... 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 ... of oil as compared to the 94 million to 184 million gallons now polluting the Gulf, although The Huffington Post believes the damage is dramatically underestimated. They estimate that the sto...

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... a lawsuit in federal court on August 31st in an attempt to prevent the merging of AT&T and T-Mobile, in which AT&T offered $39 billion for T-Mobile's partnership. The lawsuit focused on T-Mobile's "disruptive" force in the industry, bringing attention to the company's many "firsts," which included the first Google Android smartphone. The lawsuit brought further attention to T-Mobile's aggressive pricing strategy, the sign of a healthy company (Reardon). However, AT&T argued that ... its acquisition of T-Mobile would create many jobs in the US at a time when the country desperately needs...

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... 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 automotive, airline, aerospace, electrical components, electronics and steel industry control 50 percent of the whole business. • Third world debt amounts to 1.8 trillion dollars. • Only 358 billionaires have a total ... dollars which is equivalent to the total income of 2.5 billion people. • 20 percent of the world's richest people receive 82.7 percent of the world's total income wh...

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... steel industry control 50 percent of the whole business. - Third world debt amounts to 1.8 trillion dollars. - Only 358 billionaires have a total income of 760 billion dollars which is equivalent to the total income of 2.5 billion people. - 20 percent of the world's richest people receive 82.7 percent of the world's total income while the 20 percent poorest receive 1.4 percent of the total world's income.[2] Our current ... system now wallows in hard contradictions that seem hard to resolve. Many of those who produce the food such as the farmers in Third World ... buildings live in shan...

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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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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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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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... it as long as those new programs also stay open source. In this way, everyone is free to modify it to his own needs and develop it in any fashion he wants. Absolute majority of these programs comes free of charge, but without support from the vendors. The open-source software has recently gained popularity in governmental and commercial sector, especially in some European countries ... . Apart from the obvious advantage it has over the programs you need to pay for - that it comes free of charge, open-source software has other good sides ... as well. First of all, it is the availability ...

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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 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 ... ," Cain told Fox News (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that he did not recall such an instance, but when pressed later by radio ho...

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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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... impossible online, core intimacy happens in the mind among people who are communicating. In real life, a couple can slow intimacy down by involving themselves in a movie or a game. They don't have to actually speak. The benefit of internet dating, when it comes to intimacy is that speaking is a requirement. People get to know each other very well before hopping in the sack together. 5) Privacy- When ... you start a relationship online, nobody has to know. It's your own. It belongs to the two of you and nobody else. There are no external ... influences guiding the relationship. That open...

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... 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 ... online, and we form social relationships online. And, in the presidential race of 2008, Americans got political online. The Internet gave voters a new, direct link to their candidates. News g...

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... 2,000 calories required for an average person, and you will come to realize something. That is a lot of food. Still, when you work out for five hours a day six days out of the week you need to take in enough calories for energy and muscle repair. This staggering amount of food just comes with the territory. Michael Phelps won eight gold medals. Everyone wonders what ... allows someone to achieve a seemingly impossible goal, and Michael Phelps has shown the world that it can be done. His training regimen, his ... very genetic makeup, and his eating habits have put him on the road to ......

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... than no healthcare at all. Where the bill comes off of the rails is in the minutia of trying to regulate morality through legislation. Without fail, every man, woman, and child in America wants to feel like someone will look after them when they are in need of medical services. Nobody wants to suffer through red tape and rules. When it comes to healthcare for ourselves, we are all ... guilty of extreme selfishness, and rightly so. When we seek to affect a social bill on the basis of what services we do or do ... not agree with morally, we seek to create healthcare that serves ourselves...

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... of entry. Improve Our Immigration System Obama and Biden believe we must fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill. Remove Incentives to Enter Illegally Obama and Biden will remove incentives to enter the country illegally by cracking down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants. Bring People ... Obama and Biden support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for ...

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We have all experienced it: the unmistakable squeeze that comes from having to tighten one's economic belt. Corners have to be cut, priorities re-organized, and compromises made. And the crunch is perhaps brought even more sharply into focus during the holiday season, when the pressure to spend is at its highest. This year, predictions for holiday spending were very low, but analysts were surprised: Spending ... dramatic decrease in its workforce. Starting with part-time workers and trickling down to those in full-time employment, the risk of losing one`s job will be a very real threat to mor...

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... in Self-Help Magazine that 7-15% of juveniles treated for sexually abusive behavior will commit a further offense at some later point. Sexually reactive children communicate to others in ways that are sexual because the behavior is familiar to them. They may have watched or engaged in sexual activity. Although sexual abuse is a terrible act against a person, sometimes young victims can't understand ... age level. (Ex: Dildos, vibrators, condoms, etc). .Simulates intercourse with toys, dolls, other children, animals, or adults. .Appears to have little or no age-appropriate distrust of str...

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... their homes and families. We've heard a lot about Wall Street and the banks and how greed brought them down. We did not hear 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 ... homes. In bedroom communities of larger cities, entire economies were built on the bed of sand that was the housing construction industry. Small town budgets collapsed with the housing boom. In some small towns, such as North ...

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... is affected that they do things that are unconventional, immoral and against the law. They tend to lose their identity and judgment. For some cases, it would be too late for them to realize that that they were already hooked with heroin and their lives are ruined. History of Heroin The heroin comes from morphine which is a natural substance extracted from seedpod of opium poppy ... . The opium poppy was discovered and cultivated in Mesopotamia about 3400BC. It was until the 19th century that the chemical analysis of opium was revealed. Most ... of its content could be ascribed to two in...

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... , less fossil fuels are used than if those turnips were shipped from Mexico. There are other reasons why consumers choose to eat local foods. The most important of these is the transparency of the production process. You can see the farmer that grew the tomato or see the cow that ends up in your freezer. Domestic food is processed using domestic laws. Foreign producers have differing standards ... picked ripe in August. Eating locally forces us to get back in tune with the seasons: peas in the spring, tomatoes in the summer, squash in the fall, and oranges in the winter. Eating locally i...

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... points he determined as untrue had been "in the context of alarmism and exaggeration," according to The Times Online Edition of October 11, 2007. However, a look at recent news seems to show that Mr. Gore's critics are and will continue to be proven wrong at calling him an "alarmist." The following evidence is likely just the "tip of the iceberg." The Associated Press reported on August 27 of this ... taken into account that change yet." Reports are coming in that large amounts of methane gas are being released into the world's oceans from the melting of long frozen Arctic sea ice. Meth...

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... 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 ... (Schneiderman). Emanuel also targeted the city's community college and job training programs and encouraged them to train workers to succeed in today's modern jobs but also in the jobs of tomorrow. Notoriously known f...

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... but they are often surrounded by less-productive wells that typically cost more to drill than the gas they produce is worth. Furthermore, the gas from the successful wells is falling much faster than energy companies originally thought, reducing their profits in the long run (Urbina). The skeptical experts fear the repercussions if the drilling does not go as planned. Federal and state lawmakers are increasing ... behind them, but proponents argue that all forms for energy include risks and environmental costs. So far, shale gas has not proved to be any more harmful than our other resour...

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... at legal temp companies see about one-tenth of the salary that board-certified lawyers hired for document reviews would have seen ten years ago. However, a recent turn has produced a new outlet for hiring lawyers and it comes from an unexpected place (Timmons). At one point, outsourcing seemed to simply add to the demise of the American economy, but now these outsourcing firms are ... reaching out to American lawyers to handle their legal affairs. Of course salaries are not where they used to be; in fact, salaries for outsourced work typically stays within ... electronic data for federal...

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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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