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...transaction volume has remained strong even as spending declines; for the first time ever, in 2006, U.S. consumers made more debit purchases than credit charges. The funds may be pre-paid or come directly from checking accounts, but the debit cards are often Visa-branded. And because it's easier to obtain a debit card than a credit card, even people who have never qualified for a credit card before are enjoying the convenience of going cash-free...
...becoming vegetarian and...still like to eat healthy and environmentally sound food.” The growing number of vegetarians have Harvard Law School student Lauren T. Ciacco to thank for the possibility of this meatless mecca. “My campaign here has been to make it easier to be a vegetarian and to change people’s minds about what vegetarian foods can taste like,” says Ciacco, a member of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. “Zen Burger is a great way to do that because it makes eating vegetarian tasty...
...affiliation is another particularly sensitive issue for those in a conflict situation. Conflict tends to pull parties into “camps” and “tribes” that assume an us and a threatening other. This can lead to increased violence; it becomes much easier to injure or kill an adversary than a friend...
...coping with the danger My main experiences walking around here is you act like you're in an episode of The Sopranos, that's sometimes how the rules are here. And if you imagine yourself in that [scenario], it becomes a lot easier to understand how things work here ... You know it's dangerous here, but you kind of take a dark sense of humor toward it, and just try to laugh off some things...
...soldier who, in his earlier tour, was pulled out of Iraq to Kuwait and they were on the plane to go home, and they had to turn back around to Baghdad. So we were actually kind of happy that the situation had happened, it became a lot easier to accept it, and deal with it, and tell our families ahead of time...