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Paying forward
I suggest you hold on to your funds for a while. Given the current climate, it's not hard to imagine that a good use for it (a la the September 11 funds) may emerge in the not-too-distant future. I'm someone in DC's ground zero who has not bought tarps or duct tape, but this kind of thing is, shall we say, on my mind. An alternative is a donation to United for a Fair Economy (http://www.ufenet.org). I just read about this organization in the UUWorld (the periodical for Unitarian Universalists). The founder is a grandson of Oscar Meyer; he gave his half-million dollar trust fund away in his mid-twenties, and he now works with Bill Gates' father on dealing with the gap between the richest and the poorest in this country. Interesting stuff! Finally, a quickie bug report. I was unable to choose either "District of Columbia" or "Washington, DC" from the state pull-down in the registration process. I may not have put all the US territories on the list (how many visitors from Guam would you expect?). But it might be nice to include the nation's capital :). Beth Mazur IDblog: http://idblog.org
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