An ad from the Fair Isaac Corp. on husband/wife credit problems. What a surprise--the wife is 2 for 2 and the husband bats .000. Yeah, it's a small thing, but the cumulative effect of advertising which portrays women as smart and men as fools isn't.
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Samar Khalil Spinelli, 39, a Captain in the US Marine Corps, pleaded guilty this past December in a Detroit federal court to conspiring with former FBI Agent and CIA employee Nada Nadim Prouty and Elfat El Aouar, the wife of fugitive restauranteur Talal Chahine, to commit citizenship fraud and passport fraud, according to US...
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I am honestly surprised that they did not continue to pursue the father for the $24,000 child support arrearage. His daughter was moved out of the country against his will, he was denied a role in her life, he was charged child support, they didn't tell him about the support for 15 years, and...
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From Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine's new press release Governor Kaine Announces 2008 Legislative Initiatives on Domestic and Sexual Violence (1/2/08):
"The Violence Against Women Act of 2005 also prohibits law enforcement officers from asking or requiring a victim of an alleged sex offense to submit to a polygraph examination as a condition for proceeding...
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Microprocessor company Intel Corporation has quit the board of directors for the One Laptop Per Child association (OLPC), a non-profit organization that aims to provide children in developing countries with inexpensive laptops. An Intel spokesman cited a “philosophical impasse” as the reason for the split. Intel joined the OLPC board in July 2007, agreeing...
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A small team from Britain’s Scotland Yard has arrived in the Pakistani capital to help with a government investigation into last week’s assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. VOA’s Nancy-Amelia Collins in Islamabad has more. Pakistani officials say the Scotland Yard team will lend forensic and technical expertise to the investigation, which is being...
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Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, won the Iowa Republican caucus due at least in part to a large outcome of support from evangelical voters, receiving 34% from Republican caucus goers. Huckabee beat out 6 other Republican candidates in the often turbulent campaign which often focused on issues of...
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Egypt has allowed approximately 2000 Palestinian pilgrims through the Rafah Border Crossing, a move which Israel says violates an understanding between its Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt initially denied the pilgrims entrance, insisting that they enter via an Israeli-controlled route, but finally gave clearance after three Palestinians died while...
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NASA has announced that the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-122, will once again be postponed, this time until late January or early February. The reason behind the delay is believed to be a faulty connector that caused erratic fuel sensor readings during the previous two launch attempts in December. Space shuttle program...
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Suffering from cardiac arrest while staying in a hospital might be more deadly than receiving such a fit at a crowded airport, according to a new study. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, states that in about a third of cardiac arrest cases inside hospitals in the United States, doctors...
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Ben Marlin, bassist for American brutal death metal band Disgorge, died Wednesday after a lengthy battle with cancer. San Diego-based Disgorge announced his death in the following statement: “We are regretful to say that after nearly a year and a half of battling cancer, our brother and bass player Ben Marlin has passed away...
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A car bomb has exploded in Diyarbakir, a city in the southeastern part of Turkey. According to the prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at least 4 people have died in the attack and 52 others have been injured. The bombing, which took place in the city center, approximately 100 yards from a...
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The government of Sri Lanka says it is withdrawing from a cease-fire agreement with Tamil rebels because, in the opinion of the government, the pact has become meaningless. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi the withdrawal is largely symbolic because the Norwegian-brokered truce collapsed two years ago. There have be many clashes between the...
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has denied accusations the security forces or intelligence services were involved in the assassination of former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. President Musharraf, who blames al-Qaida for Ms. Bhutto’s death, told reporters he had warned the former prime minister about threats to her safety from Islamic militants as...
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At 12:50 pm on January 3, a ski chairlift ride cost a German skier’s life and another German woman was left with serious injuries after the lift cable derailed from the mast sheaves in a windstorm. The derailed chairlift is the two-seater Fallboden lift at Kleine Scheidegg, next to the Jungfrau mountain in Switzerland....
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A man with a knife stabbed several police officers from Wiltshire Constabulary in Liden, Swindon, Wiltshire, in the United Kingdom. One of the officers was stabbed in the head. A dog handler and police answered the call around 2:00 pm UTC as they discovered the man with the knife. Officers chased the man as...
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An office block fire in Ürümqi, northwest China has claimed the lives of three firefighters and injured a fourth. The 12-story dual-purpose office and market building was completely destroyed in the blaze, which also spread to and severely damaged an adjacent hotel. According to a spokesman for Xinjiang fire brigade, an eyewitness reported that...
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"Take heed, ye red-blooded American males. The police are operating a new sting designed to destroy your life.
"The police are planting attractive women half naked in parks. They entice passing males, engage them in conversation, lay back, spread their legs and rest their feet on the men’s shoulders.
"After being as friendly and suggestive as...
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Made in 1968 by “King of the Nudies†Russ Meyer, Vixen! is a soft porn film that can stick in the mind afterward not just for its hot sex scenes but for the extraordinary qualities of its protagonist Vixen (yes, it’s her name) Palmer. The movie opens with breathtakingly beautiful film of what a...
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