... originally chose what she referred to as "quiet diplomacy" concerning the Saudi Arabian women protesting the unwritten ban on their right to drive in the kingdom until the arrest of Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi technology consultant and mother on May 22nd. Supporters launched a campaign to free ... statement supporting our right to drive. In a more recent letter, the women wrote, "Three days ago, on June 17, more Saudi women drove a car than ever before. But as we launch the largest women's rights movement in Saudi history, where are you when we need you most? In the context of the Arab Spri...

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The trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, the personal physician of the late Michael Jackson, took a turn for the worse after the 911 call was played to jurors on September 29th. Murray chose not to call for an ambulance for nearly thirty minutes after he first realized that Jackson needed medical attention - a fact that prosecutors are calling an attempt at a cover-up (Los Angeles Times ... ). Jackson's security guard, Alberto Alvarez, took the stand against Murray, claiming that when he walked in the room, he saw Jackson's lifeless body on the ... reaction" and needed to be taken to the hospital. How...

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... class. He saw an equitable tax system, and a health care system where no one would ever die for 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 ... 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 ... for bigger profits. 4. Impose su...

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... from the shocks of unfettered markets, now use Obama's bailout to separate themselves from the Republican party (Nicholas). In the past three years, domestic car companies have risen out of their 2008-09 slump. Just last week, Chrysler repaid $7.6 billion in loans to the U.S. and Canada even though they did not come due until 2017. The company has returned $10 ... However, the auto companies are adding jobs and gaining market share against international competitors (Nicholas). Despite the gain in that industry, the state of the economy poses a major threat to Obama's campaign for the 20...

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... fear him, race isn't even the major issue. It isn't that he's black, it's that he's not, in their eyes, one of "us"...people born and raised right here in the good old U.S. of A. Ask any one of them if they would have voted for Colin Powell for President, and they would say they would have. They don't actually hate Obama, they simply don't trust him ... afraid now anyway. It's in an economic crisis the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Great Depression. The rich are getting richer off of the destruction of the middle class. The powerful are getting more powerful, as the common p...

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... since Mubarak took office nearly thirty years ago. Frustration has been building for several years about Mubarak's reign, which most Egyptians see as corrupt, heavy-handed, and neglectful of increasing poverty. Protestors were enraged 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 ... use force against demonstrators (Hendawi). Speaking from the White House, Obama criticized the violence used against protestors and reiterated what he described as the right...

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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 their own shoestrings. Police immediately ... the death sentence because he was believed to be the ringleader while the other two allegedly involved were sentenced to life in prison, said he was "very much in shock, ver...

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... -year-old who was recently found not guilty of murdering her toddler daughter and released from an Orlando, FL jail in July, has to serve a year of probation as required by a corrected order. In January of 2010, Anthony pleaded guilty to stealing a friend's checkbook and writing five fraudulent checks that totaled $644.25. She was sentenced to 412 days in jail but received credit for ... time served. However, she was also sentenced to a year of probation, but a misunderstanding granted her credit for that also. Orange County Circuit Judge Stan Strickland intended for Anthony's probation ...

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... to the 2,000 Jews shipped from there to Nazi concentration camps (The Age). The apology came after years of litigation from legislators, survivors, their descendants and some American Jewish organizations, who argued that the company had never acknowledged or apologized for shipping 76,000 European Jews to the Franco-German border from 1941 to 1944. The Jews were then transported to Nazi ... paid by the head and by the kilometer. That was blood money, and they've never paid a penny of it back," she said (AOL News). In 1999, France's then President Jacques Chirac admitted that the countr...

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... 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 but never made it (CBS News). On August 3, 2000, her body was found in a wooded area about eight miles from her hometown of Coquille. The autopsy revealed ... more information about that night," said Coquille Police Chief, Mark Dannels (Lohr). Currently, McG...

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... Michael Pastor sentenced Murray to the maximum of 4 years in prison. However, under the new state law regarding conditions in state prisons, Murray will serve time in the LA County Jail rather than in the state prison. Even at that, a spokesman for the county Sheriff's Department said Murray would only spend a maximum of two years behind bars, with a potential for even less time if the jails get overcrowded (Ryan ... ). Murray was convicted on November 7th of involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson. Since then, he has lost all of the medical licenses he held in three different states....

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... fighters from Misurata, seasoned from months of previous fighting, led the attack. Celebratory gunfire could be heard all over the 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 ... as an...

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... . 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 position ... nearby. A spokesman at NATO headquarters in Kabul, Lt. Col. John Dorrian, reported that, "It was a very high elevation area, very very challenging terrain." According to his reports ... , told the Daily T...

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... . The couple was riding jet skis on Falcon Lake, when they wandered onto the Mexican side, even though it is a known stronghold for the Zeta drug cartel (AOL News). Tiffany claims that the couple had gone to the other side of the lake that straddles the Texas ... think I need to do, then that might be an option," she said. Later, on HLN's "Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell," Tiffany tried again to persuade people that she was telling the truth. "I know what I know. God knows the truth. And other than that, it almost doesn't really matter to me, ... authorities have gathered evidence to bac...

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These days more and more people are heading back to school. They may be attempting to advance in their current career path or begin a new one. Balancing school and work responsibilities is a juggling act that requires open communication, budgeting of your time, and stress management. You will need to have all your ducks in a row to successfully pull off school and work at the ... schedule? Will this schooling make you more valuable to the company? Playing up this angle will make for an employer who is glad to do whatever it takes to help you succeed. You will also have to talk to your family ...

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... (Thompson). The war between the United States and Afghanistan began nearly a decade ago when the Taliban was stripped of its power in 2001 during a U.S. invasion for hosting al Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden. After the Taliban regrouped from the initial attack just weeks after the September ... renounce violence, break with al Qaeda and live under the Afghan constitution, including respect for the rights of women," she said (Graham-Harrison). A U.S. Embassy official commented, "We must help create conditions necessary to enable a political settlement among the Afghan people. This...

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... 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 need for a longer life. With the new medicines that have come out in just the last five years, those that have hepatitis B have been given a sense of hope. With the new ... guidelines being distributed for treatment of those found to be infected, they will be watched more closely ... for effects on their liver. Other goals of the CDC are to make sure that infants are vaccinated, unvaccinated ... ...

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... follow-up tests. Yet, while everyone understands that breast cancer is predominantly a woman's disease, an amazing number of people do not realize that it strikes men as well. It is this lack of awareness, along with improper or no testing, and good old-fashioned fear that is causing this disease be seem more common among men. Data from various cancer groups suggests ... like women produce a certain amount of testosterone. If the estrogen amount becomes too heavy in the body, it can help to breed cancerous cells. Some studies that have been done over the years theorize that there are ot...

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... . 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 and Queens," said Evan Stavisky (Koplowitz). Weprin will meet with ... Sept. 13" (Koplowitz). The Republican Party has not announced a nominee as of now, but they may not need to. The New York's 9th Congressional District, which Weiner represented for the past 13 years, co...

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... Those bombs were fake, but would they have been real, they would have killed lots of people" (Messana). The FBI specifically used a Stinger missile in the plot because it carried a minimum 25 years in prison. The defendants' lawyers are using this fact to appeal the sentence (Hays). In October, Onta Williams was convicted on seven counts while the other two were found guilty on ... could make a terrorist out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope" (Hays). She did however berate the defendants for the anti-Semitism and for being "willing to kill, maim a...

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... him on six counts, including conspiracy, issuing false statements, and violating campaign contribution laws, he pleaded not guilty. If convicted, Edwards is looking at up to 30 years in prison and a maximum fine of $1.5 million. For now, he's been ordered to stay within the lower 48 states and has no access to his passport (Bohn). Edwards does not intend to go down easily ... would strip Edwards of his law license (Bohn). The law, according to the government, works against Edwards in his case. He violated a campaign finance law based on an 11-year-old advisory opinion issued by the Fede...

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... that athletes come to benefit from the advanced training and expertise. For example, U.S. divers have won almost half of all the medals given out in the modern Olympics games. If you want to learn how to win, you go to the people who have done it before. This legacy of tremendous success in aquatic sports draws foreign athletes to the U.S. to seek the edge ... that training in the U.S. can provide. A Reason To Escape Some athletes travel, in part, to escape persecution. One example is the number of Iraqi wrestlers who competed ... in the 2004 Summer Games. Iraqi Olympic athletes had pr...

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... charges. Philistin then approached a second judge who has since handled the case (Troutman). This judge ruled that Waggoner should be detained in prison, possibly for three months, while the case is investigated. Haitian law allows defendants to be imprisoned without charge during investigations (WMUR). After hearing the ... . However, he did plead guilty to one charge of assault and battery of which he received an 18-month suspended jail sentence and two years' probation. MMRC's co-founder, Paul Sebring, believes this charge was somewhat biased. He claims, "He got the assault and battery...

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... of gasoline on a global basis throughout the 21rst century, the traditional interrelationships between demand and pricing have become completely disengaged from each other. There is in fact no clear definition of elasticity of demand for fuels, as the effects of oil futures trading, OPEC pricing models and decisions, the inclusionary versus exclusionary strategies of OPEC with regard to their lesser ... Toyota Production System (TPS) as the basis of creating hybrid engine component supply chains that quickly "learn" how to produce the most energy-efficient car over time. For Toyota, thei...

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... 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 ... domain name system to better serve all mankind," said Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of Icann (IBTimes). Icann is a nonprofit group, founded in 1998, that assigns addresses to Internet service providers. Icann has members from all over t...

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