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To: Dorine Essey who wrote (3167)	2/28/2002 3:47:30 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 5185

I know, according to Bush and his men, there is no greenhouse effect, nor Silent Spring, nor environmental impact when oil drilling begins in Alaska. After all, extinction of a species is no longer a problem with the advent of cloning. Unless, it's the human species. Perhaps we will go the way of the dinosaur if one of these skirmishes around the world turns nuclear, or "nucular" as Bush would say.

To: Dorine Essey who wrote (3167)	2/28/2002 6:09:39 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5185

Dorine, a sad story...This past Christmas, I was rushing around trying to get some holiday shopping done. It was cold and wet in the parking lot as I was loading up my car. I heard a quiet sobbing coming from the walkway by the mall entrance. The crying was coming from a poorly dressed boy of about 12 years old. He was short and thin. He had no coat. He was just wearing a flannel shirt to protect him from the cold chill. Oddly enough, he was holding a ten dollar bill in his hand. Thinking that he had gotten lost from his parents, I asked him what was wrong. He told me his sad story. He said that he had 2 brothers and 1 sister and his mother worked two full time jobs. She made very little money to support her family. Nevertheless, she had managed to save twenty dollars to buy her children some Christmas presents. The young boy had been dropped off by his mother on her way to work. He was to use the twenty dollars to buy presents for all his siblings and save just enough to take the bus home. He had not even entered the mall when an older boy grabbed one of the ten dollar bills and disappeared into the mall. "Why didn't you scream for help?" I asked. The boy said, "I did." "And nobody came to help you?" I queried. The boy stared at the sidewalk and sadly shook his head. "How loud did you scream?" I inquired. The soft-spoken boy looked up and meekly whispered, "Help me!" I realized that absolutely no one could have heard that poor boy cry for help. So I grabbed his other ten dollar bill and ran to my car. Happy holidays everyone! Signed, Kenneth Lay Enron CEO