GRAPHIC BOATING  PHOTO.

THIS IS A PICTURE OF A MAN

WITH JUST SECONDS

LEFT TO  LIVE

(FRIGHTENING !)

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and that’s when the fight started…

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She asked Joey, What did you do on the weekend?”

Joey replied, ” I went to see Nana”.

“No.” the teacher said,”You went to see your Grandma. That’s people talk. Bobby, What did you do on the weekend?”

Bobby replied, ” I went for a ride on the choochoo.” No, you went for a ride on the train.”

“Little Johnny, what did you do on the weekend?”

He replied, “I stayed home and read a book.”

“That’s nice, what was the name of the book?”

Little Johnny thought for a while and then said,

“Winnie the Shit!”

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BY Annie Leonard  the Director of the Story of Stuff Project and author of the book, The Story of Stuff (Free Press, March 2010).

Walking to work one day I wanted to listen to the news, so I popped into Radio Shack. I found a cute little green radio for $4.99. Pleased with my bargain, I stood in line to pay, but then started wondering: how could $4.99 cover the cost of extracting the raw materials, manufacturing the parts, assembling the radio, and getting it into my hands?

Whenever I go to buy something I get sidetracked, thinking of how it got here. It’s an occupational hazard. I spent a decade traveling around the world, visiting the factories where our stuff is made and the dumps where it goes when we don’t want it any more. What I learned makes it impossible for me to look at anything and not see the journey it made through the global take-make-waste system.

The metal in that $4.99 radio was probably mined in Africa. The petroleum that went into the plastic probably was pumped from Iraq, and the plastic itself produced in China. The packaging came from forests in Brazil or Canada. Maybe the parts were then shipped across the ocean to Mexico, where some 15-year-old in a maquiladora assembled the radio. There it was put on a truck or a train and shipped to a distribution center in Southern California, then 500 miles north to my local store.

Four-ninety-nine? That wouldn’t pay for the shelf space it took up until I came along, let alone the salary for the guy who helped me pick it out.

That’s when I realized: I didn’t pay for the radio. So who did?

A study currently underway for the United Nations is calculating the cost of pollution and other environmental damage caused by the 3,000 largest publicly held corporations in the world. The study, which will be published this summer, has found that the cost of environmental damage by these companies is $2.2 trillion, or more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable. This includes greenhouse gas emissions, other pollution, and water degradation. The final amount is likely to increase once additional costs — like toxic waste — are incorporated.

Top Pakistan stars Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan have been told they cannot represent their country again.

The Pakistan Cricket Board’s inquiry into the tour of Australia found the pair had been involved in “infighting which… brought down the whole team”.

Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Shoaib Malik each face one-year bans and big fines.

Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmal also face heavy fines while their conduct will be strictly monitored during a six-month probationary period.

The PCB has implemented the recommendations of an inquiry committee formed to evaluate Pakistan’s dismal performance against Australia during the winter, when they lost all nine internationals.

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