Following a series of political assassinations of Afghanistan's political leaders, the United States' military officers have seen dramatic improvement in securing the country. Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden, President Obama announced the hasty drawdown of the extra "surge" troops he ordered to finish off the al-Qaeda regime. However, there have been several recent acts of violence that have some officials worried. Following the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's half-brother, a suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters, killing twelve policemen and a ch...

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U.S. security has seen a dramatic increase since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Although the airlines have been cooperative so far, British Airways is finally voicing its frustration as the security becomes ever so tighter. As many of the traveling public would agree, chairman of British Airways, Martin Broughton, criticized the airport checks proposed by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration for being "completely redundant." At an annual conference of the U.K. Airport Operators Association in London, Broughton explained that the TSA is requiring foreign airports to increase checks on U...

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... a turn for the worse after the 911 call was played to jurors on September 29th. Murray chose not to call for an ambulance for nearly thirty minutes after he first realized that Jackson needed medical attention - a fact that prosecutors are calling an attempt at a cover-up (Los Angeles Times). Jackson's security guard, Alberto Alvarez, took the stand against Murray, claiming that when he walked in the room, he ... saw Jackson's lifeless body on the floor and Murray acting incompetent. Murray ... . However, instead of calling an ambulance right away, he collected medical vials and pill bo...

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... of certain states from Georgia, including South Ossetia and Abkhazia. According to the Associated Press, NATO came out in support of Georgia after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev refused to comply with a cease-fire order brokered for the two nations by France. The conflict is far from over, as debate over who started it in the first place continues. According to Georgian officials, Russia started it by mobilizing ... tens of thousands of troops near South Ossetia rebel strongholds, supposedly as part of a military exercise. Once the exercise was complete, the Russian forces stayed on....

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... ). "It's the same story with a few crucial additions, the most important of which is you," Rowling said in her announcement on YouTube that ran simultaneously with her news conference in London. "Just as the experiences of reading requires that the imaginations of the author and the reader work together to create the story, so Pottermore will be built, in part, by you, the reader. The digital generation will ... be available as ebooks for the first time, in five languages and more to come, and as audiobooks in an online store on the website. Although rumors circulated that a sequel to se...

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... now those involved with the case are not so sure. There are unanswered questions and details that do not add up. Experts and those involved in the case of the anthrax killer have yet to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Narrowing It Down To catch the killer, the FBI subpoenaed samples of a particular strain of anthrax from labs around the world. They examined these samples for four mutations that ... would help identify a match to the strain that was used to kill five people in 2001. The first sample received from Dr. ... Bruce Ivins was not properly submitted and was destroyed. He was r...

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... , parodies, and even some serious discussion. In Great Britain, in October of 2007, a London High Court judge in an uncommon ruling on what secondary school children could be shown in the classroom determined there were nine key errors in scientific fact. Mr. Justice Burton was quoted as saying that some of these points he determined as untrue had been "in the context of alarmism and exaggeration," according to ... Mr. Gore's critics are and will continue to be proven wrong at calling him an "alarmist." The following evidence is likely just the "tip of the iceberg." The Associated Press ...

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... MRSA. MRSA, as most will remember, is a type of staph bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics, and is often found in hospitals and other health facilities. The new initiative is a plan to reach out to the general public in the places that they communicate most in an effort to give everyone a better understanding of how MRSA is spread, how to prevent it, and what to do ... , and using various other media sources to get the word out. It is the belief of CDC as well as other medical personnel that the more informed the public is about MRSA, the better control can be kept on its spread. "R...

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The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... Ford, Caterpillar, Procter & Gamble, and Northrop Grumman (Murphy). "It's to renew the promise of American manufacturing. To help make sure America remains in this century what we were in the last - a country that makes things. A country that out-builds and out-innovates the rest of the world," Obama said of the partnership (Lee). "Their mission is to come up with a way to get ideas ... and make our businesses more competitive," Obama said in the address, which was taped at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. During his visit, Obama was inspired by mini-robots that explored water ...

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... former prime ministers, Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak. Barak, who previously served as Defense Minister under Olmert, has requested that Olmert's recently written book be banned from publication until it is determined that the book does not contain any state secrets (Fendel). Relations began to sour when Barak forced Olmert into resignation as prime minister when accusations of financial ... and administrative impropriety began to flood in (Kalman). According to some recently published excerpts, Olmert revealed many state secrets in his books, many of which concern Barak ... -- and by that...

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... new music application that allows users to essentially create their own radio stations. Surfing the stations for a good song just went out of style. Can't live without Facebook or Flickr? The iPhone caters to all you social butterflies, too. These social media sources and others are available right in the palm of your hand, so you can take your network of friends, family and ... And you thought having a laptop made your life mobile! The iPhone has made the globe just a little bit smaller, too. In a successful effort to keep pace with the "trend to optimize geographic locations for [its]...

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... this year, a showdown between government officials and pirates saw the latter holding a Ukrainian ship ransom for $20 million. That money, which has been as high as $30 million in some cases, has helped to finance the war in Somalia, according to some reports. Groups like Al-Shabaab, which the U.S. had designated a terrorist organization, are on the receiving end of some of these funds. According to Roger ... Middleton, author of a key report on the situation, "at the moment it's a ... been forced to temporarily suspend food deliveries to the area. In the meantime, Canada is now escorti...

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... a juggling act that requires open communication, budgeting of your time, and stress management. You will need to have all your ducks in a row to successfully pull off school and work at the same time. It Is All About Communication Talk to your employer. Let them know that you are going back to school and how ... this will affect your work. Will you need a special schedule? Will this schooling make you more valuable to the company? Playing up this angle will make for an employer who is glad to do whatever it takes to help you succeed. You will also have to talk to your family or ... the ...

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... , and it has been decided by those in charge that the local organizations might need a little more training in drug trafficking, racketeering, extortion, etc. So the higher ups in the organization are sending those that can train in these areas, which of course does not look good for the Charlotte area. "There seems to be a concerted effort to better organize the gang here in Charlotte," says FBI Special Agent Ray Duda ... . "And that effort was initiated by leaders in El Salvador." The MS13s are not your ... ...

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Millions of hotels across the United States nonchalantly discard their visitors' once-used bars of soap every day. In fact, hundreds of millions of soap bars are discarded each year in North American alone. As relatively wealthy Americans, no has thought anything of it - until Derreck Kayongo launched the Global Soap Project (Ruffins). The project began in the early 1990s after Kayongo's first hotel stay in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Ugandan native panicked when he noticed his bathroom soap was being replenished every day despite the fact that he only got one or two uses out of the bars (...

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Protestors in Cairo finally hit their tipping point after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named a vice president, Omar Suleiman - the first to be appointed since Mubarak took office nearly thirty years ago. Frustration has been building for several years about Mubarak's reign, which most Egyptians see as corrupt, heavy-handed, and neglectful of increasing poverty. Protestors were enraged at their president's move, ... which they see as an attempt to set up a successor (Hadid). Since the announcement, Cairo has been engulfed in chaos. Looting and lawlessness ran rampant through the streets. M...

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... sludge, Zoltan Bakonyi, is being questioned on the suspicion of public endangerment causing multiple deaths and environmental damage (Yahoo! News). The sludge burst from its reservoir last week, killing eight people. The European Union and environmental groups are worried that the sludge could spread down the Danube River, resulting in long-term consequences for many nations. Emergency workers are currently trying to ... build temporary barriers to slow down the sludge before it reaches the Danube River. They will then ... scoop out as much as possible. The idea is that the sludge will...

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... ,000 cash while the other six are being held without bail. Two attorneys, Paul Horowitz and Fred Bittlingmeyer, represented all eight suspects at the hearing, although they do not expect to represent all eight during the entire process (The Berkshire Eagle). A ninth suspect, Rudy Vargas-Perez, is being searched for. Vargas-Perez is believed to have taken part in one of the torture sessions that ... involved slashing the victims with box cutters, burning them with cigarettes, sodomizing them, ... and forcing a victim to choose between a bat or a pipe to be beaten with. Despite rumors tha...

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... a stink. Their sets will merely become trash. One overall affect, then of the decision to do away with analog television for the United States is that landfills will pick up about 6 million energy hogging televisions and over the course of a few years, electronic sellers will benefit from a boom in the sales of converter boxes and new televisions. Television is a privilege, not a right ... . Change is coming, and as the car replaced the horse, and faster cars replaced the model T, change is on the horizon for television. Its affect will make TV better. Information ... will travel faster,...

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... ask the candidates the questions they wanted answered. Never before has that been done. Because YouTube is such an enormously popular website across a diverse demographic and because the new arrangement allowed for the people's voices to be heard, more and more people got involved. People who wouldn't have normally watched a traditional debate, where the questions are pre-determined by political experts tuned in to hear the candidates weigh in ... on what the American people had to say. John Horrigan, associate director of research ... ...

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... to monitor and attempt to decrease their contributions to greenhouse gasses and the greater problem of global warming. Plans, Plankton, And Trees People who produce less in the way of greenhouse gasses or who take steps to ameliorate the situation could be rewarded monetarily. For example, a number of landowners in Arkansas have received $126,000 for their trees. Trees can "sequester" a certain amount of carbon dioxide and ... take a step in the right direction. This program rewards individuals whose land makes such contributions. Planktos ... ...

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... jobs have been lost and many have lost their homes or are in danger of losing their homes, it seems that the bulk of Americans are more plagued by the promise of woe than the reality thereof. Internationally, the economic news for the travel industry is even better. 43 percent of international respondents to the same survey stated that they saw economic conditions as "terrible" and ... booked, many high end hotels, such as the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, are offering room upgrades for a nominal fee, which fill rooms, but which in turn also book excellent accommodations for rates...

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... World War II. They were meant to help citizens provide for themselves in an attempt to help the war effort. In fact, almost one third of the vegetables consumed in the United States in 1943 came from these Victory Gardens. This time the effort is aimed at helping the environment. What Is A Victory Garden? A victory garden is just a garden, but, at the same time, it is so much more. It is ... being transported from where it was produced to where you find it in your own neighborhood. The cost is measured in terms of miles traveled and the gallons of fuel it takes to transport it. On avera...

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