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If You’re Driving a Lemon, Get Your Own “Pit Crew�

When software company COO Don Simons heads out on the track with his Radical formula-one type racecar, the last thing he's worried about is if he's driving a lemon. Such vehicles are the most pampered in the worldâ€"and Simons' skill combined with the pre... Read >

Tax Tips: Avoid IRS Tax Problems by Correctly Determining Business Expenses

Probably one of the most controversial areas of tax law for small business and the self employed is correctly determining what a legitimate business expense is. You can avoid IRS tax problems with a few tax tips from a tax attorney or CPA to sort this out... Read >

Belize – A Fishing Paradise

Belize vacations provide opportunities for world-class fishing. Spin, fly and troll fishing are available all year long and the abundance of game fish guarantees excellent sport. River estuaries, inlets and mouths are known for their tarpon, snook an... Read >

Home Staging Ideas: Staging a Bedroom

When money is tight, it is difficult to justify spending it on things that would make your home more beautiful. But when your home is on the market, it is imperative that each space looks its best. One room you can update and enhance is the bedroom. It's ... Read >

Defining the Middle East All Over Again

Defining the Middle East has long been an awkward task. Robert Kaplan, writing in the NYT, believes it should include a much greater area and that the Mumbai terrorist attacks lend credence to his position. Certainly, there is confusion over what comprise... Read >

In Mandatory Palestine 60 Years Ago

In April 1947 Britain requested the transfer of its Mandate responsibilities for Palestine to the United Nations. In November the UN passed Resolution 181 advocating the partition of Palestine, and the future of Jerusalem was in the balance. The resolutio... Read >

Critical Junctures in the Middle East Conflict

From both Arab and Israeli perspectives, 1967 became the defining date in the more than century old Middle East conflict. More so even than the 1947-49 Palestinian exodus, categorized recently by Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, as "ethnic cleansing" and kn... Read >

Identity and Ideology vis-à-vis Palestine

Over the past century, not only have Palestinians and Zionists fought on Palestine's terrain of battle, but so have Turks, British and Jordanians. Each has had reason to invest itself in the region. Whether it was early-twentieth-century fading Ottoma... Read >

The Dangers Posed by the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The danger that the Arab-Israeli conflict, specifically the Jerusalem Question, poses to the peace of the world in the twenty-first century is not new. What is today Israel and Palestine, on the narrow strip of land between the Mediterranean coast and the... Read >

Family and Relationships: Forgiveness… (or Something Like It)

In January 2008 a Michigan man was sentenced for the particularly cruel murder of his former girlfriend and their newborn daughter. His girlfriend's sister was quoted as saying, "On behalf of [our] family, we forgive this man, because through forgiveness ... Read >

A Vision for Life

It's hard to believe that Vision is in its 10th year of publication! About five years ago we produced our first anthology issue, in which we brought together a number of timely and timeless articles from those first years. We now offer a second such sampl... Read >

David Hulme: Folly Marches On

In her fine work on the human proclivity to avoid available alternatives and persist in behaviors contrary to self interest (The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam), the late American historian Barbara Tuchman chronicled several examples of self destruc... Read >

Topical Skin Care for Anti-Aging Can Get a Boost With Resveratrol

You may have heard that the incidence of heart disease in France is far lower than in the U.S. Scientists spent a long time trying to figure out how that could possibly be when the traditional French diet - lots of cheese, bread, sauces, wine with every m... Read >

What is Truth?

In a famous scene, the Roman governor asks the all-but-condemned man, "What is truth?" It`s a thoroughly inappropriate, cynical response at the most critical moment for the accused man. After all, his life is hanging by a thread. The question rests on ... Read >

David Hulme- Men As Gods: Part 5

The early history of the city of Pergamos is somewhat obscure. The Greek historian Xenophon (ca. 428-354 B.C.E.) mentions that sometime after 490 the deposed king of Sparta, Demaratus, became an advisor to Xerxes. Further, he says that the Spartan king`s ... Read >