... understand such illegitimate deals could cost them their entire fortune." Xianding also commented, "The strictest punishment used to be seven-years in prison. Now it's ten" (China Digital Times). In a notice on Friday, the Supreme People's Court urged harsher penalties for both corrupt manufacturers and food inspectors. "Those food safety crimes leading to ... on food safety violations, backed by a state media campaign. However, recently cases were revealed using milk laced with melamine, pigs fed with performance enhancing drugs to watermelons juiced up with growth-stimulating chemicals...

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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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... Chinese dissident who was also an activist involved in environmental affairs and AIDS sufferers, was recently released after spending three and a half years in prison. In December 2007, Hu was arrested and then convicted just five months later for "incitement to subvert state power," a term frequently used in trials against critics of China's authoritarian Communist government. Hu was originally an environmental campaigner, eventually taking on ... campaigns against HIV and AIDS in China before his increasing knowledge led him to become critical of the government. With the 2008 Beijing ...

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... 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 people are without shelter ... thirds of world trade are controlled by multinational corporations. • The top five multinational corporations control 70 percent of the global market for consumer durables. • The top five firms in automot...

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... 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 people are without shelter ... investments. - Two thirds of world trade are controlled by multinational corporations. - The top five multinational corporations control 70 percent of the global market for consumer durables. - The top f...

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... , education then becomes recreation. The Larson article highlights particular individuals that have decided to return to school, even though they had fulfilling careers that did not require them to attend on-going courses. One woman, a doctor, returned to school to enhance her writing and to weave her creative side into her professional side. Another, a lawyer, took classes initially out of curiosity ... . Although it is common among many to believe that the quality of distance learning is less than a traditional college, as numbers of these learners grow and employers encourage it, new p...

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... 8, dealing a blow to the gay and lesbian right's of men and women throughout the state of California. Those who supported the ban focused on a few key issues during their campaigning of the bill. They believed that young children would be forced to accept gay marriages whether or not they ... leaders supported the rights of gay marriages, such as Senator Diane Feinstein, as well as the state's public instruction superintendent. However, Proposition 8 did pass in California, with a passing vote of 52% to 48%. The African-American voters also played a big role with the outcome of Proposit...

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... job openings nationwide and weakened his job approval standing with the public. Obama vowed to begin a $500 million initiative which will use technological innovations to create jobs and spur growth in clean energy and advanced manufacturing. To reach these goals, the government will join teams with universities and corporations to jumpstart the manufacturing sector, specifically targeting cutting-edge research and new ... (Murphy). The Obama administration has sought to reverse their poor standings by making job creation measures a weekly topic. However, Representative Renee Ellmers fro...

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After six years of consideration, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), plans to expand the number of website domain endings past the current list of 22, which include .com, .org, .info, .edu. and .net (Stevenson). This new rule will allow major corporations and companies to register almost any word, in any language, as their domain ending (Gross). "Icann has opened ... web. The difficult application process reinforces the idea that only powerhouse companies will be able to spend the money on their own domain name. Furthermore, the new rule could cut down on phishin...

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... , 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 that they were ... used to convict them. As a result, Craighead County Circuit Judge David Laser allowed the boys to go free after sentencing them to the 18 years they already served and added a 10...

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... write their own material (research Kelly Clarkson vs. Clive Davis for her album My December to see an example of power the record label has in how successful an album is). No one wants to hear the same song over and over again. Songs are more popular because of who ... dismissed the record as not sellable because it had "no hits." This was in part due to because she refused to take the $10 million offered to her to replace or rework 5 songs and work with the hit writers she worked with on Breakaway. Clarkson's response? "It's my face, it's my time, there's ... . In the end, she got it r...

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... a day. (Lovgren, 2003). For all of these reasons, this phenomenon can properly be called "tourist terrorism." It has affected tourism in the last 10 years in many ways; but perhaps not as negatively as might be thought; according to the World Tourism Organization. In 2007, international tourist arrivals grew by an estimated 6% to reach a new record figure of nearly 900 million-the 800 million ... research organization. The outcome of the September 11 attacks has shown the world how important travel and tourism are to our global economy. Even more apparent is how over-dependence on touri...

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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 ... were people who knew about the dangerous weakening of the reservoir wall, but for personal reasons they thought it wasn't worth repairing and hoped there'd be no trouble," he ...

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... include higher domestic cuts than the original version, as well as a decrease in the health care savings from overhauling the medical malpractice system. Unlike the original proposal, the revised version does not call for a cap on medical malpractice awards, but instead recommends a change in how awards are made (Andrew and Kuhnhenn). The proposals that did not change ... from the original draft include a gradual increase in the Social Security retirement age to 68 by 2050 and 69 by 2075. The ... cost-of-living for the programs will decrease, and the cap on income subject to Social secu...

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... how greedy the construction and real estate sales market was. All of the blame seemed to be put on the financial sector, when in fact, these two industries were actually complicit in pushing for more lenient guidelines so that they could build and sell homes. Florida was the hardest hit ... they have not already been foreclosed on, they are stuck with houses worth less than they paid for them that they can't sell, in towns where there are no jobs. Conservative estimates say that Florida now has lost 50% of all construction related jobs. In many areas, the numbers are much higher. The Or...

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... -after pictures (Cleland et al, viii). Rapid Weight-Claims. According to Cleland that rapid weight-claims were made in 57% of the advertisements (viii). There are advertisements that show that illustrates rapid weight loss such claims as shedding off 10 pounds in less than 2 weeks. Seeing this result, women became attracted due to the fact that weight loss seems so ... weight-claims are inherently suspect (Cleland, viii). Clinically Proven/Doctor Approved Claims. Meanwhile, there are women consumers who do not just believe on what the advertisements say thus, advertisers take it from th...

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... 9th. Following the World Series, Ramos returned to his home country of Venezuela where he was to play in a winter baseball league after finishing off an extremely successful rookie season in the MLB. In 2011, Ramos played his first full season on the big stage, batting .267 with a whopping 15 homeruns and 58 RBIS. Ramos also replaced Ivan Rodriguez, the 14 ... received the ransom. Victor Zambrano's mother was also kidnapped that year. In 2008, kidnappers in Caracas murdered Henry Blanco's brother (Matuszewski). Officials in both Venezuela and the U.S. have warned visitors and citizens o...

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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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... that he would miss Thursday's meeting. Along with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, Kyl plans to increase the pressure on President Obama to become more involved in the push for a debt limit deal (Hulse). "President Obama needs to decide between his goal of higher taxes, or a bipartisan ... plan to address our deficit," said McConnell and Kyl in a joint statement. "He can't have both. But we need to hear from him" (Hulse). Vice President Biden commented, "The goal of these ... talks was to report our findings back to our respective leaders. The next phase is i...

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... 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. Many residents are boarding up their homes to protect against thugs roaming the streets with sticks ... Square, no reports have surfaced about clashes between the army and the protestors. In fact, many feel as though the army is siding with them. One army captain joined the demonstrators, who hoisted him up on their shoulders while the captain ripped a picture of the president. "We don't ....

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... were having to misrepresent themselves or their partners as spouses to gain medical, dental and life insurance coverage. This became so pervasive that healthcare providers in California began putting the term "partner" and "significant other" on their enrollment forms as the misrepresentation had become so pervasive (Onwuachi-Willig, 873-875). Not only does a continual misrepresentation of ones' gender happen ... with great regularity, there is also the issue of social security numbers, aligning identities when an event does occur that forces a same-sex couple to admit their ... misrep...

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... 178 million gallons every single day. It's customary for the price of gas to increase in the warmer months, just as we are all piling into our cars in search of sunny shores. The increased demand on the gas supply translates into higher prices - classic supply-and-demand economics. But that's ... how this works, here is a breakdown of where your money goes for each dollar you spend on gas, according to the Department of Energy: Taxes: 11 cents Distribution and Marketing: 6 cents Refining: 10 cents Crude oil: 73 cents [source: DOE] Quite obviously, the largest component of each dollar spe...

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... the only thing that makes ethanol cheap is the huge government subsides it receives. Ethanol uses massive amounts of energy in production. We have also seen firsthand the effect on grocery prices when our corn crop is used for ethanol production instead of being used for feeds, oils and other ... algae formed fuel doesn't contribute to climate change, because the algae produced fuel doesn't contain the sulfur, nitrogen, and benzene which contaminate regular crude oil. In simple terms, gasoline made from algal oil is, at worst, carbon neutral. As an added bonus, the byproducts of the pro...

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... Olympics and supporting its athletes draws foreign athletes who wish to learn from this tradition and benefit from this support. In many cases, the facilities for training in the U.S. have more funding than in certain less affluent countries. That in itself is a good reason to make the trip. What It Takes To Be The Best Many foreign athletes head to the U.S. specifically for aquatic ... number of Iraqi wrestlers who competed in the 2004 Summer Games. Iraqi Olympic athletes had previously been killed under the rule of Saddam and Uday Hussein. More than that, they were tortured until they...

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... 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 ... "right down to the cause of death" (Alvarez). Baez approached the jury with a different story. The defense argued that Caylee accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool, and her panicked grandfather, George Anthony, helped Casey to conceal the death. Furthermore, they argued that Casey had been sexu...

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