... beyond oil. This is what we will discuss, the behind factors and what is going on today to turn things around. For centuries now our world has been growing astronomically in technology. Here we are able to work from home over the internet, so it is clear that technology has indeed bettered our lives. ... Before 1885 people were getting from place to place mainly by horse or by boat to cross waters. Although the invention of the car cannot be denied its brilliance one can only ask if a massive amount was necessary. ... taken more seriously by the people. This is a luxury that we have ta...

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... in the special election scheduled for September 13th. Weprin is a current New York Assemblyman who formerly served as a member of the New York City council. Last year, he was elected to the state Assembly but failed in his campaign for city comptroller in 2009 (Carnia). "It is expected that David Weprin will be unanimously supported by the Democratic parties of Brooklyn ... York's 9th Congressional District, which Weiner represented for the past 13 years, covers Brooklyn and Queens. However, the New York lawmakers are trying to eliminate the district during their redistricting process t...

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... even excused from paying the $1,000 fines that the judge could have potentially imposed. However, Judge Katherine Tanksley offered her a new trial and a chance to clear her name (Garner). The man who killed 4-year-old A.J. Nelson, Jerry L. Guy, was charged with five years in prison, but he ... asking that Nelson not be charged. Reverend Dwight Graves, president of the Cobb County SCLC led a prayer before entering the courtroom asking for justice to be served. Even the prosecutors only asked for probation and community service. "The state never thought this defendant deserved jail time,"...

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... city of Tripoli, Libya, as rebel fighters raided the compound for weapons and mementos of Qaddafi's dictatorship, seizing machine guns, a gold-plated rifle, and a golf cart. Crowds immediately gathered to celebrate the monumental victory for the rebel cause. The city's Green Square immediately took on the new name of Martyrs' Square, as rebel supporters celebrated late into the night (Kirkpatrick ... ). Despite the extravagant celebration, Colonel Qaddafi and his family were not captured inside the compound. In fact, Qaddafi, who remains at large, announced on a local radio station that h...

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The Notre Dame campus is still in shock over the sudden death of Declan Sullivan, a junior studying film marketing and television and theater (Gay). Sullivan was filming a football practice atop a scissor lift, a portable hydraulic lift that allows people to videotape team drills from as high as 40 feet above practice field, when the lift collapsed from high winds (Auman). The afternoon that Sullivan died winds reached up to 51 mph in South Bend, according to the National Weather Service. Students even struggled to walk to class (Hall). Hours before his death, Sullivan tweeted about his predic...

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... wake of the latest recall from China effecting infants. If you haven't heard about it yet, China recently had to put out a recall on infant formula due to melamine being added to the mix. This recall was mainly for the purposes of China and should not affect the American people or any ... wait and see". A warning has gone out that formula already purchased for sale in Asian markets around the country might be contaminated with melamine. Also due to this knowledge, the FDA, along with state and local officials, has begun a country wide search for the tainted infant formula, in the Asian m...

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During the day of September 21st, life went on as normal for troops in Iraq, or at least normal for the area. One thing that was a little different was a visit by Brig. General Peter J. Talleri to Camp Taji. Talleri is the commander of the Defense Distribution Center and is stationed in New ... and one of the occupants got nervous and started firing upon the soldiers. The Coalition forces returned fire and killed the individuals. Weapons were discovered at the scene along with bomb making materials for IEDs. One of those killed was a known al-Qaeda terrorist. One wanted individual and three o...

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... and domestic violence groups. "She's saying that she was the victim here, and yes, she's made mistakes, who hasn't, and she's still the victim," explained James Cohen, professor of law at Fordham University (Trevelyan). Diallo, who is a 32-year-old immigrant from Guinea, recognized the "mistakes" in her story, but she does not think it should allow Strauss-Kahn ... to go free. She claims she was originally scared about losing her job after she escaped from the room where she was attacked, but when she learned who Strauss-Kahn was, ... she feared for her life. "Now, I have to be in publ...

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... her murder trial until April 2010. The defense accused him of being a "self-aggrandizing media hound," and Strickland recused himself (CNN). "From my reading of this, she should be reporting to probation in Orlando probably within 72 hours," said Strickland as he signed the new document with the added words "the defendant is ... to report to Probation upon release" and "nunc pro tunc," which allowed the amendment to work retroactively (Boston.com). Anthony's lawyer, Jose Baez, is currently working to dismiss the amended order that he says falsely claims that he and Anthony were both at ...

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... ? He believes that actions speak louder than his words, is blessed with the right genetics, and he sure knows how to eat. Practice Makes Perfect Michael Phelps sticks to a training regimen that has him working on his swimming six days every week while working out five hours each of those days. This is ... actions speak louder than words and his actions have been seen, and heard, by the world. The Right Stuff Michael Phelps was born to swim. His propensity toward swimming seems built into his genes. He stands a good six feet four inches which is a good start. Add ... to that the fact that...

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... visa waiver problem between the U.S. and several of its allies. Then, in March, the Hungarian, Slovakian, and Lithuanian governments signed MOUs (memoranda of understand) committing the U.S. government to help them qualify for the waiver program. In exchange, the U.S. would receive increased security assistance. These countries follow in the footsteps of the Czech Republic, Latvia and Estonia, who have ... in the reciprocal relationships between the United States and these countries. Hungarian Ambassador Ferenc Somogyi put it this way at the signing of the agreement: "Liberty manifests...

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... by anyone in the family. You can view the calendar in day, week, or month format and can have reminders sent automatically to your phone in the form of a text message. The calendar information can be shared with anyone you like so you can ... the night before and have a morning routine firmly in place so everyone knows what needs to be done and how long they have to do it. This will help children feel confident and at ease instead of anxious and rushed. After school each day, make sure there is a ... homework routine in place so children don't get off task and forget to complete assign...

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... originally joined in the uprising against Qaddafi cited another reason for not extraditing el-Megrahi to Britain or the US. El-Megrahi belongs to one of the largest groups who were loyal to Qaddafi during the uprising. "Any move to hand him back would cause internal conflict at a time when we are trying to bridge differences," he said (Fox News). CNN reporters finally found al-Megrahi ... at his family's Tripoli villa. He is comatose and near death. His family has kept him on ... oxygen and an intravenous drip to keep him alive. "We ... ...

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... somehow then buried deep within the earth. These algae are still capable of producing oil. While it's easy to produce an 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 ... . Second, algae farming can be done on non-arable land with non-potable water. Land that has never been able to be used for anything can now be used to reduce our dependence on foreign oil...

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... upon the moose and caribou that Alaskans love to hunt. In addition to hunting down and eliminating the wolves of Alaska, Palin also tried to remove the protected status from polar bears in the region according to Lin. The attempt to remove the polar bears from the endangered species list is puzzling to American voters at best. Palin stated that the reason for this ... on most hunting " only Alaska Native subsistence families can hunt polar bears " and measures to protect denning areas and prevent harassment of the bears. We are also participating in international efforts aimed at preser...

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... 's work, saying he was "playing Russian roulette" with Jackson's life by giving him propfol "in that reckless, obscene manner, Michael Jackson's life was put at risk" (Ryan). Although Jackson's fans are glad that Murray will be sentenced to spend a few years behind bars, they almost unanimously agree that the sentencing was too soft for the crime. "I think he needed more time, 20 ... years at least," said Michelle Grisby, who waited outside of the courthouse for the announcement of the sentence. "He knew the medication was excessive. There's no way you can fail to recognize Jackson was a...

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Lulz Security, a group of hackers who say they are in business to raise awareness of poor security and to have fun at the same time, announced that their two-month spree of hacking is now over (Sherr). The group also ... LulzSec released files from AOL Corp., AT&T Inc., and the FBI (Sherr). On Twitter, they also encouraged other hackers to continue attacking Web sites and government agencies and announced their plans to keep hacking through Anonymous, another collective of rogue hackers (Bilton). The two groups are committed to "Operation Anti-Security" (Huffington Post ... and imbue ourselv...

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... on Wikipedia have been found to be fake. Using common sense is probably the most important thing when using any Wiki for research. If something doesn't sound right, research it yourself. If something isn't sourced, but it peaks your interest, and you'd like to know more, find your own sources for the information. Learn to paraphrase. One professor at Middlebury College in Vermont had ... several papers turned in to him with the exact same phrase in them. All of the papers listed Wikipedia as the source. If 100 ... people in class are writing on the same subject, and they all use Wikipe...

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... a "monumental act", and said that Lincoln was wrong in thinking that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here." He went on to say that "The world noted at once what he said, and will never cease to remember it. The battle itself was less important than the speech." It's often said that it's not what you say, it ... 's how you say it. Barack Obama pointed out during his campaign that saying that a speech, any speech, is "just words" is taking away the power of words themselves. At the time of Lincoln's speech, brothers ... War as "a new birth of freedom" and equali...

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... Many buyers and even makers of music question the future of music. Digital technology is changing how we buy and sell music. Nowadays it is no longer a requirement to be signed to a label to get music out to the world and collecting one's royalties. Everyday, songwriters are coming up with new ideas and ... be the music we"re looking for to complete our iPod collections. As the studio formats change, the vary programs producers use such as Cubase and Pro Tools are publicly available at stores like Guitar Center. Musician's can find and buy everything they need to set up an in-home studi...

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... 's website. Since their beginning, the company has expanded the list of domain endings to include such top-level domain names as .biz and .xxx, but the list will soon grow exponentially (Gross). However, the option won't be open for everyone. The cost for an individualized domain name will be at least $185,000 per domain application and $25,000 in annual fees ... , more for those who want to keep the name exclusively for themselves (Gross). The application money will help cover the cost incurred by Icann in implementing the new ... get the endings they want (Stevenson). Several organizat...

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... their conditions, the miners have been split into three groups for rescue. The "most skilled" will be freed first in case they are needed to go back down to assist others. The weakest will come out in the second group, and the third group will consist of the rest. The Chilean Minister of ... Health, Jaime Manalich, told reporters, "They were fighting with us yesterday because everyone wanted to be at the end of the line, not the beginning. I spoke to them to tell them that we needed to establish an order of evacuation, and that the order would be decided together with them and with the ....

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... . As I followed my grandma through the day, I realized that I wanted to be a nurse. I wanted to make a difference for people. I wanted to see the smile on someone's face when I helped him or her with their every day needs. I wanted to make a difference and feel good about myself. I wanted to become a nurse so that I to could come home at night knowing that I was helping people. Becoming a nurse is rewarding ... . It is challenging at times, but when you see a patient able to go home with his or her family, you have a sense of pride that ... you were there to help them get better. Why I w...

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... 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 at the forefront of his dream. We will get better roads and structurally better schools. Maybe the ... tax code will get fixed, maybe not. A lot of what he dreamed he could make happen will have to wait. There will be no paying down the deficit, at least not anytime soon. Unlike Bill Clinton, Obama is coming into an economy that was bleeding profusely from every portal. He ......

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... Japan tested out the technology and had trouble controlling the dioxin emissions when chlorine was present in the trash. Supposedly, today's technology works at more extreme temperatures, which will eliminate this problem. There is also the possibility that as the syngas cools, it may form/reform ... materials. Not everyone is excited about this new technology. M.J. Cronin, an mechanical engineer with 31 years experience at Maine Power and Electric, says, "Long story made short - these "trash to energy" plants would consume massive amounts of power and generate little. A whole new genera...

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