... state, and - not many have made mention of this yet - she represents a state that has thus far played absolutely no significant role in any US election. Though many see her nomination as a jaded ploy by the McCain campaign, the choice of Sarah Palin still has some resonance with Hillary Clinton supporters who, whether out of racism or spite, would rather vote for anyone than Obama ... Ariel Sharon's stroke, for instance) or worse yet, the move is a desperation play to attract young voters and women to his campaign. Second, the choice is so surprising that many Republican advocates, incl...

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The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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Following a series of political assassinations of Afghanistan's political leaders, the United States' military officers have seen dramatic improvement in securing the country. Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden, President Obama announced the hasty drawdown of the extra "surge" troops he ordered to finish off the al-Qaeda regime. However, there have been several recent acts of violence that have some officials worried. Following the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's half-brother, a suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters, killing twelve policemen and a ch...

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... allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too. The Internet has, it seems, forever changed the way Americans experience their political lives. The Internet has infiltrated our everyday lives in countless ways: We bank online, we shop online, we work online, and we form social relationships online. And, in the presidential race of 2008, Americans got political online ... YouTube is such an enormously popular website across a diverse demographic and because the new arrangement allowed for the people's voices to be heard, more a...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... , three who previously retired, a New Jersey correction officer, a former New York City Sanitation Department police officer, and two other unidentified men. The majority of the men all worked at the Brooklyn station house sometime in the past. These eight men accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to drive a caravan of M-16 rifles and handguns, as well as stolen merchandise, across state lines. For these crimes, they ... for payment. During this, he developed a relationship with Officer William Masso, who proposed that the two work together to illegally obtain and sell contraband in th...

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... for June 12, 2009. While certainly 6.5 million households that now receive signal via antennae rather than from satellite or cable will turn on their sets on the day of the switch to see snow, the fact is that those folks represent about 2% of the American populous, and tend to be people who don't consider television to be a priority or who may find greater productivity as ... to raise a stink. Their sets will merely become trash. One overall affect, then of the decision to do away with analog television for the United States is that landfills will pick up about 6 million energy hogging ...

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... of users and developers of these programs and usually you should get help quickly. On the other side, not everything is great about the open-source applications. To begin with, in most cases they do not come with support from the developers so you can rely only on the community to help you, and that is not enough if you really have a problem which has to ... your business since it comes free of charge and has most features of the originals. But if you need more professional features and constant support from the developers you should think about the investment in software which will pro...

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... give mostly demographic information, as a guide, and cannot assist in profiling fugitive criminals to give closure to open cases. The information being researched in this brief paper is the characteristics of the parent prison population and their children and the BJS is a very useful start before further study. Found in the BJS is a very alarming aspect of prisoner data in that many prisoners have minor children, who very rarely ... incarcerated. There is much to be taken from this database to help gather information to help bring about programs to help the population mentioned above i...

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... any other presidential changeover. First, this is the first time the country has been in a war situation during a presidential election since the 60s, during the Johnson-Nixon changeover. That will unquestionably affect the decisions Obama makes during his adjustment period. President-elect Obama will have to make important - and difficult - decisions about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, decisions that will affect the more than 180,000 military personnel stationed ... in this two countries. It is well known that Obama has a longstanding opposition to the war in Iraq, and he has vowed...

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... that ran simultaneously with her news conference in London. "Just as the experiences of reading requires that the imaginations of the author and the reader work together to create the story, so Pottermore will be built, in part, by you, the reader. The digital generation will be able to enjoy a safe, unique online reading experience built around the Harry Potter books. Pottermore will be the place where fans of any age can ... she has been "hoarding for years" (Clark). Rod Henwood, CEO of Pottermore, reported that Rowling has already written at least 18,000 words of new material for the...

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... back through psychological, emotional, spiritual, and physical force if need be (Lengel). In 2009, two of the church's top members, Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, went on record for the first time since leaving the group. From the inside circle, Rathbun and Rinder both saw the abuse being dealt by the church. Their first report listed several issues involving Scientology's highest leaders, particularly David ... this condoned discrimination. Furthermore, Haggis believed that Davis had lied in an interview with CNN in May of 2008 when he denied that the church had a policy of disconnect...

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... child sex offender lives in the near vicinity, aided by the tabloid. The Guardian first notified Payne of the intrusion, but email newsletter Popbitch made the same declaration earlier this month. In fact, Rebekah Brooks, The News of the World editor, provided Payne with the phone that was later hacked, under the guise that the phone could help her with her campaign for the law. Payne was ... the private investigator hired by The News of the World. The list contained about 4,000 people rumored to be targets of the tabloid's phone scandal (Somaiya). "The last edition of The News of the Wo...

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... result," said Ketanji Brown Jackson, the commission's vice chairman (Serrano). The law will go into effect in November barring that Congress does not veto it, although that is highly unlikely. The average crack sentence will be reduced by about 37 months, which could save more than $200 million in the next five years according to the federal Bureau of Prisons. Almost six percent of the federal inmate population will be ... released. However, the reductions are not made automatically to every prisoner. Each prisoner must file a petition ... ...

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... education and a focus on removing "barriers that make it harder for you to compete - from the tax code to the regulatory system" (Dennis). In an attempt to reconcile the differences between his administration and the US Chamber of Commerce, Obama walked the block to the Chamber headquarters. Once there, he joked "I'm in the interest of being more neighborly. Maybe we would have gotten off on a better foot if I had ... and helping to deliver the House majority to the Republicans last fall. In turn, Obama accused the group of using foreign money to fund ads attacking the Democrats, an all...

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... industry be next on the government bailout list? Not likely. Despite the woes over the decline in the economy, travel is down only slightly compared to previous years. In fact, according to a study by an independent group representing travel agents, while 68 percent of Americans would describe the economic conditions as "terrible", only 22% of that 68% has actually cancelled a flight, or plans to ... reschedule at a cheaper time. While even the slightest downturn is unexpected, the ... have been lost and many have lost their homes or are in danger of losing their homes, it seems that ...

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... of a similar environmental tragedy on July 16th after a pipeline owned by China National Petroleum Corporation exploded in the Yellow Sea, immediately sparking a 15-hour fire consisting of 100-foot flames (Uncoverage). China's crisis is one of a lesser degree than the crisis in the Gulf, according to the Associated Press, who reported that the spill had only spread over 165 square miles, just a small area ... compared to the 2,700 square miles covered by BP's oil spill (Adams). MSNBC.com further reported that China's spill released approximately 400,000 gallons ... workers continually i...

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... 300 for qualifying individuals with at least $3000 in income, $600 for a head of household with $50,000 in income, $900 for a single parent with one child and $50,000 in income, $1200 for joint filers with two children and $60,000 in income, or the $2400 rebate amount mentioned above. In addition, after lobbying by groups supporting senior citizens, social security payments were ... added to the "eligible" income, so most seniors on fixed incomes who filed a tax return and did not owe tax over the amount of the rebate have or will receive a check from the federal government. The rebate c...

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... concludes that a sexual encounter between Strauss-Kahn and the housekeeper undoubtedly occurred, but little else of what the accuser has said during the case is believable (Dwyer). The holes in the case include the housekeeper's asylum application and possible links to criminal activities ... 's lawyers to discuss whether to dismiss the felony charges. State Supreme Court will convene in Manhattan on July 1st, and Justice Michael J. Obus is rumored to be considering easing the outrageous bail conditions he originally imposed on ... the housekeeper met with an incarcerated man the day she ...

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... to come up with a way to get ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor to the marketplace as swiftly as possible, which will help create quality jobs, and make our businesses more competitive," Obama said in the address, which was taped at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. During his visit, Obama was inspired by mini-robots that explored water and sewer pipes (Kuhnhnen ... ). Pittsburgh is an important city for Obama's plan to build up the middle class in America (Murphy). The robots are the invention of RedZone Robotics, who is involved with ... weekly topic. Howe...

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... - but very strong - emotions since its announcement, passed the first stage in front of the federal appellate court. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati found that the law's insurance requirement is constitutional (Levey). "We find that the minimum coverage provision is a valid exercise of legislative power by Congress under the Commerce Clause," the panel concluded after a 2-1 majority rejected the challenge by the conservative Thomas More Law Center (Levey). Judge Martin, who ... took the lead on the decision in Thomas More Law Center v. Obama said, "The ... ...

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... recommends a change in how awards are made (Andrew and Kuhnhenn). The proposals that did not change from the original draft include a gradual increase in the Social Security retirement age to 68 by 2050 and 69 by 2075. The cost-of-living for the programs will decrease, and the cap on income subject to Social security taxes will increase. The plan also calls for an increase in the price of gasoline by fifteen cents per ... gallon. The federal worker pay will ... ...

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... offensive as they initiated air strikes on South Ossetia rebel forces. According to the Republic of Georgia, just as rebel forces had become aggressive toward Georgian cities, Russian troops had slowly been building a huge presence in the region. On August 8, in response to air raids on South Ossetia by Georgia that killed hundreds of civilians, Russia marched full force into South Ossetia ... and not only chased the Georgian troops out of the state, but also invaded Georgia and embarked on a bitter four-day killing spree ... with a cease-fire order brokered for the two nations by Fran...

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... (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) came nowhere near that figure when predicting the worst-case scenario last year in a global warming report in which they estimated a possible 6.4% increase of greenhouse gasses by 2099. One problem lies in the developing countries that make up just over half of the world's carbon emissions. According to the report, China is the leader in greenhouse gas production, having added 2 billion tons of carbon to ... the atmosphere in "07. India's emissions are also on the rise, and they are poised to ... ...

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... of an organization that is trying to cross international borders in order to promote overall sustainability. Sustainability is the environmental idea of making a much less dramatic impact on an environment by gauging all actions like food production, water consumption and development. Since the Earth Institute is interested in the study of all of Earth's systems, the idea of the sustainability of tourism is something that they have conducted ... research on. Another one of the Earth Institute's projects is to conduct research on some of the correlations between poverty and environmental...

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