... a lot of moderates hanging out at town hall meetings, and those that are can be easily swayed into the fray with a couple of well placed phrases from highly paid lobbyists posing as the "trustworthy looking older gentleman/lady" from "down the street". The phrase "one bad apple spoils the bunch" is well known among crowd control experts. In fact, experts have known for a very long time ... that a few people in the right place can change the mood of an entire room. When Frank Sinatra first took to ... the stage, his handlers used crowd control technique to create a name for their rising...

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... would be a big hit to the economy, not only from jobs lost in that company, but from all the jobs lost in the industries that supply them. If all of the big three shut down, nationwide, over 3,000,000 jobs would be lost. We have always thought of the auto industry as being based in ... Michigan, but in fact, suppliers are spread across 27 states. Over 1.1 percent of Ohio's work force would be put out of work, at a time when the ... state is already struggling. This type of job loss would roughly double the ... ready to take on any more debt for overpaid and irresponsible CEO's. But wou...

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... 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 that suffered from the current economic crisis. While a lot of jobs have been lost 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 ... previously, rather than choosing...

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... to watch live television no matter where you are. Some offer a GPS navigational system to help you find driving directions. Of course, many people would be lost without the option to text their friends and family, as well. Cell phones have become a part of people, a way to establish a unique identity. It's ... to them, with favorite songs, pictures and more. Some people even choose to personalize their key pad with different colors and options for each number on the phone. A cell phone is now such an integrated part of society, it is almost abnormal for someone not to own one. Unfortunat...

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... deck. Dunes are paved for parking lots and an entire natural area is lost. Tourists are no longer even able to see many of the native or natural plants. The next thing that happens is that the once nice, wide beach begins to erode because the overdevelopment interferes with the natural sand cycle where the shoreline is allowed to move and add new sand through storms and ... the protection of the reef. Despite the fact that the reef was bringing tourists to the area, the business that were profiting from the reef did not want to invest in protection, nor did they see the need for protect...

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... two children, agreed with Vincent. "People have simply had enough. We're living in an age where the inequality between high-end Wall Street and the rest of us is simply a gap that has become too big," he said. "Millions of people have lost their jobs. Millions of people have lost their homes" (Silverleib). There's been "way too much cloak-and-dagger activity within ... the corridors of Wall Street" lately. "This is about raising awareness and a change of political discourse," he added (Silverleib ... ). Because there's no directly stated cause, the movement doesn't necessarily have a de...

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... much money? It's not because we are stealing music from peer-to-peer networks. It's for several reasons. One is because of the money loss, record companies are recycling songwriter formulas and shying away from singers wanting to write their own material (research Kelly Clarkson vs. ... com or Tunecore.com, which will post your album to digital retailers such as Napster, AmazonMP3, Rhapsody, and all iTunes around the world for a small fee. The rest is up to the artist. With profile sites such as MySpace (which they have a musicians profile as well) and Facebook, it's not hard ... on VH...

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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 blame ... for it. Many believe that their constitutional rights are being ignored by government (Barstow). However, for the maj...

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... physical impediments- Christina is an intelligent, funny, well read, educated woman, who everyone agrees has a wonderful personality. She has a pretty face, but she tips the scale at nearly 400 pounds. While a woman this size has a chance of meeting a "chubby chaser" on the internet, the chances of finding such a man in real life in her locale are slim to none. Most men will overlook ... dicey. People in real life generally meet in workplace situations, or in similar social settings, or because of mutual friends. It's hard to simply cut bait. On the internet, you can generally click ign...

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... to find work. Those people who were foolish enough to think it would last forever bought homes and set up shop in areas where the construction boom was going strong. They were making money, so they took the ARM's their own industry had pushed for and bought bigger houses, houses they could not afford. If they have not already been foreclosed on ... , they are stuck with houses worth less than they paid for them that they can't sell, in towns where there are no jobs. Conservative estimates say that Florida now has lost 50% of all ... construction related jobs. In many areas, the numbers ...

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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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... types of speeches given at the dedication fo cemeteries in the past. The Gettysburg Address is much different than these eulogies that would go on for at least sixty minutes or longer. It is in fact a call to action to a nation to not give up on the idea of freedom through Union, as President Lincoln literally takes the thousands of lives lost and says this is ... an assurance that in fact the Union is worthy of being preserved, in fact it must be preserved to honor those thousands who died to ... keep it intact. He also supports the key philosophical point of his presidency, which is ...

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... many of those people to declare bankruptcy and walk away than it was to stay put and pay their loans. The banking industry bet on a robust economy and ascending home prices and they lost the bet, jeopardizing themselves, and the entire United States Economy. Whether the banks should have been more fiscally responsible is not in question. Everyone agrees that greed and loose lending practices ... lead to the catastrophic downturn that required a financial bailout, and the result was that when the smoke cleared, we were left with a new banking system ... going to private school, you can ...

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... Daily tracking reports published between March 12 and June 7, thirty-one of them showed McCain was shown to be ahead of Obama by at least one percentage point. In the remaining reports the two candidates were tied. And in April/May, McCain pushed even further ahead, gaining leads of around five percentage points. It is probably no coincidence, though, that this was ... regarding his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and for comments Obama made about "bitter" Pennsylvania votes in reference to having lost the primary in that state to Clinton. When summer hit, Obama secured the Democrat...

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... written in Washington, and revised in Gettysburg the night before the dedication, at the home of David Wills. The speaker who preceded him gave a two hour oration, and the crowed was stunned by Lincoln's simple 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 Declaration of Independence, it defined the Civil War as "a new birth of freedom" and equality for all...

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... diagnosed with allergies and sinusitis. Why can't our children breathe? What is happening in our world to make the very air they need all but toxic to them? According to an article in Time magazine one culprit is undoubtedly global warming. Global warming increases ... good news for plants since they breathe in carbon dioxide, it's bad news for our children who are being deprived of oxygen. Plants, especially the weedier plants, are thriving and producing pollen out of proportion to their growth. Our children's respiratory systems, already struggling to take in oxygen are ... heavy air...

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... , solar power is a necessity. Wind power is not reliable enough to provide all your electric needs. Still, adding $10 to $30 thousand dollars to the price of building a home is cost prohibitive for most of us. If you know a little bit about electricity, are good at building simple structures, and ... simple instructions, there are sites online that can teach you how to build a solar cell for less than $200. Of course, you still need the batteries and other accessories, but according to these sites, you can purchase these pretty cheaply on auction sites. It would probably take about 8 of ...

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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 ... Misskelley entered his plea to one count of first degree murder and two counts of second degree murder. This rarely used plea, which lets the boys still maintain their innocence, requires them to state that there was evidence that could be used to convict them. As a res...

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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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... have, I know that all of us share a deep, abiding belief in this country, a belief in our people, a belief in the principles that have made America's economy the envy of the world." He then continued on to promise that his administration will "help lay the foundation for you to grow and innovate" while also pledging to devote new investment in infrastructure and 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 Cham...

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... command begged Lincoln to fire U.S. Grant, Lincoln's answer was "I cannot spare this man. He fights!" In the end, Lincoln and Grant split the credit when they won the war, neither of them having likely seen the white of an enemy's eyes in battle. To say Grant "fought" was to say that men fought for ... it too. Eisenhower was so unsure of his plan that he wrote two letters, one praising the valiant men who stormed the beaches in the event of success, the other taking full blame in case the offensive was defeated. The men knew what they were heading into, and they went anyhow; not for a ...

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... proved to be - it's a lot of hoopla over a bang that will likely be less than a fizzle. That's likely what lawmakers had in mind when they enacted the law that requires television stations to make the switch which has been rescheduled 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 gr...

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... Justice retains data for analysis, dissemination, and study to help those in law enforcement and those wishing to research data related to criminal justice. The Bureau of Justice Statistics program under the DOJ, an executive, administrative branch of government, is an extremely useful tool for students to analyze an array of issues including both victim and offender information, including characteristics ... of these populations. The information provided in this database is extremely useful in that the quantifiable information can be used to assist policy-makers with decisions that eff...

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... something was missing in his life and he felt drawn to be in Church," (Fairchild, Christianity.About.com). The story goes: one day Obama decided to visit Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, the same church which drew heavy criticism during the election. The now retired pastor, Jeremiah Wright Jr., later made some critical remarks on both race and America itself which ignited ... candidates for president, Obama has made faith a centerpiece of his campaign," said the Ariel Sabar of CSMonitor.com. The cord of religion came into play during the George W. Bush campaign for the oval o...

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... 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 was actually even lower ... than expected. A division of MasterCard showed holiday spending this year was down by as much as 4% over the same period last year, making this year the worst holiday season for them in modern times...

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