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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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No Quarter
  • Hello. Goodbye. Okay. - 16 hours agoEditor’s Note: Lisa Brackmann is the author of the novel, Rock Paper Tiger , advertised below in the center column. Rock Paper Tiger is a thriller set in China. The “heroine...
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  • Bad Luck Cadet #13 – Gun Fights and Car Chases - 23 hours agoGun Fights and Car Chases is the thirteenth in a series of posts on my misadventures in becoming a police officer . The first in this series is Accidents Happen .
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Global Post


Green Life
  • Green Your Fitness: Get Greener Gear - 4 hours agoNew Year’s resolutions aside, this is a great time of year to focus on physique. This week’s tips, then, will give you ideas about how to get fit in the greenest of ways. Tip #2: Get Greener Gear ...
  • Daily Roundup: January 4, 2011 - 17 hours agoGive and Learn: Google donated $4 million to NatureBridge, an environmental education provider affiliated with the National Park Service. Ecorazzi Power of Water: Flooding in Queensland, Australia, ...
  • Falling Birds a Freaky End to 2010 in Arkansas - 22 hours agoAs most people welcomed the new year, the people of Beebe, Arkansas , wondered whether the world was going to end. Just before midnight on New Year's Eve, the small city northeast of Little Rock exp...
  • Green Your Fitness: A Human-Powered Commute - 1 day ago


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 Argentina: Installation of onboard video cameras begin - 18 hours ago
The Fisheries Secretariat of the Nation has reported that an Integrated Control System has come into force, which involves the installation of video cameras on board the Argenti...


Florida Oil Spill Law

Media Monitors
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  • Washington uses Arms Sales to achieve Global Supremacy - 0 minutes ago"Weapons sales necessarily entail training and instruction, joint military exercises, parts replacement, maintenance and repairs, and upgrading and other modifications. In short, an integral and long-...
  • Without Borders, If Only - 0 minutes ago"No, what happened to us at the border is not personal. It is however, part and parcel of being Palestinian and this is what makes it all the worse. There are thousands of stories similar to my own if...
  • A New Year's Reflection on Immigration - 0 minutes ago"I am equally frustrated by those, on both the right and the left, who have callously reduced the matter of immigration to a "wedge issue" to be exploited for political gain. Immigration is far more t...
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BPS Research Digest
Why are we less willing to help the victims of man-made disaster? - 9 hours ago
Women at an Ethiopian refugee camp People are more willing to donate money to help victims of natural, as opposed to man-made, disasters. Hanna Zagefka and her team found this is because people ...
A psychological problem with snacking in front of the telly - 1 day ago

 Red Tape Chronicles
  • Court: No warrant needed to search cell phone - 20 hours agoThe next time you're in California, you might not want to bring your cell phone with you. The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can search the cell phone of a person who's been arreste...
  • Ten things Web users should fear in 2011 - 1 week agoAs in the real world, cyberspace has bad neighborhoods.  But unlike the real world, risks in cyberspace are not easy to spot -- and the location of those digital bad neighborhoods can change all the t...
  • The Women of Twitter: Behind those sexy tweets - 2 weeks ago“The CADJPY is testing the rising trend line dating back to Nov. 2,” announced the blonde bombshell in a low-cut bikini top, discussing with seeming gravitas and authority technical levels for the val...
  • Mobile broadband the next big hacking risk? - 2 weeks agoAdmit it, you've done it.  Despite all the vague warnings you've heard about public Wi-Fi hotspots, you've paid an online bill while surfing at a coffee shop. Or you've purchased something and entered...
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Top Documentary Films
  • Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby - 57 minutes agoA major BBC documentary, Russia sees Jonathan Dimbleby attempt to put across the largest nation on Earth over the course of a 10,000 mile journey. The end result fills up five 60 minute episodes. A...
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Wall Street gains as jobs data buoys optimism (Reuters) - 1 hour agoReuters - U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday as much stronger-than-expected jobs data boosted optimism about the labor market and the economic recovery.

  • Hiring surge buoys economy outlook (Reuters) - 1 hour agoReuters - Private sector jobs surged in December at a rate three times stronger than forecast, a hiring report showed, the most bullish signal in months that a recovery in the world's biggest economy ...



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