... from gaining significant share in the market. However, the same experts believe Google is more vulnerable to competition than Microsoft was at the time because of the nature of the Internet. Like Microsoft, Google is now realizing the downfall of its widespread success; significant market share brings the scrutiny of antitrust watchdogs (Huffington Post). In the month of May, Google reached unknown ... Microsoft's Windowns operating system. Their rival, Apple, was near bankruptcy and switching from Microsoft was extremely costly, time consuming, and complicated. Companies would have to ...

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To add to the growing tension between Iran and the United States, members of the Iranian Parliament's human rights committee have taken a strong, public stand against the planned execution of a woman in Virginia. According to a British newspaper, "the parliamentary human rights committee said her case reflected ...

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... which believes, among other things, that homosexuals can be "converted" into heterosexuals through religious ministry. Both issues sit well with evangelical conservative Christians; a base John McCain desperately needs to remain viable in this election. Other analysts cite the acrimonious rift between the hard-core Clinton backers and the rest of the Democratic Party who would vote for Palin merely ... received a choice speaking spot at the Republican National Convention. The problem with those choices, of course, was their pro-choice stance which annoyed conservative Christians - many o...

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... and it becomes clear that this was a profound moment in his life, when he became aware of the power of story-telling. He goes as far to say that "stories humanize us. They break through our prejudices. When we know someone's story, we've encountered what's real and discarded the flimsy caricature. ... of his or her captive audience. Boyett proposes that people take an inventory the next time one is at a barbeque or some such function to see what person is surrounded by the most people. He believes that it will not be the person, who is sharing their arsenal of collected ... might argue ...

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Believing himself to be a victim of a smear campaign, 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 ... (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's when I s...

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... 's unemployment rate remains painstakingly high. He announced that companies, such as General Electric, United Airlines, and Walgreens, among others, agreed to hire more than 3,000 people since his administration began. He also said the city will focus on filling existing positions to really bring down the unemployment rate (Schneiderman). "There are 120,000 job openings in Chicago," said Emanuel, who served as ... House senior staffer. "Yet we have 9 percent unemployment. Those two facts should not go together" (Schneiderman). Emanuel also targeted the city's community college and job t...

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The Notre Dame campus is still in shock over the sudden death of Declan Sullivan, a junior studying film marketing and television and theater (Gay). Sullivan was filming a football practice atop a scissor lift, a portable hydraulic lift that allows people to videotape team drills from as high as 40 feet above practice field, when the lift collapsed from high winds (Auman). The afternoon that Sullivan died winds reached up to 51 mph in South Bend, according to the National Weather Service. Students even struggled to walk to class (Hall). Hours before his death, Sullivan tweeted about his predic...

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... dying were everywhere, crowded into any building that would hold them. The fallen were buried in makeshift graves, with no headstones to even identify them. It would take over a year to finally enterr all the bodies that fell there that day. Gettysburg stands as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Only ... two minute speech. Those two minutes transformed Gettysburg from a battlefield into a symbol, and gave an historical meaning to the sacrifice of those who had lost their lives, while serving as an inspiration to the living. By invoking the guarantees of human equality in the Declar...

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... his relatives, but remained unemotional as the judge berated him for his behavior (Ryan). "Yipes! Talk about blaming the victim," Judge Pastor said, referring to Murray's comment on television that Jackson had "entrapped" him. "Not only isn't there any remorse, there is umbrage and outrage on the part of ... the decedent. He has absolutely no sense of remorse, 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 that Murray was more in...

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... 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 ... hopefully that is the best outcome we want - or if he resists, he will be killed," said Guma el-Gamaty, a spokesman for the rebel party (Kirkpatrick). While rebel victory seems to be dr...

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The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women recently awarded $10 million in grants to 13 initiatives in 18 countries. The UN Trust Fund, which is managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, or UNIFEM, was established in 1996 by the United Nations, and still remains the only multilateral grant-making mechanism solely devoted to supporting local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls. Its recent grant completed the UN Trust Fund's 14th grant-making cycle of 2009, which awarded a total of $20.5 million to 26 projects ...

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... an emailed statement he reportedly wrote that the university "strongly condemns the anti-Semitic remarks made by Helen Thomas" (Collins). As a daughter of Lebanese immigrants in Detroit, Thomas is believed to have had problems with Jews. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club and the first female member of the White House Correspondents Association. After reporting on ... the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as receiving over thirty honorary degrees. The Helen Thomas award was given out each year by Wayne State's Journalism Institute for Media Diversity t...

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... for basic functions like feeding, mating and giving birth. American and Canadian scientists reviewed three examples of polar bears preying on each other from January to April 2004, in northern Alaska and western Canada. In one incident, a bear killed a female of the species in her den shortly after ... she had given birth. In the wild, polar bears do kill each other for population regulation, to exert their dominance, and to gain reproductive advantage. But killing one another for food is much less common. Steven Amstrup, of the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center, ... incidents...

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... beyond oil. This is what we will discuss, the behind factors and what is going on today to turn things around. For centuries now our world has been growing astronomically in technology. Here we are able to work from home over the internet, so it is clear that technology has indeed bettered our lives. ... Before 1885 people were getting from place to place mainly by horse or by boat to cross waters. Although the invention of the car cannot be denied its brilliance one can only ask if a massive amount was necessary. ... taken more seriously by the people. This is a luxury that we have ta...

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... released after serving only eight years of a life sentence because of his ill health. He was diagnosed with prostrate cancer and given three months to live. However, the US and other Western governments have grown increasingly aggravated that he has outlived his sentence and demanded his return following the ... al Sagheer, a member of the National Transitional Council and a legal expert, agree, "Libya has never extradited or handed over its citizens to a foreign country. We shall continue with this principle" (Fox News). A senior judge who originally joined in the uprising against Qadda...

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... 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 involved in these affairs. While in Paris, she advised the Greek government ... to come to terms with the political differences that exist and approve the austerity measures that are currently preventing the country from receiving their next installment l...

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Google, the world's powerhouse search engine, is launching its newest initiative to attempt to break into the social media industry once again. Although the company has already failed several times with Google Buzz, Orkut, and Google Wave ... tweeks that will hopefully prove this new initiative to be successful (Miller). The Google+ project that launched on June 28th is only available to a select group of Google users who will test the product and then invite others to join. Like Facebook, the social networking site allows people to share and discuss status updates, photos and ... sharing with...

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... company has also attacked Nintendo Co., PBS, a Federal Bureau of Investigation affiliate, the Senate, and the CIA. They took a political stance after releasing documents from the Arizona Department Public Safety to protest against a controversial state immigration law (Sherr). After they announced their farewell, LulzSec released files from AOL Corp., AT&T Inc., and the FBI (Sherr). On Twitter, they also encouraged ... stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve" (Bilton). A recent interview with the member whose online alias is "Topiary" ...

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... now fighting against them. Gorbachev questions, "But what's the alternative - another Vietnam? Sending in half a million troops? That wouldn't work" (AOL News). Gorbachev said that the best NATO could hope to achieve was to help the country get back on its feet and rebuild itself after the war (BBC). NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, announced that he is talking ... Afghan security forces in Russia, we can co-operate on counter-narcotics," he said (Burns). Despite Gorbachev's warning, Obama is considering a military request to send in as many as 400,000 more US soldiers to ...

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... feeds, oils and other food products. Ethanol reduces the efficiency of gasoline, and causes problems in some vehicles. It is not the long term solution to our dependence on foreign oil. Algae farming might well be. While the most productive biofuel crop, oil palm, only produces 6,000 litres per hectare ... of land, estimates are that algae could produce almost 100,000 litres of biodiesel a year per hectare. A hectare is equal to 2.47105 acres, so that would be the equivalent of almost 11,000 gallons per acre of land. "Green crude" makes sense ecologically as well. While ... conventional...

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... ? He believes that actions speak louder than his words, is blessed with the right genetics, and he sure knows how to eat. Practice Makes Perfect Michael Phelps sticks to a training regimen that has him working on his swimming six days every week while working out five hours each of those days. This is ... actions speak louder than words and his actions have been seen, and heard, by the world. The Right Stuff Michael Phelps was born to swim. His propensity toward swimming seems built into his genes. He stands a good six feet four inches which is a good start. Add ... to that the fact that...

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... Gaffeld, an epidemiologist at the organization's department of reproductive health and research. She described the contraceptive as "something that a woman can do privately herself and it doesn't need to be remembered to be taken every day. It's also a relatively inexpensive method" (Belluck). "Recommendations regarding contraceptive use, particularly emphasizing the importance of dual protection with condoms and the use of ... is not a factor. Instead, they found more genetic material of HIV in the cervical tissue of women currently using the hormonal contraceptives than those who were...

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... received great backlash from the angered customers. In fact, Bank of America, which is the largest bank in America by deposits, saw its stock plummet 2 percent on Friday morning, adding to the 56 percent decrease the bank's stock has experienced this year. Shares are down 44 percent for the quarter. Additionally, the bank faces multibillion-dollar lawsuits and financial losses from ... well as on cable news channels. Gerri Willis from the Fox Business Network personal shredded her own Bank of America debit card on air, claiming, "Right here, right now, I'm going to show Bank of America ...

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... in the special election scheduled for September 13th. 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 ... York's 9th Congressional District, which 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 t...

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... effective vaccine. Because of these drastic measures, the number of reported wild polio cases, the kind that most often results in paralysis, has decreased from hundreds in 2009 to just one case in 2011, none of which were in Uttar Pradesh. Furthermore, places such as the slumbs of New Delhi and Mumbai boast record-level numbers of immunizations and ... younger than five the oral polio vaccine two or three times a year, while high risk areas such as Uttar Pradesh distribute the vaccine ten times annually (Magnier). "It's a little premature to take out the champagne," said Lieven Desome...

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