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POPSNOW is the Time to Have More Children! I had my annual physical a couple days ago with a new doctor. She said I was healthy, but that’s not all. She asked me about my plans for more children (I already have a one and a half year old). “Are going to have more kids? Are you trying now? When are you going to try again?” she wanted to know.
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POPSOpen Outlook Brightens Microsoft’s Future In 2001 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called open source “a cancer.” As late as 2007, Ballmer maintained Microsoft’s stance that its intellectual property was not freely available to open source. Microsoft’s vision now includes having open source software running on top of Windows.
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POPS5 Nintendo Wii Accessories Put to the Test Besides the extra controllers we buy for the Nintendo Wii sometimes we want to buy some extra accessories to help our gaming experience with the Wii. However, with all the hundreds of accessories for the Nintendo Wii, sometimes is just hard to choose what accessories to buy. Hell, most of us don’t even know if the accessories we are buying are useful or not.
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POPSTweet a Cause - Twitterers Helping Tweet an Ill Childs Wish True LeapFish has joined forces with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to adopt an ill child’s dream and help make that dream come true. Tweet-a-Cause, a social media fundraising initiative, will give Twitter users the power to grant an ill child’s dream to go to Disneyland, one Tweet at a time.
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POPSSome Odd Facts from the Animal World Which animal grows the maximum from birth to adulthood? Though a male kangaroo can be about 7 ft. tall and weigh 90 kg, at birth they are about 2 cm tall and weigh a few grams only! After birth, the baby has to climb about 6 inches along the furs of its mother’s abdomen to reach the edge of the pouch and enter into it. It is equivalent to a human baby climbing about 10 ft.! The infant kangaroo is suckled inside its mother’s pouch, where it completes its development to emerge when it weighs more than a kg.
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POPSMagicShovels Allows You to Buy Twitter Followers As Twitter continues it’s rise in the world of social media, companies are scrambling for ways to reach consumers through the micro-blogging service. Marketing firms like MagicShovels are responding by offering a paid service that sells targeted Twitter followers to companies and individuals.
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POPSLeapFish - The Web’s New Search Engine The Web has evolved. It used to be a place where people came to just search for simple information. Now it’s a place where people come to also share information. Information today that is multi-media and more complex. Information today that is real-time and social – recommended by people who know, and people you know.
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POPSGeographical oddities Talking of USA, it is one country that significantly increased its post-independence size through purchase of land from Russia, France, Mexico, Denmark etc. It must have made the most profitable land deal in history when it purchased Alaska from Russia at a little over 7 million dollars in 1867, which comes to about $10 per sq. mile (2 cents per acre). Just imagine that Alaska accounts for 20% of total oil production in USA, not to speak of the huge reserves of natural gas, and mineral resources like coal, gold, zinc etc. and you will appreciate the magnitude of the bargain!
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POPSWhich Gadgets Are Selling: For Some Technology, Analysts Say, It’s Buyer Beware What’s hot? What’s not? And what was the last gadget you actually bought? It’s quite the challenge to keep pace with technology’s latest and greatest trends, especially with disposable income tighter than ever for so many. Which made us wonder: Despite all the flashy ads and splashy headlines, which types of consumer electronics are actually selling?
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POPSFun Facts About Tigers The creature use to roam over most parts of the world but now it is only found in some parts of Asia and Africa. Here are some facts about this great animal.
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POPSWant to Lose Weight? Try Sleeping! Sounds pretty simple right? Then why do so many of us view regular sleep as something not all that important? "I’ll just make up the sleep on the weekend" we say. Well, unfortunately studies are showing it just does not work like that when it comes to sleep...
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POPS 5 Pregnancy Myths You Never Knew xpectant mothers are magnets for unsolicited advice. Some of the advice is rude , some is helpful and the rest is based on old wives tales. Our guest bloggers today, Drs. Shawn A. Tassone and Kathryn M. Landherr, are going to help us separate fact from fiction.