... for and commitment to each other in the same public way heterosexual couples have always enjoyed. On the other side are those who state that, by their very nature, homosexual relationships are promiscuous, and so allowing same-sex marriages would increase the divorce rate. Further, opponents of gay marriage say that it would taint the long-standing tradition of the institution of marriage - that is, marriage between one man ... "legal union" as opposed to "legal marriage". Allowing the definition of marriage to include two men or two women, they say, would open the door to all kinds of ...

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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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... . Initially designed to give low and middle class taxpayers a little relief in light of real estate downturns, rising inflation and high gas and food prices, the act has been further expanded since that time and offers a variety of incentives for both businesses and individuals. The overall goal of the Act is to "jumpstart the economy." Individuals and couples filing Federal Income Tax Returns for 2007, even up ... 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 fil...

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... I would also like to express my respect and esteem for my colleague and friend, Agustin Carstens," she said (Rooney). The global financial institution desperately needed a new leader because of their involvement with the European Union and the European Central Bank to provide financial support to Greece and other troubled European economies who need immediate help (Rooney). Lagarde is already ... will make it my overriding goal that our institution continues to serve its entire membership with the same focus and the same spirit," said Lagarde (Rooney). The fund was originally established...

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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 ... the result of the death of their television signal. While some might argue that the switchover unfairly affects the poor, people who cannot afford neither new televisions, nor the converter boxes that make recepti...

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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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... Glen Mulcaire's list, 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 World made great play of the paper's relationship with the Payne family," said Tom Watson, a parliament member who investigated the phone scandal. "I have nothing but contempt for the people that did this" (Somaiya). Brooks testified that The News of the World did, in ... fact, give Payne a cell phone "for the ... ...

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... a Web posting directed at the new president, the group's leader warns that "a heavy legacy of crime awaits" him. The message, reported to be from Ayman al-Zawahiri, Obama is criticized for his position on foreign policy and Israel, and is ridiculed for his view on the state of the world. For many people, the election of Barack Obama marked the culmination of the efforts of leaders of the African-American rights movement, such ... as Malcolm X. But according to the speaker in this message, Obama is nothing like those men, who he refers to as "honourable black ... "You were born to a Musl...

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... are not equal, therefore any law that states this is just a formality and not a reality and if children fail to conform to their roles there is said to be an abnormality. The Feminist Movement, therefore, has failed thus far. Pollitt highlights how even scientists have sought to demonstrate genetic differences, proving that boys and girls have different preferences for toys and that ... to be anyone other than who they are. Without a change in attitude, this trend will continue, as the parents of today were the first recipients of equal rights and have not changed, because of it. Even i...

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... was unlike any other, in a number of ways. There was the possibility of a female vice-president pitted against the possibility of an African-American president - both potential history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States 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 ... ...

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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 travel industry has weathered far worse declines in domestic travel than ... lost their homes or are in d...

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... is a large community of programmers all over the world who work on these problems. Because of that these programs stay stable and secure for the end-users. And finally, if you have any problems you can ask for help from the community 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 ... free of charge and has most features of th...

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... presidential candidate Herman Cain suddenly recalled the financial settlement he was a part of years before. In the late 1990's, as the head of the National Restaurant Association, Cain battled two sexual harassment claims involving two different women, although he later remembered the first accusation and denies remembering the second accusation altogether (Oliphant). "My general counsel said this started out where (an accuser) and her lawyer were ... termination settlement," Cain told Fox News (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that he did not recall such an instance, but when pressed later...

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... shrinking it drastically (Barstow). One thing most of the Tea Partiers do have in common though is the fact that most had previously been uninvolved in politics. Not until the recession hit did many of them feel the need to contribute their input. After seeing the jobs lost, the homes foreclosed, and the retirement funds depleted, they felt an increasing need to know the root cause and who to blame for ... it. Many believe that their constitutional rights are being ignored by government (Barstow). However, for the majority of the Tea Partiers, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats h...

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... but for now she remains free on bond. She could serve up to 10 years in prison for each of the three counts (Kelleher). Several instances of economic espionage have been occurring around the country. In fact, the day that Judge Castillo found Jin guilty of stealing trade secrets, a Chinese company in California was indicted for conspiracy to commit economic espionage after stealing secrets ... trade secrets from CME Group. Many officials are worried that the Chinese government has many spies attempting to steal business secrets (Kelleher). US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald highlighted the ...

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... the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient," Obama reprimanded during the annual dinner of the Human Rights Council, the largest gay rights organization in the nation. "We don't believe in standing silent when that happens" (MSNBC). "We don't believe in the kind of smallness that says it's okay for a stage full of political leaders - one of whom could end up being the President of the United States - being silent when an ... American solider is booed," he continued (Carbone). Conveniently, the scene at the debate provided Obama with the opportunity to at...

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... against it would be needed. Amendment 2 received 62 percent of votes of support, denying those in same-sex unions the opportunity to enter into a legally binding marriage contract. Many supporters of the ban believe that it will stop judges who are activists from performing a gay marriage. Those who oppose the bill say that it is an unnecessary feature since there is a law in existence already that denies ... same-sex couples to marry. They worry that the wording of the amendment is too vague and that there will be problems for both straight and gay couples who are not ... married and ...

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... that included air raids and bombings and displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians while raising civilian death and injury tolls into the thousands. The cause of the conflict goes back to the fall of the former Soviet Union, the division of states, and then the succession of certain states from Georgia, including South Ossetia and Abkhazia. According to the Associated Press, NATO came out in support of Georgia after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev refused to ... over who started it in the first place continues. According to Georgian officials, Russia started it by mobilizing tens o...

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... offender who was convicted of murdering 11 women, faces the death penalty unless his defense team can successfully convince the jury that Sowell was provoked by post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses. Sowell, who is an ex-Marine, abused the bodies after the women had died, and then stashed their bodies around his house, prompting neighbors to complain of a foul stench, which ... they believed was coming from a neighborhood sausage shop. On July 22nd, he was convicted of 11 counts of aggravated murder and more than 70 other charges, including abusing ... difficult for...

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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 brought ... I'm going to make up for it." The two groups got off on a bad start after the Chamber spent tens of millions of dollars fighting Obama's health-care bills, opposin...

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... many state secrets in his books, many of which concern Barak. Olmert accuses Barak of being indecisive and timid, as well as trying to prevent "daring security operations" while Olmert held the position of prime minister. These accusations look particularly bad on Barak considering he is the man who will have to decide whether or not to order an attack on Iran's nuclear weapons (Kalman). Many ... people are concerned that Olmert will reveal Israel's participation in a recent bombing of a nuclear reactor site in Syria. Israel has been ... careful not to confirm its role in the Syrian ra...

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... million to 184 million gallons now polluting the Gulf, although The Huffington Post believes the damage is dramatically underestimated. They estimate that the storage tank had a capacity of 27.7 million gallons and had just refilled. According to them, more oil has been collected in the cleanup process than was reported to have been leaked. The explosion occurred after workers continually injected an agent to strip sulfur from oil ... after an oil storage tank was replenished by a tanker. Afterwards, workers released oil from ... ...

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... two products. This follows that if you produce more of one product then the resulting production for the other product will become lesser because the PPF shows an inverse relation to the production of one product from the production of the other product. Opportunity cost is the amount of output of one product that is sacrificed because of limited resources in order to increase the output of another product by one unit. When a country has a lower ... opportunity cost in producing one specific product than the other countries ... ...

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... to attack on the eve of Ramadan did not coincide well with their declaration to come to a peaceful solution. A presidential adviser, Ersat Hurmuzlu, said the military was "part of the problem, not part of the solution" (Derhally). The Foreign Ministry agreed, "The operations will not only make no contribution to securing public order, they also have an extremely negative impact on the process of necessary reform. The events raise questions over the Syrian administration ... 's goodwill and sincerity in the search for a peaceful resolution" (Derhally). The U.K. chimed in that, "Assad is m...

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... offenders and those in criminal justice fields. Without this information, many needed programs would not be initiated and ineffectual programs would continue. A weakness of this database, however, is that is contains only quantitative data, painting only a small part of the profile of an offender, these statistics 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...

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