Tag: government
member name: Sheryl O.
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October 09, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
I recently read an editorial by Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She cited this stat:
Number of students who dropped out of U.S. high . . .
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March 20, 2008 12:49 PM EDT --
In a speech delivered to an audience at the Pentagon yesterday , President Bush remarked,
"The surge has done more than turn the situation in Iraq around -- it has opened the door to a . . .
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July 22, 2008 06:20 PM EDT --
Pretty much everyone knows by now that our airwaves are going digital as of February 17, 2009, right? There have been numerous articles and public service advertisements already on TV (mostly featuring . . .
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December 28, 2007 12:32 PM EST --
I was waiting in line in a city bank the other day when I noticed two small African-American boys, probably around 5 or 6 years of age, sitting in a small waiting area in the center of the bank. . . .
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October 15, 2007 09:49 AM EDT --
Over this past weekend, Verizon has made what appears to be substantial changes in its its terms of service, to giving the company the right to share sensitive calling data with third parties. In . . .
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November 27, 2007 10:45 AM EST --
An old country preacher had a teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession. Like many young men, the boy didn't really know what he wanted to . . .
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January 16, 2007 12:33 PM EST --
Starting this year, Tennessee will require drug dealers to pay state excise taxes on illegal substances they acquire and/or sell. A 10-person tax agency has been created at a one-time start-up . . .
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September 10, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
The mayor of Megion, in Russia's Siberia region, has banned municipal employees from making excuses about not getting work done. Mayor Alexander Kuzmin says he had lost patience with his reports . . .
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September 30, 2008 12:51 PM EDT --
As you know, I try to keep Gather informed about news concerning ScienceDebate 2008 initiatives. I received the following email invitation to an exciting conference scheduled in Oct at the Univ . . .
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September 13, 2007 02:52 PM EDT --
During the Senate's questionning of General David Petraeus on Tuesday, Connecticut Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman pressed the general on whether the U.S. is ready to go into Iran, if necessary: . . .
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October 16, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Afghanistan has executed 15 convicted murderers, kidnappers, and thieves by firing squad, ending its three-year moratorium on the death penalty. Until its 2001 ouster, the Taliban regime had frequently . . .
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November 09, 2007 12:02 PM EST --
This past July, a school for witches and their craft, opened on Chicago Street, the main drag in Rossville, Illinois. CEO Donald Lewis says that the school has more than 190,000 registered members. . . .
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December 13, 2007 11:24 AM EST --
I was really angry when I saw this. This is happening in a town in CT not far from me, and according to the article :
"Town officials issued a permit to the atheists to place the . . .
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January 14, 2008 03:39 PM EST --
Some of you may have come across this already, but I found this news item rather amusing. Seems an inmate in a prison in Utah has sued for the right to practice the Asatru religion behind bars. . . .
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March 14, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
Today, during a speech to The Economic Club of New York, President Bush admitted that the country was going through some tough economic times, while trying to soften that overdue admission by stating . . .
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June 11, 2008 11:22 AM EDT --
While the Congress sits on their hands and continues their childish political bickering about what to do with our ever-worsening energy situation, you may think that big oil is having a good chuckle over . . .
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June 17, 2008 10:41 AM EDT --
My daughter sent me a link to an article this morning, then called me to talk about it. You can read the article yourself - it highlights an important issue in the United States, namely . . .
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October 24, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
This morning, Congressman Mike Pence, Republican representative from the 6th district of Indiana, was a guest on C-Span's Washington Journal to discuss today's House Foreign Affairs Committee . . .
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December 19, 2007 04:23 PM EST --
We received this email from the AFL-CIO. If you believe that this is a worthy cause, then please help out by watching this entertaining video and registering your support. We need to . . .
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January 08, 2008 11:44 AM EST --
I do not understand the justice system in the state of Florida. They have already tried and convicted one 12-year-old as an adult in recent years and now they are thinking of doing the same with . . .
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