... commissioned a 900-page report, prompting a conference at the National Assembly in 2000. In November, the company issued a statement expressing its "regrets" and "sorrow" for its involvement in the Holocaust. A month ago, the company signed a partnership with the Holocaust memorial based in Paris to develop joint school programs about World War II (The Age). Survivors of the Holocaust are furious about Pepy's apology, claiming that the SNCF President did not accept full responsibility ... car and one bucket for us to relieve ourselves in. It was all done with cruelty and deception and p...

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... minutes. And there were neither breath sounds nor heartbeats. Rigor mortis had set in, the baby's lips and skin were bluish gray and there was corneal clouding of the eyes. I always take very seriously pronouncing the death of any patient." However, the baby's rigor mortis might have been the cause of Philistin's belief that the baby was not dead. Philistin said, "My son is not dead. When I tried ... system is far less refined than America's. Court cases are often decided by the media and because the media in Haiti has already painted the case with political undertones, Waggoner faces a...

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... a 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 ... colleagues right along with you. 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 opti...

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... tortured him as well. Then, they invited the man, who one of the recruits confessed to having had relations with, to a house party. When he showed up, they burned, beat, tortured, and sodomized him with a miniature baseball bat (The Berkshire Eagle). The gang then went to the older man's house, tied up his brother, and stole three cell phones, $1,000 in cash and a 52-inch television (ABC News ... ). The eight suspects include Ildefonzo Mendez, 23; Elmer Confresi, 23; David Rivera, 21; Steven Caraballo, Denis Peitars, Nelson Falu ... and Bryan Almonte, all 17; and Brian Cepeda, 16. They w...

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If you buy a man a horse and call it transportation in a world full of cars and freeways, you do him no favors. This is the sort of thinking that is killing analog television. The effects of the full switchover to digital television broadcasts are likely to be as catastrophic as the Y2K phenomenon proved to be - it's a lot of hoopla over a bang that will likely be ... 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...

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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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... even lower than expected. A division of MasterCard showed holiday spending this year was down by as much as 4% over the same period last year, making this year the worst holiday season for them in modern times. Even retail behemoths such as Gap experienced a drop in sales by close to 20 percent. Best Buy and other electronics and appliance stores experienced even more significant drops ... for market share, will also have to face laying off more and more of their employees the longer the recession continues. As 2009 begins to unfold, the retail industry could see a dramatic decrease in ...

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... B. Hepatitis B is a main cause of liver cancer and disease. The recommendation suggests that testing be done on all persons born in Africa and Asia and that it also be done on others in the at-risk population, such as men who have sex with men and injection drug users. The recommendations sent out by the CDC, for the first time, come with guidelines for managing chronically infected ... patients of hepatitis B. "Chronic hepatitis B affects the lives of more than one million Americans, many of whom do not even know ... people know that they have it, they can keep from giving it to other...

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... of toxic red 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...

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... clamoring for an audience to their agendas, Mr. Obama uses language like "I support" and "I believe we need to." Neither is a lie, but one speaks of promise to act. The other, of promise to react. In other words, on some issues, Mr. Obama has every intention of taking his cause to Congress, and seeks to bolster that cause by creating public outcry through ... 's pet project arrive on his desk for his perusal. So it is in the case of immigration. Regarding immigration, on the site http://barrackobama.com, the president says the following regarding Immigration: "Create Secure Borders Obama...

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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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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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... civil war when pundits and politicians, scared of the body bags stacking up under Grant's command begged Lincoln to fire U.S. Grant, Lincoln's answer was "I cannot spare this man. He fights!" In the end, Lincoln and Grant split the credit when they won the war, neither of them having likely seen the white of an enemy's eyes in battle. To say Grant "fought" was to say that men fought ... for him, men that knew full well the costs that might be incurred, who knew well ... knew full well that thousands were never coming home. What's more is that the men knew it too. Eisenhower was so unsu...

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... . 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 five-six problem [on a scale of one ... itineraries, which would mean more fuel consumption and, ultimately, higher shipping costs. More than that, even, piracy has hampered relief efforts to Somalia. The World Food Programme has been f...

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... cardboard boxes and aluminum foil. They are good for slow cooking, and larger ones can be used to bake bread. If you live in a place where there is sunshine most of the time, a solar cooker can save you considerable money over using even a crock pot. They are especially good for drying/dehydrating food ... itself very quickly. There are even solar powered jackets. No, I'm not joking. If you live in a sunny but cold climate, this could be a great way to keep a little warmer. Of course, there are the small solar cells that can recharge your cell phones and ipods. These are very inexpensive,...

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... 8 when military troops from Russia entered South Ossetia, a state that has declared its dependence from Georgia, with the stated goal of removing Georgian troops from the region. Georgian troops had been present as self-proclaimed "peace-keeping forces," monitoring criminal activity in the region, but on August 7 their efforts became offensive as they initiated air strikes on South Ossetia rebel forces. ... According to the Republic of Georgia, just as rebel forces had become aggressive toward Georgian cities, Russian troops had slowly been building a huge presence in the region. On Augu...

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... 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. Many residents are boarding up their homes to protect against thugs roaming the streets with sticks, knives, and guns. The headquarters of Mubarak's party was burned down, as well as many other buildings. ... said Mohammed Mahmoud, a protestor in the city's main Tahrir Square. Although tanks were deployed to Tahrir Square, no reports have surfaced about clashes between the army and the protestors. In fact, many fee...

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... liner from his car, although his father protested that he had removed the liner because of a fuel leak. Neighbors also reported that a bonfire was held at the McGuffin household the day after Freeman disappeared (Lohr). In October of 2009, Freeman's mother, Cory Courtright, requested that the Coquille Police Department and the district attorney's office reinvestigate the case. "They need to have a dedicated team go back and look ... through all of the files again, re-interview everyone involved, and re-examine all of ... he couldn't recall a single case where a judge released a homicid...

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... industry be next on the government bailout list? 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 ... 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...

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... Getting Loans Instead of Handouts". Believe it or not, the logic behind the choice to give the money rather than loaning it is quite flawless. The reason the press doesn't give you the answer is that the answer is a well known cure for insomnia. Up late? Read on! When most business people think of banks, they think of business in a linear fashion. Product or service costs X dollars and ... after mark-up, consumers buy the product for Y amount. It's easy to mistake banks as falling into the same category, especially when they ding you for using outside ATM machines, monthly service fees,...

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... 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 presidential race of 2008, Americans got ... political online. The Internet gave voters a new, direct ... link to their candidates. News giant CNN and pop-culture portal YouTube collaborated on two debates between the candidates, so that...

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... people are surprised if you don't have a cell phone, as those who don't are now in the minority. More than one out every two people now own a cell phone, and that number is growing larger every day. The impact of cell phones on society has become huge. One reason that the cell phone has made such an impact on society today is because of ... . You can check your email and chat to friends. Cell phones of today also have the technology built in to watch live television no matter where you are. Some offer a GPS navigational system to help you find driving directions. Of course, many people w...

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... that that they were already hooked with heroin and their lives are ruined. History of Heroin The heroin comes from morphine which is a natural substance extracted from seedpod of opium poppy. The opium poppy was discovered and cultivated in Mesopotamia about 3400BC. It was until the 19th century that the chemical analysis of opium was revealed. Most of its content could be ascribed to two ... popular when he re-synthesized it 23 years later. Hoffman works with the Bayer, a pharmaceutical company in Germany. Hoffman was tasked to produce codeine, which is less potent and addictive, however...

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... is a geneticist at Northern Arizona University. That sample is what linked Ivins to two anthrax attacks that happened in the weeks following the events on September 11, 2001. He kept unusually long evening hours at his lab after the attacks, and this was thought to be an indication of questionable activities. Incomplete Evidence A news conference was ... held to explain the scientific case that was brought against Ivins. Those presenting the case contradicted themselves during the course of the news conference. Understandably, this did not instill confidence in the general public regardi...

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... ," Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin were released from prison, where they were currently serving out their sentences for the murder of three second-graders in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Steven Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were found dead in a ditch with their bodies mutilated and hog-tied by their own shoestrings. Police immediately suspected Echols, Misskelley, and Baldwin, claiming ... added, "I don't think that it will make the pain go away to the victims families. I don't think it will make the pain go away to the defendants families" (CNN...

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