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April 8, 2006
Volume 4, Number 7
ISSN 1554-6330

In this issue:

1. Carpenter Country
2. Top Drawer Article
3. Top Drawer Tips
4. Top Drawer Book Review
5. Top Drawer Satire

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CARPENTER COUNTRY
What's Happening in Our Neck of the Human Experience

 

It’s almost Easter and here in Carpenter Country we have a chocoholic who can hardly wait. He’s the one who scoffed when the results of clinical trials reported chocolate was bad for your health. And his gleeful laugh echoed around the neighborhood when newer reports stated - not true – chocolate’s the best thing you can do for yourself.

In the weeks before Easter, candy makers produce over 85 million chocolate Easter bunnies, and there’s a good possibility our chocoholic has downed almost that many. The bunny’s ears are always the first to go. Like a majority of chocolate lovers, they’re his favorite part.

But he’s not fussy. He’ll drool over any Easter basket filled with buttercreams, caramels, marshmallows or peanuts, as long as those confections are wrapped in chocolate.

Candy, home-made and store bought, has a long history and sales are hardly sluggish. Last fall, on Halloween, a big day for candy lovers, we suggested he might do better spending his money on stocks issued by one or two sugarcoated companies.

He contemplated the thought until February. Then, while eyeing the last sweet in his Valentine’s box, he told us there were chocolate holidays in every month and he planned to commemorate them all - which meant there would be no funds left to buy shares in anything. He also mentioned he’d soon be celebrating the birth date of anything chocolate.

Since the candy industry brings out hundreds of new treats every year such an endeavor will keep him busy until he’s too old to chew.

To limit the chance of him overdosing, we’re stocking up on licorice.

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TOP DRAWER ARTICLE

The Good Neighbor Program
by
HL Carpenter

 

Even if the experts are right about the cooling of the housing market, home prices are still too high for many. But if you’re a professional public servant, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) may have a house you can afford.

Read the entire article here

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TOP DRAWER TIPS
Topics and Tidbits

 

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TOP DRAWER BOOK REVIEW

by
HL Carpenter

 

FutureThink
by Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown
ISBN 0-13-185674-X
286 pages; hardcover; $24.99
Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2006

What’s going to happen tomorrow? How about twenty-five years from now?

Don’t know? Neither do the authors of FutureThink, though they’re willing to put forward more than a few theories.

Read the entire review here

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TOP DRAWER SATIRE

Star Warnings
by
HL Carpenter

 

Reaching for the stars can be dangerous to your health, and the Association of Infinite Mediocrity (AIM) wants you to stop immediately.

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