... 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 Queens Democrats on July 7th to file paperwork announcing him as the Party's official pick. Weprin ... 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 to cut down two con...

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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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... 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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... , 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 Alford plea on three counts of first degree murder ... was given 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, very overwhelmed. I'm just...

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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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... September 2008, a total of sixty ships had fallen victim to pirates. The upshot of this is that international trade has become pricier, which in turn gives these seafaring terrorists a new way to line their pockets. And these tyrants mean business. During one incident this year, a ... $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, a...

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... 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 that she had died from "homicidal violence ... ." The only piece of evidence found was a single tennis shoe found on a sidewalk (Lohr). Without enough evidence, the case grew cold. Because ... 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 ...

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... and manned by the newly graduated police force. It will take a few more months for the rest to come online and help in the fight against militants in the streets of Iraq. The process for validating a police station takes some time. There are certain things that have to be done ... before the Coalition will allow it to be opened. It must be able to stand on its own without support from Coalition forces before it can be released on ... its own. They are rated from four to one with one being the highest. The al Answar Police station is now at a one with very high marks coming from its tea...

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... nipple area; An unusual rash, skin discoloration, redness or scaling around the nipple; or A painful sensation in the skin around the chest area. There is some good news for men on the horizon. Because they tend to have less breast tissue than women do, the above abnormalities can be ... easier to find once a man clearly understands what he is looking for. It should also be noted that some of these same symptoms could be found in non ... a cancer diagnosis, most physicians will typically run one or more of the following tests: Breast x-ray (mammogram), which looks for unusual changes in...

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... become the norm in today's society. In fact, most people are surprised if you don't have a cell phone, as those who don't are now in the minority. More than one out every two 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 ... personalize their key pad with different colors and options for each number on the phone. A cell phone is now such an integrated part of society, it is almost abnormal for someone not to own ...

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... 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 his retreat was merely "a tactical move," according to Reuters. Furthermore, he said the NATO airstrikes conquered his compound - not the rebel fighters ... - and vowed "martyrdom" in the ongoing uprising. Qaddafi militiamen staged a small counterattack to the rebel intruders and were able to stave off the attackers fo...

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... .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 the Internet's naming system to unlease the global human imagination. Today's decision respects ... the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. We hope this allows the 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...

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... time. That room would have no clocks, no schedule, and no daylight to guide his way. In a matter of days, the sanest of men would go quite mad. Humans tend to be people of schedules, reliant on time to know what to do and when to do it. Various societies throughout the history of man ... about proper time management, or give some silly analogy about cogs in a machine working together in harmony, but truly platitudes would be all those words would be. The true reason that being on time is important is because we have inherited and continue to pass on the erroneous idea that timeliness is...

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... 1, 1865, Senator Charles Summer called Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 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 ... speech, Lincoln was attempting to unify a nation where state's rights would no more rule supreme. In his speech, Lincoln spoke of how the Civil War was a test of whether our nation could even survive. While the war raged on for two more years, the Battle of Gettysburg is ofte...

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... , 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 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 not the whole story. Cleaner-burning ... oil it is. Oil varies from heavy to light, sweet to sour. Light, sweet crude is the easiest and cheapest to refine, but there is a lull in the supply of it. Heavy, sour crude, on the other hand, is plentiful, but re...

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... about 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 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 budget...

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Will Cars in the Future Run on Green Gas? Millions of years ago, crude oil was formed. It was made by algae, and somehow then buried deep within the earth. These ... 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. This would reduce our dependence on foreign food ... have been told that the only thing that makes ethanol cheap is the huge gove...

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... 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. Murray's lawyer joked about his job prospects post-jail time, which included working as a coffee barista or ... , absolutely no sense of fault and is and remains dangerous" (Ryan). Judge Pastor went on to criticize Murray's tactics of administering surgical anesthetic for insomnia as "horrible medicine" practice, citing th...

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... Onta Williams, 35, all found guilty of planning to attack two synagogues and to shoot down US military planes, to 25 years each in prison on terrorism charges. The lawyers plan on appealing the charges. The three men were arrested in May of 2009 after a year-long sting operation led by the FBI and an informant who provided the men with three improvised explosive ... called "questionable" behavior during the sting operation (Messana). "There was no pre-existing plot," said Judge Colleen McMahon after a three-hour hearing in a Manhattan federal court. "The government came upon a man incap...

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... had not yet allowed the government and insurgents to meet, but representatives have been in touch (Graham-Harrison). "Peace talks are going on with the Taliban. The foreign military and especially the United States itself is going ahead with these negotiations," Karzai said during a speech in Kabul. "The peace negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban movement are ... not yet based on a certain agenda or physical meetings, there are contacts established" (Graham-Harrison). At first, U.S. officials were hesitant to acknowledge the negotiations ... talks will allow U.S. t...

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... got 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 country, under the Vichy regime that worked with the Nazi regime, had "seconded" the slaughter. However, ... the SNCF maintains that it was a victim of the Nazi regime also, forced to carry the deportees on the trains. It also claims that several SNCF employees were also resisters who were killed by the Nazis (AOL News). While many survivors and their descendants ... This American pressure on th...

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... 's Facebook group "Free LP," which raises awareness of his imprisonment, said, "I think we all have things in our past that we would rather not have everyone aware of. Let he who has no sin be the first to cast the stone." Waggoner's rap sheet goes on to list many other incidents (Troutman). However, despite Waggoner's criminal history, it is pretty clear to ... people in Haiti that he is innocent (Troutman). Sebring said, "I don't understand where the confusion comes from. We have solid proof that the ... he was the wrong man to arrest not only because he's innocent but because "I'm co...

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... compound were not injured. No one from the U.S. rescue team was injured (Vogt). Prime Minister Cameron, defended the original reports, saying, "The statements were made in good faith and on the basis of the information that we received. I want to assure Mr. and Mrs. Norgrove that I will do everything I possibly can to establish the full facts and give them certainty ... about how their daughter died." He added that the rescue team approached the operation "as if she were a U.S. citizen." He went on to say, "The US forces placed their own lives in danger. General Petraeus has told me the...

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... a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, creates his list of wasteful spending in Washington. As a ranking member of the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Senator Coburn has a ringside seat to some of the atrocities of U.S. government spending. His 2008 report, released in mid-December lists 65 examples of wasteful spending that add up to more than $1.3 billion in taxpayer money. Budget insiders might say, "$1.3 billion is a ... spending according to the Congressional Budget Office's Monthly Projections for November 2008, Senator Coburn's report is raising eyebrows on Capital Hill and ...

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