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27
Mar
Most people have heard about the Rihanna and Chris Brown story; supposedly he hit her with an umbrella (ironic, I know) from inside a limo and caused damage to her face and neck. If you have seen the pictures, it is devastating and I do not believe anyone deserves to be treated like this. Domestic violence [...]
21
Mar
Ladies and gentleman, here at The Nearby Future, we would love nothing more than to run rampant with glitter and turn our homepage into a tinsel-y mess of fantastically sparkling pictures that resembles a Christmas tree decorated by a four year old. But we don’t. We consider glitter on a homepage a sign of weakness. [...]
19
Mar
We’re in a recession. Can’t you smell the desperation in the air? If you want to tell which companies aren’t doing so hot by simply perusing one of their products, count the number of adjectives. The more adjectives, the more debt the company has. A company goes through a verb phrase before they unconsciously turn [...]
11
Mar
The nation’s had it’s fair share of misleading health trends, and it’s great to see things beginning to shift. With the high fructose corn syrup commercials, it had seemed as if corporate America had once again staved off the health research and all movements towards healthy eating. But all is not lost, as there is [...]
2
Mar
If you take a look at a modern day textbook, you’ll find a disturbing trend: they pack a lot of useless information in a sentence that could be written ANY other way and it would make more sense. Example: “…Isotopes are atoms of an element that have the same number of protons but a different [...]