"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is...
"Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund Paul Graham July 2008 When we read Y Combinator applications there are always ideas we're hoping to see. In the past we've never said publicly what they are. If we say we're...
"JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel accused six Arabs on Friday of trying to set up an al Qaeda cell in Israel and said one of them had proposed attacking helicopters used during a visit by President George W. Bush. ...
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Proposals for the British government to spy on all its citizens by recording all their telephone calls and every minute that they are on the internet have been dubbed a 'step too far'. This won't really improve...
Helping America on war on terror is paying dividends to Pakistan. The American senate has approved three fold hike in non military aid to Pakistan. "Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Senator Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr on Tuesday introduced a landmark...
North Korea has ofically agreed to nuclear checks, as officials from China, the US, Russia, Japan and North and South Korea all agreed that Pyongyang (the capitla of North Korea) would finish disabling its main...
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There is secret political deal happening in Zimbabwe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai could join Mugabe government as Prime Minister. A plan worked out by South African President Thabo Mbeki has indicated new...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMy title pretty much says it all! Pam, ardent supporter of the Homeless, Environmentalist, Veganist, Singist, Dancist, Baloney Pony Video Ride'st, PETA, Activist,...
"The way the internet works could be changed forever following a proposed relaxation of the rules governing domain rules.Up until now websites could only use certain suffixes at the end of internet addresses, such as ".co.uk", ".com" or ".org". But in a move to liberalise the...
"Reports are circulating, in circles which are intensely attuned to the continued warming of relations between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, of a statement and proposal allegedly made by Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople."
As food prices continue to rise, and the world gets hotter, we as humans need to find more ways to conserve our planet and help our species adapt.Well, eating insects could be the answer. I don't know if I could do...
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"When Simonne Harris was whisked off to Las Vegas by her new boyfriend she was touched by the romantic gesture to mark her 31st birthday. But a birthday celebration was only part of Ryan Feeney's plan for the...
Many Turkish women fear the headscarf will become mandatory if the ban is lifted."June 10th, 2008 by Fred Stopsky The aftermath of Turkey’s Constitutional Court decision which invalidated a parliament action in...
FNMA and FHLMC have proposed 6 major changes to help stabilize the housing and home financing market. These changes include: 1. The elimination of the "declining market" designation whichforced lenders to...
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The federal antitrust lawsuit, which alledged the National Associationof Realtors policies unethically restricted competition and consumerchoice, finally came to a proposed settlement this week. The proposedchange set forth by NAR would change...