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Ex-Cons Help To Rehab Baltimore Blight
Abandoned row houses are a common sight in downtown Baltimore, a city that also has a high incarceration rate. A pilot project is bringing former inmates together to save these homes by deconstructing them piece by piece.
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Black Techies Find Niche Online
Angela Benton is working to help fill one online void with Black Web 2.0, a website designed for African-Americans engaged in technology and new media. Benton hopes to grow the site's multicultural audience. She is one of this year's recipients of the National Urban League's Woman of Power award.
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Human Trafficking In The U.S.: One Woman's Story
This year, for the first time ever, the U.S. included itself in the State Department's annual report on human trafficking. The report said the U.S. is a source country and a destination for victims. One woman, whose name was withheld to protect her and her family, tells her story about being lured from East Africa to Seattle -- into a bad situation.
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Crews Get Handle On Wildfire North Of Los Angeles
Crews working through the night beat back flames and built containment lines around a two-day old wildfire that charred nearly 22 square miles of brush. The blaze was 62 percent contained Saturday morning and no structures were threatened, Fire Capt. Sam Padilla said. He said there were no open flames, which slowed the fire's spread.
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Diplomat: 'Ghosts In The Room' Plague U.S., Iran
John Limbert, who spent 444 days as a hostage in Tehran, stepped down as head of the State Department's Iran desk on Friday. Limbert says that while the White House has made persistent efforts to change the tone of America's relationship with Iran, conflicts between the two nations are deeply ingrained.
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Secrets, Leaks And Access
As observers, friendly and otherwise, sift through the 91,000 Afghan war documents released by WikiLeaks, host Guy Raz sifts through the debate over leaks and secrecy. He talks with Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, who still fumes about what he says was a leak that cut off contact with Osama bin Laden. Raz also speaks with former Pentagon reporter Jamie McIntyre and Associated Press editor Ted Bridis about the wire service's investigation of Freedom of Information delays in the Department of Homeland Security.
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Ansel Adams Or Not? The Answer's Worth Millions
It's an irresistible story. A building painter in Fresno, Calif., announces negatives he bought for $45 at a yard sale were taken by Ansel Adams. But the renowned photographer's family thinks the story is too good to be true, and the heat's on to prove the negatives' authenticity.
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Debris Sets Back Work On Stopping The Gusher
Tropical Storm Bonnie left crews working to plug the Gulf oil gusher a little memento that is expected to push their work back about a day.
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Arizona Gov. Considers Changing Immigration Law
Republican Jan Brewer, who signed the law and appealed a ruling blocking its most controversial sections, said Friday she would consider changes to "tweak" the law to respond to the parts U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton faulted.
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This IS His Grandfather's Bug, But Now It's Electric
If the Chevy Volt's $40,000 price tag sounds a bit too steep, you could always go the do-it-yourself route of Oregon teenager Ashton Stark. He just finished a yearlong conversion of his grandfather's 1972 Volkswagen Beetle into an electric car.
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Operation
Gratitude seeks to lift morale and put smiles on faces by
sending care packages addressed to individual Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen
and Marines deployed overseas. Operation Gratitude care
packages contain food, hygiene products, entertainment items and
personal letters of appreciation, all wrapped with good wishes of love
and support.
Through Collection Drives, Letter Writing
Campaigns and Donations of funds for shipping expenses, Operation Gratitude provides
civilians anywhere in America a way to express their respect and
appreciation to the men and women of the U.S. Military in an active,
hands-on manner. check out video
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7-year-old shot by police was asleep |
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Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was asleep on the living room sofa in her
family's apartment when Detroit police searching for a homicide suspect
burst in and an officer's gun went off, fatally striking the girl in the
neck, family members say.
Her father, 25-year-old Charles Jones, told The Detroit News he had
just gone to bed early Sunday after covering his daughter with her
favorite Disney princess
blanket when he heard a flash grenade followed by a gunshot. When
he rushed into the living room, he said, police forced him to lie on
the ground, with his face in his daughter's blood. Read more
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WTF?
We Philippine Tarsier Monkey's are probably the smallest primates in the world. We are not actually monkeys but we are primates. Our Latin name is 'Tarsius Syrichta'. Our diet consists of insects, which we eat live.
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If you use facebook, chances are you've encountered a few of these
before, maybe it's even YOU! or me :)
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There are 24.015924 hours in a day!!
if you sleep for 8 hours (if your lucky) you would sleep 121.6 days
away a year,
9733.3 days away if you live to the age of 80,
that means you would sleep 26.6 years away of your life.
But there is good news, Leap Year, every 4
years we have leap year to make up for the 23.25108 hours we add up over
that 4 year span, that means you get 0.764844 of an hour extra every 4
years, and that adds up to 15.29688 of extra hours in your life time,
That's yours no one can take it away from you, use it wisely :) |
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L.A. orders pot dispensaries to close |
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 Los Angeles city prosecutors began notifying 439 medical marijuana dispensaries Tuesday that they must shut down by June 7, when the city's ordinance to regulate the stores takes effect. It's the first step in what could be a lengthy and expensive legal battle to regain control over pot sales. Read more
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Why Internet Explorer 8 Takes Time to Load
Internet Explorer 8 does create problems on some machines, the major one being its nonresponsiveness at times. On some machines, the problem is so recurring that it has led to several discussions in thousands of forums that brand Internet Explorer 8 as a useless browser. However, the latest version of Internet Explorer is the most stable browser among all its predecessors. Before moving towards troubleshooting on how to repair Internet Explorer 8, I would like to inform you of the reason why it takes so much time to load. Read more
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