BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said Monday he did it to show how desperate he and other workers were. "We, the workers have ...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 12:16AM
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On April 28, 2009 American history will be made. The National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW) will introduce Sojourner Truth as the first African American woman to have a memorial bust in the United States Capitol buildin ...
Posted Monday, April 27th 2009 at 11:06AM
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(Taylor Media Services) Grammy-nominated Gospel singer Pastor Timothy Wright died last week apparently as a result of complications from an automobile accident in July of last year which took the lives of his wife Betty, 58, and 14-year-old grandson ...
Posted Monday, April 27th 2009 at 10:31AM
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. declared a public health emergency Sunday to deal with the emerging new swine flu, much like the government does to prepare for approaching hurricanes. Officials reported 20 U.S. cases of swine flu in five states so far, with t ...
Posted Sunday, April 26th 2009 at 4:55PM
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It's no secret that nearly every profession around the globe is feeling the effects of the economic crisis -- even prostitution. In Germany, where the world's oldest profession is legal, prostitutes have created their own version of a stimulus packag ...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 1:50AM
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April 20 {was} "National Pot Smoking Day." It's a day where people across the world celebrate in the conspicuous consumption of the magical herb, marijuana. It's an unofficial counterculture holiday that is based on the simple concept of smoking some ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 9:07AM
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The recent press about United Airlines joining the ranks of other major carriers in establishing a tough policy about seating obese passengers brings up the larger issue of what we can do to stop the epidemic of obesity in this country. As a prevent ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 8:48AM
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GENEVA – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West of using the Holocaust as a "pretext" for aggression against Palestinians, prompting European diplomats to walk out Monday from a speech disrupted by jeering protesters in rainbow wigs t ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 1:31PM
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Internet service providers want to end the all-you-can-eat plans and get their customers paying à la carte. But they are having a hard time closing the buffet line. Faced with rising consumer protest and calls from members of Congress for new regulat ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 9:43AM
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ALIABAD, Afghanistan — The two Army lieutenants crouched against boulders beside the Korangal River. Taliban gunfire poured down from villages and cliffs above, hitting tree branches and rocks and snapping as the bullets passed over the officers’ hel ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 9:26AM
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C.I.A. interrogators used the near-drowning technique, which Obama administration officials have described as torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda. The C.I.A. officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 against Abu ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 9:04AM
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Plane hijacked in Jamaica's Montego Bay; crew held (AP)
AP - A gunman described as "mentally challenged" hijacked a Canadian jet on the tarmac near the resort city of Montego Bay and was holding six crew members hostage after releasing the passen ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 8:11AM
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WASHINGTON — The head of the Senate intelligence committee said Thursday that she would hold a hearing to examine the National Security Agency’s interception of domestic communications after new reports that recent wiretapping went beyond what Congre ...
Posted Friday, April 17th 2009 at 10:49PM
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In their classic 1967 treatise, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton critically observed a characteristic common to societies built around racial supremacy:
{Whenever a number of persons within a society have enjo ...
Posted Thursday, April 16th 2009 at 6:26PM
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