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To add to the growing tension between Iran and the United States, members of the Iranian Parliament's human rights committee have taken a strong, public stand against the planned execution of a woman in Virginia. According to a British newspaper, "the parliamentary human rights committee said her case reflected ...
... eyes and ears, some dancehall artists chose to start using dirty lyrics in their songs. The songs started to glorify the underworld, where crime is pastime and women are something to be objectified. Before long, dancehall music was the kind of thing you didn't want your children to listen to, and it was the kind of thing you hid from your parents. In the spirit of staying in pace with the "in" crowd shocking numbers of young people jumped on ... this grittier dancehall bandwagon. The lyrics of this new revolution supported, and even praised, violence and the demeaning of women - and, in...
... 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 be so diluted by the time it reaches the river that it ... won't be harmful anymore. However, the heavy metal t...
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...
... to be proven wrong at calling him an "alarmist." The following evidence is likely just the "tip of the iceberg." The Associated Press reported on August 27 of this year that "sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about thirty years." Scientists characterize this fact as a "global warming tipping point" and speculate that by the end of the season, it could be a record-breaking year. With ... this trend, within 5-10 years, the Arctic could be free of ice in the summer ... ...
... the end of each summer. Today's levels are down about 40% from those numbers. A research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado stated that "Seven million square kilometers roughly corresponds to an area of the lower 48 United States." Imagine if, back in the early 1980s, the lower 48 states were covered in sea ice in the summer and now, the sea ice east of the Mississippi River is gone. That's the ... reality the polar bears are facing. ...
... words, specifically addressing their unique situation and challenges. As rap artists often resort to drugs, sex, or violence as the means to resolve the conflicts in their songs and videos, adolescents often model this behavior, seeing it as a proven path to getting what they want. This is particularly troubling in young African-American girls, aged 14 - 18, who watch between six or seven hours of rap ... music videos a day in many cases. This specific demographic group is the most at-risk as they ... rappers including Kanye West are lyrics which denigrate women to sex objects, utilitar...
... ? Not likely. Despite the woes over the decline in the economy, travel is down only slightly compared to previous years. In fact, according to a study by an independent group representing travel agents, while 68 percent of Americans would describe the economic conditions as "terrible", only 22% of that 68% has actually cancelled a flight, or plans to reschedule at a cheaper time. While even the slightest downturn is unexpected, the travel industry has ... . As such, to make sure they are fully booked, many high end hotels, such as the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, are offering room u...
Believing himself to be a victim of a smear campaign, presidential candidate Herman Cain suddenly recalled the financial settlement he was a part of years before. In the late 1990's, as the head of the National Restaurant Association, Cain battled two sexual harassment claims involving two different women, although he later remembered the first accusation and denies remembering the second accusation altogether (Oliphant). "My general counsel said this started out where (an ... instance, but when pressed later by radio host, Laura Ingraham, Cain suddenly remembered the instance. "The word sett...
... getting this money? If you look at what has happened already, it's the executives and their managers. AIG paid for theirs to go to a couple of luxury conventions. All of them are using "retention" to explain multimillion dollar bonuses for the very CEO's who caused this problem in the first place. Why on earth do they want to "retain" these crooks? So far, the ones paying the taxes have had no relief ... from the scheme. We are left in the hole, paying for it for the rest of our lives, while those who are benefitting loll ... around in million dollar mansions and fly in private jets to...
... 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 five-six problem [on a scale of one to ten] with the potential to be a seven or eight You're lookin at nine ... been forced to temporarily suspend food deliveries to the area. In the meantime, Canada is now escorting WFP deliveries, but that will end later this year, and ...
... prices have her husband looking for part-time work because he drives a daily 60-mile round trip to work. There's no talk of a summer vacation this year. She's not alone. Whether a household has one or four members, the double-digit rate rise in the cost of groceries this year is eating up discretionary spending, boston.com writer Robert Gavin says. Milk prices ... families typically spend three times more on food than gasoline. That's not to say the increase in gasoline prices the past two years isn't hurting consumers. Last week, a gallon of low-grade gasoline cost $3.69 in central Ill...
With the devastation of BP's recent oil spill still heavy on our minds, China released news of a similar environmental tragedy on July 16th after a pipeline owned by China National Petroleum Corporation exploded in the Yellow Sea, immediately sparking a 15-hour fire consisting of 100-foot flames (Uncoverage). China's crisis is one of a lesser degree than the crisis in the Gulf, according to the Associated Press, who reported that the spill had only ... spread over 165 square miles, just a small area compared to the 2,700 square miles covered by BP's oil spill (Adams). MSNBC ... ...
The Notre Dame campus is still in shock over the sudden death of Declan Sullivan, a junior studying film marketing and television and theater (Gay). Sullivan was filming a football practice atop a scissor lift, a portable hydraulic lift that allows people to videotape team drills from as high as 40 feet above practice field, when the lift collapsed from high winds (Auman). The afternoon that Sullivan died winds reached up to 51 mph in South Bend, according to the National Weather Service. Students even struggled to walk to class (Hall). Hours before his death, Sullivan tweeted about his predic...
... of a threat oil industries, congress, and the white house now want to allow offshore drilling. Let's look at the Georges Bank area off Cape Cod Massachusetts. According to geologists there are approximately 57 million barrels of oil lying there beneath the seabed. Currently Georges Bank is a protected area due to overfishing in the 1970's. This area's ecosystem is already in a delicate state with only the haddock bouncing back from being over fished ... buying money with a credit card! It makes no sense. First, it will be at least 10 years before we see any output from these new oil pla...
... peaks your interest, and you'd like to know more, find your own sources for the information. Learn to paraphrase. One professor at Middlebury College in Vermont had several papers turned in to him with the exact same phrase in them. All of the papers listed Wikipedia as the source. If 100 people in class are writing on the same subject, and they all use Wikipedia, this is bound to happen. If you want a failing grade on your ... essay, this is a good way to get it. While ... ...
... vice-president pitted against the possibility of an African-American president - both potential history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too. The Internet has, it seems, forever changed the way Americans experience their political lives. The Internet has infiltrated our ... everyday lives in countless ways: We bank online, we shop online, we work online, and we form social relationships online. And, in...
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...
... of Rotary International's Indian polio program, says that many residents, particularly Muslims, think the vaccines are actually chemicals to sterilize their children. Muslim cleric Mohammad Omar, uses the mosque's loudspeaker to spread the message, "I recommend you get polio drops for your young children today." (Magnier). Omar, a highly trusted official in the community, also has another motive in spreading his message. "And it's not just for them," he says. "If ... someone gets polio and I couldn't prevented it, I must answer on judgement day" (Magnier). Furthermore, residents who kno...
... residents heard heavy explosions and sporadic gunfire early in the morning, although they were unsure what caused the noises. The noises were reportedly coming from the Hasabah neighborhood, home to Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar, leader of the al-Hashid tribe whose forces oppose the government. The previous day security forces set fire to tents and tore through demonstrators' camps in Freedom Square in Taiz with bulldozers (Sudam). A government spokesman, Abdu Ganadi, said protestors ... Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are gradually gaining power from the chaos in Yemen. Both the United States a...
Jennifer Mee, a Floridian teenager who once gained fame as the "hiccup girl," is now in the spotlight for a different reason. Hee was recently charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting and armed robbery of Shannon Griffin. Griffin's body was found with "several gunshots to his upper body." Mee brought Griffin to a home where two others, Laron Raiford and Lamont Newton, robbed him at gunpoint (Flam). "Jennifer Mee lured the victim to the address...
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...
... facts should not go together" (Schneiderman). Emanuel also targeted the city's community college and job training programs and encouraged them to train workers to succeed in today's modern jobs but also in the jobs of tomorrow. Notoriously known for his aggressive brand of politics, Emanuel promised to create the conditions needed to foster investment, but said the real responsibility lies with the corporations to do their part and actually create jobs (Schneiderman). "I will ... make the tough decisions that are necessary," he said. "I will straighten ... ...
... Their money is spread into things like the loans on each other's houses and businesses. What Jimmy doesn't talk about is a thing called "Money factoring". Money factoring is very complicated and runs on a variety of algorithms, regulated by a lot of policy and more law than you even want to think about, but the concept is simple enough to grasp. Money factoring essentially makes it ... possible for banks to borrow a multiple of their on-hand assets from the Federal Reserve, a private enterprise that most people errantly assume is owned by the United States Government. When a bank has a m...
... effort to keep pace with the "trend to optimize geographic locations for [its] users", the iPhone features applications that are capable of putting your very existence into context. Well, geographically, anyway. No matter where in the world you are, you are just a few clicks away from the nearest restaurant or clothing store. Don't know how to get there? The iPhone has you covered there, too: it will provide you with a map and directions to get you where you want to ... go. Perhaps the only PC feature that an iPhone can't match (yet) is the ability to cut and paste data from one place t...
