... said that "whatever happened, I would like to stress that those who are responsible of course are the captors." The government authorized the mission after learning that Norgrove's life was in grave danger. Historically, the U.S.-led NATO force has been slow to acknowledge friendly fire deaths in Afghanistan. With an increased focus on preventing civilian deaths, NATO has increased its response time from weeks ... or months to minimum amount of time needed to report on mistakes (Vogt). The rescue team came under fire from within the Taliban compound, as well as from an overwatch positio...

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... the remainder of the male population or even women caught in a similar situation. As the Cancer Association and other organizations move forward in their efforts to find a cure for breast cancer, lets hope that they remember it isn't just a woman's disease. No one wants to take anything away from the female of the species. However, wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters also do not want to lose their beloved ... husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons to the breast cancer. As we "think pink ... " this October, let's also remember to add a small strand of blue, even if it is only in our mi...

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Hope -- it's something that is hard to define, and in this economic climate, hard to come by. What do the people of the U.S. hope for? The end of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? An economy that isn't crashing and taking the middle class with it? Universal Health Care? There are so many things wrong in this country, that it's hard to know what to be most angry about. Barack ... politics by defeating two of the most powerful members of the Senate to do so.. He has changed this country by crossing the aisle to nominate Republicans to his cabinet. He has changed this country by making Hillary C...

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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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... were deployed to Tahrir 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 want him! We will go after him! Those ... only been able to protect key government buildings as well as major tourist and archaeological sites, including the Egyptian Museum which houses many of the country's most treasured antiquities. The military also closed the pyramids (Hadid)...

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... economic plan. Now, when we need the money most of all is the best time to enact these changes. These are ways Obama can raise the needed money. 1. Stick by his plan to end subsidies to the oil companies. Why we are subsidizing one of the most profitable industries in the country has always been a mystery. 2. Change the tax code so that the middle class will have more purchasing power ... . If they are buying, the businesses will find ways to get more goods to them ... once and for all, and punish those who would desert American workers for bigger profits. 4. Impose substantial tariffs ...

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... this area? Reporters Carolyn Y. Johnson and Lisa Wangsness of the Boston Globe examined the proposed output from the plateau under Georges Bank. With the 57 million barrels of confirmed oil there and the 72 trillion cubic feet of natural gas we would have enough fuel to keep the country going for count them folks 2 days! Another article in the USA Today by Rick Jervis, William M. Welch, and Richard ... Wolf discusses the possibility of 18 billion barrels of oil off the coasts of the United States including protected areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Santa Barbara. With 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 ... immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill. Remove Incentives to Enter Illegally Obama and Biden will remove incentives to enter the country illegally by cracking down on employers ...

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Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was recently in America this week for the UN General Assembly being held in New York City. The problem with this is, that puts her right in the fire, so to speak. She and her country have defaulted on billions in debt owed to U.S. creditors. President Kirchner has repeatedly ignored the U.S. federal court system and supposedly removed any of her country's assets to outside the U.S. and away from collectors. With her being in New York this week for the UN talks, U.S. bondholders' have become more upset due this obvious slap in the face to the U.S. Justice s...

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... 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 ... Only one percent of all multinational corporations own one half of the global stock of foreign direct investments. • Two thirds of world trade are controlled by multinational corporations. • The top five multinational corporatio...

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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 ... percent of the world's population while controlling 25% of the world's economic output. - Only one percent of all multinational corporations own one half of the global stock of foreign direct investments. - Two thirds of world trade...

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... their doors. Give them help, of course, but force them to make major changes in the way they do business. No more private planes, no more huge executive salaries, and wages would have to fall. The average auto worker makes over $130,000 a year in wages and benefits. That's outrageous in a country where a service worker makes on $10 an hour without benefits. If we bail ... 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 t...

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... made people think about the true meaning and effect of a Civil War, and whether the country as a whole was more important than the wants of a few. Today, we face much the same situation. The country is suffering, but it isn't a Civil War that is tearing us apart, it is the greed of the wealthy and the suffering of the rest of us. In the war of the upper class against the masses, the casualties aren't bodies ... strewn on a field, but the American Dream itself that is ... ...

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... II. They were meant to help citizens provide for themselves in an attempt to help the war effort. In fact, almost one third of the vegetables consumed in the United States in 1943 came from these Victory Gardens. This time the effort is aimed at helping the environment. What Is A Victory Garden? A victory garden is just a garden, but, at the same time, it is so much more. It is an ... as vegetables are concerned. Its original intention was one of being a civic duty that would support the war effort. It was not meant to be a chore but a matter of pride in their country. It allowed everyo...

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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 ... not even know that they have it. To detect it early is the equivalent to preventing the spread. If more people know that they have it, they can keep from giving it to others and get the treatment they ne...

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... all over the country, and Charlotte, NC seems to 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 ... ...

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... the country. The protests that are shaking the country have no known leader, but are comprised mostly of citizens in their 20's who are outraged at almost everything going on in the country - from the state of the economy to the war in Afghanistan to environmental issues. In general, protestors are demonstrating against everything that's currently wrong in the world. Because of the vagueness of the cause, the movement has attracted millions of people disenfranchised by things occurring in the U.S. (Silverleib). The ... movement originally began as an ad hoc group of college student prot...

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... he plans to withdraw from Afghanistan next month. Both sides are skeptical at the pace that the talks will allow U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the country (Graham-Harrison). Defense Secretary Gates is skeptical that the U.S. presence in Afghanistan could be greatly reduced, however. He believes the military has to keep pressure on the Taliban in order to produce positive results (Thompson). However, many Afghans, including women's and civil ... society activists, fear that if these preliminary talks progress any further, the progress the country has experienced since the Taliban was ...

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... this year, a showdown between government officials and pirates saw the latter holding a Ukrainian ship ransom for $20 million. 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, ultimate...

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... can be "reliably expected to return home") 90 days of visa-free travel. Primarily, those granted the visa-free travel have come from other affluent countries such as Japan and Australia. The assumption is that if they already live in a wealthy country, the temptation to stay in the U.S. would not be as strong as if they came from an impoverished or war-torn environment. Without ... the waiver, potential visitors have to go the U.S. Embassy, pay a fee and be interviewed by a consular officer. Often ... allow more foreigners into the country. They wanted to be able to better track who wa...

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... would never vote for him, simply because he is black. The 'fear factor' has been bandied about on the Sunday morning talk shows since Obama announced he was running for president. The host never questions the validity of the fear. In fact, the host and guests alike treat the subject as though it were fact. They automatically assume the fear is race based. There are no questions about it ... politically incorrect for him. That is very poor judgement and brings into question his true beliefs. And that causes fear. Michelle Obama's statement that 'for the first time in my adult life, I'm p...

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... 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 the evidence," she said. In January, a cold-case team was formed. Although the a...

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... 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 ... them, and forcing a victim to choose between a bat or a pipe to be beaten with. Despite rumors that Vargas-Perez intended on turning himself in, he is still at large (Goldman). New ...

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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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... wait that long to recoup their investment. You could recoup it faster if your local utility company has a way to buy the excess power generated back from you, but most of them haven't gotten to that point yet. If you live in a remote area, solar power is a necessity. Wind power is not reliable enough to provide all your electric needs. Still, adding ... even make them from 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 m...

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