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Obama On Government: Results Bigger Than Size
President Obama wants to shift the political debate away from big versus small government and toward a discussion of whether or not the government works. Proving effectiveness requires more transparency, and the administration has used online tools to do that, but many Americans still await results.
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Chicago Mayor Daley Won't Run For Re-Election
The 68-year-old Democrat has been mayor since 1989. He announced the decision Tuesday, saying it was "a personal decision, no more, no less."
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Thousands Flee Colorado Wildfire
More than 3,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the foothills west of Boulder, Colo., where a wildfire is burning out of control. The blaze started Monday and has burned thousands of acres as well as a number of homes and structures.
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Scientists: Bacteria Consuming BP Oil
Government scientists say they are seeing a zone in the Gulf of Mexico that has below-normal levels of oxygen. That indicates bacteria in the area are consuming some of the oil that spewed from BP's well.
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Chicago Mayor Daley Won't Seek Re-Election
After more than 20 years in office, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he's not running for re-election. If Daley finishes his current term, he will have held the post longer than even his father, Richard J. Daley, who died in office after serving 21 years.
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Pastor To Proceed With Koran Burning
A pastor in Gainesville, Fla., says he will not back off plans to burn Korans on Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, says the church's plans could put the lives of Americans at risk and hurt the war effort.
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New York Tribal Cigarette Sales Under Fire
New York has the highest cigarette tax in the nation, but about a third of the cigarettes sold in the state aren't taxed because they're purchased online or at smoke shops run by American Indians. The state now hopes to collect sales tax on cigarettes sold to nonnatives on tribal lands.
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ABC News Chief Quits
ABC News President David Westin is stepping down after 13 years on the job. In that time, he confronted a tough environment in which network news struggled for profits and viewers. Earlier this year, he laid off about a quarter of the ABC News staff.
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Marine Scientists Seek Standards For Spill Research
Much of the scientific effort that has followed the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has focused on how much oil escaped and where it's gone. But many biologists say they're puzzled by the lack of an organized research effort to measure the damage.
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Hating On The President: A Great American Pastime
Is there anything a president can do to escape widespread criticism? Get another job, perhaps. Historians say it's in Americans' DNA to turn on whoever is in the White House. We've been doing it since the beginning.
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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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