... President of the United States, even if the popular vote swings in the opposite direction of the Electoral College vote. The 538 people given electoral votes are those elected to the Senate and as Representatives of the state in Congress. In this aspect, the people retain the power of the vote due to the fact that they elect the representatives to speak for their needs in the political setting. Each state has the same number ... of electoral votes as there are Senate and Representative elected officials. All states, aside from Maine and Nebraska, hold to a "popular vote" / "electoral vo...

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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...

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After 18 years of "an absolute living hell," 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 ... they were driven by satanic ritual, regardless of the extreme lack of evidence that they had to indict the boys. Echols and Baldwin entered an Alford plea on three counts of first degree murder, while Misskelley en...

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... 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 ... it too. Eisenhower was so unsure of his plan that he wrote two letters, one praising the valiant men who stormed the beaches in the event of success, the other taking full blame in case the offensive was defeated. The men knew what they were heading into, and they went anyhow; not for a ...

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... 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 ... 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, the experiment prod...

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... is particularly noticeable during hurricanes as they crash into shores with an average category rating of 2 and 3. As if this wasn't enough 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 ... could keep running for another I love this 2 ½ years! Wow. That's all I can say about it. We can get another 2 ½ years plus 2 days of fuel for the low cost of future damages. This is like buying...

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After eleven hours of deliberation, the jury composed of seven women and five men concluded that Casey Anthony did not murder her daughter, Caylee, by rendering her unconscious with chloroform, covering her mouth with duct tape to suffocate her, and then dumping her deceased body in the woods as prosecutors claimed. The two-year-old Caylee went missing on June 16, 2008. Casey then partied for ... the next month before being forced by her mother to ... "bella vita," or beautiful life (Alvarez). "Whose life was better without Caylee?" Linda Drane Burdick, one of the prosecutors questioned the ...

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... has alarmingly increased: 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war and war-related expenses as the number one item in global spending. Consider the following statistics: • The world spends one trillion dollars in armaments while 800 people million live in extremely bad poverty, 770 million people do not have food for an active working life, 100 million ... 1.8 trillion dollars. • Only 358 billionaires have a total income of 760 billion dollars which is equivalent to the total income of 2.5 billion people. • 20 percent of the world's richest people rec...

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... has alarmingly increased: 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war and war-related expenses as the number one item in global spending. Consider the following statistics: - The world spends one trillion dollars in armaments while 800 million people live in extremely bad poverty, 770 million people do not have food for an active working life, 100 million ... to 1.8 trillion dollars. - Only 358 billionaires have a total income of 760 billion dollars which is equivalent to the total income of 2.5 billion people. - 20 percent of the world's richest people recei...

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... by a consensus vote (Rooney), "I am deeply honored have the trust placed in me by the Executive Board. I would like to thank the Fund's global membership warmly for the broad-based support I have received. I would also like to express my respect and esteem for my colleague and friend, Agustin Carstens," she said (Rooney). The global financial institution desperately needed a new leader because of their ... that exist and approve the austerity measures that are currently preventing the country from receiving their next installment loans from the IMF and EU. Additionally, she lectured Gre...

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... , one for twenty million euros to a German branch of an American bank and one for 3 million euros to an Italian bank (News.gather.com). The Vatican Bank has vowed to be committed to "complete transparency" in order to gain enrollment on the "White List," a list of countries that comply with international banking standards. Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi issued a letter claiming ... , "The current problem was caused by a misunderstanding - now being examined - between the IOR and the bank which received the transfer order" (News.gather.com). Lombardi has also assured that the IOR was m...

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... than a month after Rupert Murdoch was forced to shut down his mass circulation British tabloid, The News of the World, because of allegations that the paper broke into the voicemail Milly Dowler, a 13-year-old murder victim, news emerged that despite its close relationship with Sara Payne, the tabloid broke into her voicemail as well. A repeat sex offender murdered Payne's 8-year-old ... later informed that her name appeared on Glen Mulcaire's list, the private investigator hired by The News of the World. The list contained about 4,000 people rumored to be targets of the tabloid's phone...

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... Leah Freeman's murder is being reopened after sitting cold for nearly ten years. On June 28, 2000, Freeman left her friend, Sherri Mitchell's, house after getting into an argument. Her boyfriend, Nicholas McGuffin, had dropped her off previously and was expected to pick her up later. After the argument, Freeman chose not to wait for her ride and instead decided to walk home ... , they have brought murder charges against Freeman's then-boyfriend, McGuffin. "We've examined the evidence with new technologies now available to us, and certain witnesses, due to maturity and time, have been abl...

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... former University of Virginia lacrosse player, George Huguely V, for allegedly murdering his on-again off-again girlfriend, Yeardley Love, began last week and has largely centered around the incriminating emails Huguely sent to Love before the incident stating, "I should have killed you." Huguely faces first-degree murder and five other charges if he is found guilty of killing Love (FOX News). Huguely ... of Love's brain came from forcefully administering CPR (FOX News). Huguely and Love dated for two years before the relationship went sour, as displayed by the exchange of emails used i...

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... . Thousands of officials, oil company workers, and volunteers flooded the beaches with nothing more than rubber gloves and chopsticks (MSNBC.com). Steiner, who has experience in this area after working on the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989, applauded the efforts, "Very low-tech. The thing is that it worked," although he did express fear for the possible health concerns that workers might face resulting from their exposure ... to the oil (The Huffington Post). Although this most recent spill is nowhere near the magnitude of the spill in the Gulf, it still holds some drastic ... ...

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... for plants since they breathe in carbon dioxide, it's bad news for our children who are being deprived of oxygen. Plants, especially the weedier plants, are thriving and producing pollen out of proportion to their growth. Our children's respiratory systems, already struggling to take in oxygen ... relief can we give our children as they struggle to take in air and grow? Until science finds a way to reduce the CO2 levels in the air not much. Antihistamines and steroids provide some relief but neither is without side effects. Antihistamines are infamous for causing sleepiness ... while st...

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... flared back up again after North Korea launched a massive artillery barrage on a South Korean island on Tuesday, November 23rd. An estimated 200 artillery shells were aimed at the civilian island of Yeonpyeong, killing two South Korean Marines, wounding at least 14 others, and setting more than 60 buildings ablaze. South Korea answered with approximately 80 artillery shells from its own howitzers ... and put its fighter jets on high alert. Because the island was occupied by civilians, South Korea believes that the shelling of Yeonpyeong, which ... lies near the disputed maritime border...

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... Mexico for example, you were to set a meeting for 12:00 noon, that meeting might take place anytime between noon and about 6 p.m., without the dignity of a phone call. Setting a time there means you made the list, but it doesn't mean the hour of day is set in stone. In western society however, time is incredibly important. Workers lose jobs and students find themselves in ... give some silly analogy about cogs in a machine working together in harmony, but truly platitudes would be all those words would be. The true reason that being on time is important is because we have inherited and ...

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... , solar power is a necessity. Wind power is not reliable enough to provide all your electric needs. Still, adding $10 to $30 thousand dollars to the price of building a home is cost prohibitive for most of us. If you know a little bit about electricity, are good at building simple structures, and ... can teach you how to build a solar cell for less than $200. Of course, you still need the batteries and other accessories, but according to these sites, you can purchase these pretty cheaply on auction sites. It would probably take about 8 of these cells, plus accessories, to provide enough p...

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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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... purchased, prices could come down, and therefore more goods would be purchases once the taxes were applied again. However, the problem with this system is that consumers, hungry to go shopping again, could easily run up a considerable amount of debt, having the opposite effect on the economy than that which is desired. The holiday season may be over, but our collective money troubles are, by all ... accounts, far from seeing a horizon. Although there are things the government can do to help ... bolster the economy, each of us in our private lives will just have to ... ...

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... to be able to get foods from all over the world anytime we want. We can have Ecuadorian bananas in May, California strawberries in January, and Mexican avocados any time of the year. But at what cost? The average distance a grocery store's produce has to travel before it gets on your plate is 1,500 miles. That travel could be by container ship, by truck ... or by train. Regardless of the mode of transport, carbon emissions are created to get that food to you ... . Eating locally reduces those carbon emissions. If a farmer drives 30 miles into the city to sell his turnips at the local fa...

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... . Iraqi Olympic athletes had previously been killed under the rule of Saddam and Uday Hussein. More than that, they were tortured until they died. Sports aside, going to the U.S. to train allowed these athletes to escape this oppressive atmosphere at home and focus on their sport in the U.S. There are multiple reasons why foreign athletes train in the United States. Some do it because of ... the United States" overall track record of success in the Olympics as well as its overwhelming support of Olympic athletes ... . Others come to learn more about the training rituals of the U.S. in th...

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... have, I know that all of us share a deep, abiding belief in this country, a belief in our people, a belief in the principles that have made America's economy the envy of the world." He then continued on to promise that his administration will "help lay the foundation for you to grow and innovate" while also pledging to devote new investment in infrastructure and education and a focus ... on removing "barriers that make it harder for you to compete - from the tax code to the regulatory system" (Dennis). In an attempt to reconcile the differences between his administration and the US Cham...

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... . There is critical data that is lacking in the reviewed material, Bialystok believes and by looking at the data available, she suggests that since Canada is a very rich, culturally diverse country with a number of studies already being done on language acquisition as it relates to bilingualism, it is the ideal setting in which to do further research on what she refers to as environmental bilingualism. We ... can verify that Bialystok uses a correlation study as she introduces the words bilingualism versus language production to demonstrate a relationship between the two. When she finds ...

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