again, I am thinking I need a cultural fix. In a place where the aim is not to artificially make everything the same so it can fit the category "AMERICAN" but rather to TRULY acknowledge and respect differences for what they are and simply ( Read more... )