... Scheme? It's basically a financial scheme where the first in get all the money, and the last in lose everything. The first in are paid by the money invested by the last in, and since they're making money, it makes it look legitimate, drawing even more investors into the scheme. Also called a "pyramid scheme", it is the slimiest of slimy dealings, because the perpetrator knows exactly what he's doing ... an offshore account somewhere where he can get it after he gets out of prison. Our government has said that we, the taxpayers, have to give to the bankers (who are, by the way, part of t...

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... , 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 the internet, using the amazing network his campaign created during the election season. On other issues, he is merely indicating what his inclinations are should someone else's pet project arrive on ... support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good ...

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Dr. Bruce Ivins was thought to be the infamous anthrax killer, but 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 ... alike admit that there are unanswered questions. FBI Assistant Director Vahid Majidi admits that missteps were made, but states that lessons wer...

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... 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 ... 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....

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... people errantly assume is owned by the United States Government. When a bank has a million dollars on hand, it can make loans of about 10 million dollars, backed by the Federal Reserve. Banks make their real income from the interest charged on loaning money that they themselves borrow. This is why you see a 1 percent interest rate, for example with the Feds, and you still pay 5 or ... 6 percent on your mortgage. The fed regulates the rate at which banks can borrow money in order to loan ... consumers money. The fed also closely regulates the credit ratings of the banks that borrow from...

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... brothers, and entire families were torn asunder by a war which had threatened the very fabric of our nation. At the Battle of Gettysburg alone, more than 51,000 were killed. After the battle, the wounded and dying were everywhere, crowded into any building that would hold them. The fallen were buried in makeshift graves, with no headstones to even identify them. It would take over a year ... to finally enterr all the bodies that fell there that day. Gettysburg stands as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Only 272 words long, the Gettysburg Address was carefully crafted by Lincoln. T...

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... the world have come to the United States to do their training. What draws them away from their home countries to train in a place that is foreign to them? The answer can be found in general expertise, the desire to train with the best in a particular sport, and even an attempt to escape persecution. A Matter Of Expertise Many foreign athletes flock to the U.S. to train because of the ... reputation that the U.S has for expertise in Olympic sport in general. Its overall history of ... being a major competitor in the Olympics and supporting its athletes draws foreign athletes who wish .....

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... asthma is almost as common as acne. Nor is it just asthma as frightening as that is. Toddlers are increasingly being diagnosed with allergies and sinusitis. Why can't our children breathe? What is happening in our world to make the very air they need all but toxic to them? According to an article in Time magazine one culprit is undoubtedly global warming ... in our air. While that is good news 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 pr...

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... 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 driven by satanic ritual, regardless of the extreme lack of evidence that they had to indict the boys. Echols and Baldwin entered an ... entered his plea to one count of first degree murder and two cou...

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... 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 chain of command, but because of complete trust in an inspired and inspiring leader. History books are filled with the stories of brave men who fought ... for the inspired leaders that sent them charging valiantly and willingly to their deaths for a cause bigger than themselves. Leadership and the army go hand in hand, for men will neither fight nor die fo...

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... 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, ten, if it ... starts to be co-opted by international terror organizations." The Gulf of Aden, which serves as the southern passageway to the Suez Canal, sees about 16, 000 ships pass ... each year, making it one of the wo...

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... lack of medicine or treatment. No one expected him to do all this in four years. It was almost a given that we would give him eight. Then the mortgage industry crashed, and the economy tanked with it. Barack Obama will now have to spend at least his first four years putting American back to work, funding projects that are necessary, but were not ... States, and use that money to subsidize the rebuilding of our own manufacturing base. 5. Impose stiff financial penalties on companies that fire or lay off workers and outsource those same jobs overseas. It's about time that we laid down the...

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... 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 receive 82.7 percent of the world's total income while the 20 percent poorest receive 1.4 percent of the total world's income.[2] Our current system now wallows in hard contradictions that seem hard to resolve. Many ... of those who produce the food such as the farmers in Third World countries are those who are hungry. United Nations data shows that the world can feed each and every human be...

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... important of these is the transparency of the production process. You can see the farmer that grew the tomato or see the cow that ends up in your freezer. Domestic food is processed using domestic laws. Foreign producers have differing standards with regards to what pesticides and herbicides can be used and what safety rules meat cutters have to follow. In many cases, stores import goods ... because they are cheaper. Frequently, the goods are cheaper because the quality isn't as high or safety standards as strict. Another reason often cited ... reaches you in March has far less nutriti...

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... current system now wallows in hard contradictions that seem hard to resolve. Many of those who produce the food such as the farmers in Third World countries are those who are hungry. United Nations data shows that the world can feed each and every human being with 3,600 calories per day and yet many are dying of poverty. Those who produce commodities such as ... the workers in developing countries cannot buy commodities in the market. Those who make tall buildings live in shanties. Many of those who ... are educated deceive and oppress people for individual gain. The market has become ...

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... available for your convenience. Aside from being costly, this method of obtaining food has a large, and often unnecessary, contribution to the problems of pollution and global warming. You will also want to keep in mind the natural disasters that have interfered with the supplies of certain crops. By growing foods in your own backyard, you will know where they came from, what chemicals have ... been used on them, and you will know that they will be available. What About The President? Roger Doiron, a proponent of organic Victory Gardens, wants ... the President to plant one on the fron...

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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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... consume approximately 20 million barrels of oil products every day, according to the Department of Energy. Just less than half of that amount is used for motor gasoline, with the rest of it going toward distillate fuel oil, jet fuel and residual fuel among other things. Each barrel holds 42 gallons of oil, which makes about 20 gallons of gasoline, ... which means that Americans consume around 178 million gallons every single day. It's customary for the price of gas to increase in the warmer months, just as ... a chain of groups that each contributes to the price of the product, and the...

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... If we bail these people out, they need to accept massive pay cuts, and the unions need to be barred from interfering. The gravy train has to stop. In order for the auto industry to compete, wages have to be pulled into line with what the rest of the country considers fair compensation. The unions have killed this country's manufacturing industry. Steel, electronics, textiles have all fallen ... to the union's excessive demands for pay and benefits. If they are allowed to, they will now be the downfall of the auto industry. The unions have to be ... brought under control. With OSHA looki...

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... , and this unfair situation has been illuminated as some of the non-visa waiver holding countries joined the European Union. The citizens of these countries were starting to feel, as Somogyi outlines above, as though they were second-class citizens when they tried to enter the U.S. Those with the visa waiver could enter the U.S. quite easily, while those without it were often denied ... access. The visa-waver program represents a strong alliance-building effort on the part of the United States, but it has not been without its critics. In Congress, the waiver issue got mixed up in discuss...

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... 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 the advances they have made with them through modern technology. When the cell phone first debuted, its only function was to make calls. That is ... voice mail and more. Most people who own a cell phone personalize it in a way that is unique to them, with favorite songs, pictures and more. Some people even choose to personalize their key pad with different colors and options f...

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... algae biodiesel, a California company has recently been the first to be successful at refining this algal "green crude" into a high-octane gasoline chemically identical to conventional fuels, and capable of being used in any car made today with no engine modification. The project was stopped in 1996, when crude oil ... prices dropped, but has recently been revived. Investors are writing huge checks. Many see algae fields developing into the oil fields of the future. Why is algae farming so exciting? ... First, it doesn't use valuable farm land, leaving it available for food production. ...

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... . An English chemist named C.R. Alder Wright was the first person who processed the heroin in 1874. He made an experiment mixing morphine with different acids. However, his invention was not a success. It was then Felix Hoffman, another chemist who made the heroin 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, the experiment produced almost two times ... more potent that morphine. Bayer named the substance "heroin", derived from th...

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... be no exception. In the lower part of central North Carolina, Charlotte has grown over the years into a sprawling city. The banking industry has brought in people from all over the country. With the crowds of decent upstanding people that have migrated to the area, another element has moved in as well. The criminal element has grown as the city has grown, and with it has come more organized ... gang activity. The gang element has gotten increasingly worse ... over the years while locals have turned a blind eye and pretended it ... ...

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... could build and sell homes. Florida was the hardest hit of all by the construction bust. Already the fastest growing state in the nation, it dove headfirst into the construction and sales of new homes. In bedroom communities of larger cities, entire economies were built on the bed of sand that was the housing construction industry. Small town budgets collapsed with the housing boom. In some small towns, such ... as North Port, Florida, a bedroom community of Sarasota, the unemployment rate went up to 25% at one point. The only thing that brought it back down was that most of those ... ...

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