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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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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... settlement," Cain told Fox News (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that he did not recall such an instance, but when pressed later by radio host, Laura Ingraham, Cain suddenly remembered the instance. "The word settlement suggested to me some sort of legal settlement," he explained about the mix-up, "and later as I thought about it and thought about it and I did recall an agreement with ... the lady that left who made the false accusation. So that's when I said yes, there was an agreement." Ingraham and Robin Meade from CNN were reluctant to let it go at that, demanding to know why Cain was...

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... - 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 infiltrated our everyday lives in countless ways: We bank online, we ... race of 2008, Americans got political online. The Internet gave voters a new, direct link to their candidates. News giant CNN and pop-culture portal YouTube...

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... her article entitled, "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls" illuminates a very powerful social movement in history that has succeeded in many institutions. This was the Feminist Movement that spawned reform in politics, the workplace, but has failed in the most important institution in American society, the family. Since the family is where children are initially socialized into the people that they will become, if the family fails to ... not been broken by Feminists and all scientific arguments for behavior deemed inappropriate for a child's sex is used a "back up" of sorts to explain so-cal...

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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 ... just like he s...

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... 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 ... got off on a bad start after the Chamber spent tens of millions of dollars fighting Obama's health-care bills, opposing key elements of the financial regulation law and helping to deliver the ...

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... of economic espionage for China. Jin illegally downloaded 1,000 of the company's proprietary documents, which included important business secrets before trying to board a plane to Beijing. Federal agents found the files on her computer and other electronic devices during a random security search at the airport (Kelleher). Jin simultaneously worked for Motorola as well as a Beijing-based company called Kai Sun News Technology Co., or SunKaisens, which is ... affiliated with the Chinese military (Harris ... ...

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... David Miscavige, who succeeded L. Ron Hubbard as Scientology's leader. The issues included physical abuse of staff, mental abuse and cruelty, high pressure marketing tactics, character assignation, and threats. Miscavige was reported to have taken ruthless control of the organization after Hubbard's death and assumed chairmanship of the Religious Technology Center, the highest governing body is the Church of Scientology. "He is one of the most capable, intelligent individuals I've ever met, but L. Ron ... Hubbard says the intelligence scale doesn't necessarily line up with the sanity sc...

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... constitutional ban on the union of same-sex couples in the state. Amendment 2 would classify a marriage as a union that is only allowable between a man and a woman. To overturn the amendment, less than 60 percent of votes 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 i...

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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 last 11 years," but that "it was not a personal gift." She also...

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... ) but that if a student repeatedly relied upon Wikipedia as a source the student's grade would be reduced. Repeated infractions could result in a failing grade in the course. Wyatt, the chair of the history department, stated that "the important point that [they] wish to communicate to all students taking courses and submitting work in our department in the future is that they cite Wikipedia at their peril." Despite what many proponents ... of Wikipedia claim, the proposed sanctions against students" use of it are not based in the fact that it is an online source. The Internet is an inva...

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While the eyes of the world were focused on Beijing and athletic competition, Russia and the Soviet Republic of Georgia participated in a deadly competition of their own: a conflict now being referred to as the Russia-Georgia Conflict. It is a conflict with a long history, but the latest chapter began on August 8 when military troops from Russia entered South Ossetia, a state that has declared its dependence from Georgia, with the stated goal of removing ... 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,...

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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 ... 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 checks are distributed to citizens ...

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... that MF Global intermingled customers' money with company funds breaks a fundamental rule of Wall Street regulations. Although Corzine has not been accused of any wrongdoing just yet, as head of the brokerage firm, it is his duty to assess and manage customer accounts each and every day (Protess). "It's kind of considered the third rail of the brokerage industry that when you're holding your customers' funds in their ... money to be temporarily missing in bankruptcy cases, but not in the magnitude of MF Global's case. An internal worker said the money was "stuck in the system" because b...

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... banks, on their ability to compromise (Rooney) "It must be done in a concerted, collective way," she said. "All the lenders must come to the bedside of Greece and Greece must itself take charge in a responsible manner" (Rooney). She is also a surprising successor because the IMF, which is made up of 187 member countries, traditionally votes for a Western European official. However, many developing nations were very happy about ... the change. They argued that the IMF should consider candidates from rising economic powers in Asia and South Africa (Rooney). "I will make it my overriding g...

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... recently published excerpts, Olmert revealed 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 ... not aske...

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... their adolescent children. Commonly, middleaged parents and their adolescent children argue, each uncomprehending of the other's viewpoint, about the importance of the youngster's working toward a socially approved goal" (p. 285). Just as there is a well known "generation gap" concerning other views about what is important in life, then, these divergent views about the importance of punctuality is characteristic of some cultures as well as different age groups. For instance, Galatzer-Levy and Cohler ... add that, "The importance of being on time increases in industrial societies, where ...

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... and many have lost their homes or are in danger of losing their homes, it seems that the bulk of Americans are more plagued by the promise of woe than the reality thereof. Internationally, the economic news for the travel industry is even better. 43 percent of international respondents to the same survey stated that they saw economic conditions as "terrible" and of those, only 15% have cancelled or delayed travel plans ... as the result of a sluggish or receding economy. In a time when gas prices ... ...

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... 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 attack his Republican rivals inconspicuously. His poll numbers have been ... ...

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... Others wish to completely reorder the political system, mostly by 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 ... Partiers' attacks in a recent meeting with Congressional Republicans. He complained that depicting him as a would-be despo...

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... this area after working on the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989, applauded the efforts, "Very low-tech. The thing is that it worked," although he did express fear for the possible health concerns that workers might face resulting from their exposure to the oil (The Huffington Post). Although this most recent spill is nowhere near the magnitude of the spill in the Gulf, it still holds some ... drastic consequences for China, both environmentally and financially. China National Petroleum Corporation is Asia's biggest oil and gas producer. The spill and the shutting down of a major pipeline have ...

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... you buy a man a horse and call it transportation in a world full of cars and freeways, you do him no favors. This is the sort of thinking that is killing analog television. The effects of the full switchover to digital television broadcasts are likely to be as catastrophic as the Y2K phenomenon proved to be - it's a lot of hoopla over a bang that will likely be less than a fizzle. That's ... 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 fa...

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... Obama. On 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 Americans". The me...

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... 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 very useful start before ... further study. Found in the BJS is a very alarming aspect of prisoner data in that many prisoners have minor...

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