... 502 more missing. However, The Associated Press believed the death count to be 113 (MSNBC.com). Although there remains to be a discrepancy between the exact death count, this is typical in the recent aftermath of a disaster. The tsunami left a tragic scene in its wake. Few search-and-rescuers were able to get to the islands, leaving only fishermen to deal with the dead and search for the living. According to Edison Salelo ... Baja, the Mentawai district chief, corpses were strewn about because there were ... ...

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... in a way that reaches to the audience on a deep level and shows none of the nostalgia and nationalism that many war stories and poems utilize. The speaker of the poem, serves as the expert on war, as a veteran of it. But, unlike poems that may convey the bravery and courage of battle, this soldier and speaker focuses on the negative and pervasive state of battle. He brings the battle to light, so to ... and patriotism is just as important to note, as is the idea of sleeping and losing oneself by retreating from rational, lucid thought. The narrator in lines 5 and 6 uses both the nightma...

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Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was recently in America this week for the UN General Assembly being held in New York City. The problem with this is, that puts her right in the fire, so to speak. She and her country have defaulted on billions in debt owed to U.S. creditors. President Kirchner has repeatedly ignored the U.S. federal court system and supposedly removed any of her country's assets to outside the U.S. and away from collectors. With her being in New York this week for the UN talks, U.S. bondholders' have become more upset due this obvious slap in the face to the U.S. Justice s...

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... absolute living hell," Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin were released from prison, where they were currently serving out their sentences for the murder of three second-graders in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Steven Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were found dead in a ditch with their bodies mutilated and hog-tied by their ... that they were driven by satanic ritual, regardless of the extreme lack of evidence that they had to indict the boys. Echols and Baldwin entered an Alford plea on three counts of first degree murder, while Misskelley entered...

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... the medication in addition to the 66,000 New Yorkers who already take the pills (The Washington Post). "The New York City health department is a little bit ahead of the curve," said Dr. Michael Saag, who previously served as the chairman of the HIV Medicine Association. "In my opinion, the rest of the country will follow, and I think it will be pretty quick" (The Washington Post). Saag described the current screening for HIV, which uses a CD4 count ... to measure the strength of the immune system, as an ... ...

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... trillion cubic feet of natural gas we would have enough fuel to keep the country going for count them folks 2 days! Another article in the USA Today by Rick Jervis, William M. Welch, and Richard Wolf discusses the possibility of 18 billion barrels of oil off the coasts of the United States including protected areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Santa Barbara. With the addition of these 18 billion barrels of fuel the country could ... keep running for another I love this 2 ½ years! Wow ... ...

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Millions of hotels across the United States nonchalantly discard their visitors' once-used bars of soap every day. In fact, hundreds of millions of soap bars are discarded each year in North American alone. As relatively wealthy Americans, no has thought anything of it - until Derreck Kayongo launched the Global Soap Project (Ruffins). The project began in the early 1990s after Kayongo's first hotel stay in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Ugandan native panicked when he noticed his bathroom soap was being replenished every day despite the fact that he only got one or two uses out of the bars (...

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... locations, making public service announcements on the radio, and using various other media sources to get the word out. It is the belief of CDC as well as other medical personnel that the more informed the public is about MRSA, the better control can be kept on its spread. "Recognizing the signs and receiving treatment in the early stages of a skin infection reduces the chances of the infection becoming severe or spreading," said ... that they can be checked out by a professional. Parents can also help out by informing their kids on how to keep their hands clean by washing often and tak...

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... that is controlled from El Salvador, and it has been decided by those in charge that the local organizations might need a little more training in drug trafficking, racketeering, extortion, etc. So the higher ups in the organization are sending those that can train in these areas, which of course does not look good for the Charlotte area. "There seems to be a concerted effort to better organize ... the gang here in Charlotte," says FBI Special Agent Ray Duda. "And that effort was initiated by leaders ... in El Salvador." The MS13s are not your average gang. They seem to be smart in thei...

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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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U.S. security has seen a dramatic increase since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Although the airlines have been cooperative so far, British Airways is finally voicing its frustration as the security becomes ever so tighter. As many of the traveling public would agree, chairman of British Airways, Martin Broughton, criticized the airport checks proposed by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration for being "completely redundant." At an annual conference of the U.K. Airport Operators Association in London, Broughton explained that the TSA is requiring foreign airports to increase checks on U...

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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 bank ... CNN and pop-culture portal YouTube collaborated on two debates between the candidates, so that potential votes could ask the candidates the questions they wanted answered. Never before ...

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... now those involved with the case are not so sure. There are unanswered questions and details that do not add up. Experts and those involved in the case of the anthrax killer have yet to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Narrowing It Down To catch the killer, the FBI subpoenaed samples of a particular strain of anthrax from labs around the world. They examined these samples for four mutations that would ... help identify a match to the strain that was used to kill five people in 2001 ... . The first sample received from Dr. Bruce Ivins was not properly submitted and was ... ...

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... determined there were nine key errors in scientific fact. Mr. Justice Burton was quoted as saying that some of these 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 year that "sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in...

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... Park Service and Navy Region Hawaii on the lawn of the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, beginning at 7:40 AM Hawaii time. Thousands will attend the ceremony, but the number of Pearl Harbor survivors gets smaller every year (Lynch). Unfortunately, because of the dwindling number of survivors, and the ill health and old age of the remaining ones, this ceremony will be the last one conducted by the survivors' association (Lovett). "We had no choice ... can't do it. People are winding up in nursing homes and intensive care units" (Lovett). Harry Kerr, another survivor and director of the Southe...

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... 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 demanding a huge financial settlement. I don't remember a number. But then he said because there was no basis for ... this, we ended up settling for what would have been a termination settlement," Cain told Fox News (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that h...

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... through the years, the common struggles of those who lived through the pioneering days of Florida's rich history. Floridians especially can easily relate to stories of malaria and mosquito swarms. They can relate to hurricanes, heat and crop devastating frosts, not to mention wildlife problems, from hogs, alligators, cougars, bears and wolves. This is a novel for both Floridians and history buffs and it gets at the essence of the human ... condition. No one is perfect. Everyone is flawed. Those we think are perfect are still susceptible to the forces of nature and of God. While many of ...

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... 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 comply with a cease-fire order brokered for the two ... nations by France. The conflict is far from ... ...

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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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The trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, the personal physician of the late Michael Jackson, took a turn for the worse after the 911 call was played to jurors on September 29th. Murray chose not to call for an ambulance for nearly thirty minutes after he first realized that Jackson needed medical attention - a fact that prosecutors are calling an attempt at a cover-up (Los Angeles Times). Jackson's security guard, Alberto Alvarez, took the stand ... while Jackson was lying on his mattress, a soft surface. Murray then asked, "Does anybody know CPR?" although he was the doctor on hand. Murray then calml...

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... other charges, including abusing corpses and kidnapping. The defense attorneys are pressing for a life sentence without parole because of Sowell's mental instability. However, experts believe that it will be difficult for the jury to sympathize with Sowell because of his standoff attitude during the trial. While the jury was plagued with pictures of the dead bodies bruised and battered and then dumped around the house and yard in trash bags. Mary ... Myers, a psychologist, retired police captain, and teacher at the University of Akron, believes that the jurors will not "buy that he trul...

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... to coincide when she was awaiting trial for the murder of her daughter. An amendment was made to the order on August 1, 2011 that included the words "upon release" to clarify Strickland's intentions (CNN). A spokesman for the Orange County State Attorney's Office, Randy Means, declined to comment on the matter. "We don't think we have jurisdiction. The court is the sentence, and if they think it was ... in jail. Furthermore, Anthony's lawyers have other reasons to dislike Judge Strickland. He began as the judge that presided over her murder trial until April 2010. The defense accused him...

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... popularized back during World War I and World War II. They were meant to help citizens provide for themselves in an attempt to help the war effort. In fact, almost one third of the vegetables consumed in the United States in 1943 came from these Victory Gardens. This time the effort is aimed at helping the environment. What Is A Victory Garden? A victory garden is just a garden, but, at ... it was produced to where you find it in your own neighborhood. The cost is measured in terms of miles traveled and the gallons of fuel it takes to transport it. On average, it travels a distance of 1...

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... prove that banks had a criminal intent. However, in some cases, the lock changers themselves have helped themselves to some of the household items. In Florida, repo men were reported for stealing a laptop, an MP3 player, and six bottles of wine (Alden). The attorneys general in 40 states are launching a joint investigation of allegations that banks are cutting corners and using fraudulent paperwork to foreclose on ... some homes. Bank of America is putting the brakes on foreclosures in all 50 states while it reviews its foreclosure procedures. JPMorgan Chase and GMAC Mortgage have tempo...

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... a showdown between government officials and pirates saw the latter holding a Ukrainian ship ransom for $20 million. That money, which has been as high as $30 million in some cases, has helped to finance the war in Somalia, according to some reports. Groups like Al-Shabaab, which the U.S. had designated a terrorist organization, are on the receiving end of some of these funds. According to Roger Middleton, author ... of a key report on the situation, "at the moment it's a five ... but that will end later this year, and there are no plans to replace their escort at that time. On June 2, t...

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