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Today is Love a Tree Day!
Today is Love a Tree Day! Trees are very important for the environment. Planting a tree can be one of the most efficient ways to remove excess levels of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, therefore...
Offences by girls are up by 25% as crimes by boys...
Men commit more crimes than women. For example, in 2002 male offenders in England and Wales outnumbered female offenders by more than four to one.In 2000 the peak age of offending was 18 for males and 15 for females. Slightly higher proportions of male than female offenders...
CRTC Orders Bell to Prove Throttling Necessary, H...
In a move that could change the rules for internet providers and the way big corporations like Bell and Rogers' handle their data.The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission announced yesterday it has launched two major reviews of internet technologies,...
User-Generated Content Services and Copyright Issues
"Cannes, France-- Could you be arrested for uploading my film or clip on the internet? India Eu Film Initiative (www.iefilmi.com) brings you a fascinationg debate on the content that you as an ordinary user of the...
Dennis Rodman Charged With Spousal Battery
It is saddening and depressing to learn about cases of domestic violence whether or not they involve athletes and celebrities.Dennis Rodman's former wife, Michelle Moyer, previously alleged being abused by Rodman and...
Almost 200 Football Fans Caught on Tape chasing p...
The UEFA Cup Final, always a tense and exciting event for football fans (soccer for you yanks and some canucks), got a little hairier this year when up to 200 football fans chased officers down after the match. The...
Obama Endorsed by 3 former SEC Chairs
Wow! A strong and unexpected group of endorsements, the most interesting one being from William Donaldson, who was SEC chair under President Bush I. It reflects the big lack of confidence Wall Street is showing in...
Tribute to a Poet Laureate - by lawdog
"As read at City Lights Bookstore as part of LaborFest 2004, and on Tasha's Place on TalkShoe 5/12/08Sometimes I lose my perspective. I forget what a truly incredible place San Francisco is, and how very fortunate I am to rub shoulders with the artists who have always been...
100 million smoke beedi in India, says report
""An estimated 100 million people - mostly the poor and illiterate -smoke beedi in India and 200,000 tuberculosis deaths are due to thesehand-rolled cigarettes, a health ministry report released on Mondaysaid. The...
Congressman Comes Clean on Love Child
" A congressman from New York has admitted to fathering a child in an extramarital affair three years ago.Under mounting scrutiny, Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella, who has...
'CSI' Actor Gary Dourdan Charged With Drug Posses...
UPDATE | 08 May 2008 -- CSI star Gary Dourdan has been charged with drug possession "Actor Gary Dourdan, who stars in US TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, has been charged with possession of heroin, cocaine and...
Latina teen pregnancy rate deserves recognition a...
"Today is the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. It's a day that should be solemnly observed by every Latino family with teenage children. Why?Because while the overall national rate of teen pregnancy has declined, it has actually increased among Latina girls. Sarah...
Sweden ranks world's best place for mothers
Among the many social benefits of living in Sweden are the long maternity leave and care for new mothers."Sweden has once again been rated as "the best place to be a mother in the world" by a U.S.-based charity in a report assessing the well-being for mothers around the...
The new ‘Miss Brooklyn’
"“Miss Brooklyn” is dead — but Bruce Ratner has released new renderings (above) of the 511-foot tower that he hopes will take her place.Ratner has said he won’t build the Frank Gehry–designed tower, now called “Building B-1,” until he finds an anchor tenant. And...
Freed Al-Jazeera cameraman details horrors of Gitmo
Journalist Sami Al-Hajj has been returned to Sudan after six years of imprisonment, and is speaking out publicly about the conditions he endured in Guantanamo Bay.Some of his most powerful words came Friday: “My...
