Author’s note: This was published 30 days ago in the Bolivar Herald-Free Press. Aug. 26 has been National Dog Day since 2006. According to Holiday Insights, this special day “has two goals: to honor dogs, and to rescue dogs from homelessness and abuse.†Colleen Paige originated National Dog Day. She told Urban Dog that...
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An international study, Awareness during Resuscitation experiment (Aware), will examine near-death experiences involving 1,500 cardiac arrest survivors in about 25 centers in the US and Britain. The study is coordinated by the Human Consciousness Project at the University of Southampton, which specializes in studying the human brain, consciousness and death. The research, expected to...
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A hacker thought to be loosely associated with internet group Anonymous managed to hack into the email account of Alaskan Governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin in the early morning hours of Wednesday, September 16. Partial contents of her email account – including two family photos, e-mail messages and contact lists – were...
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The Marriot Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan has been bombed. At least 40 people are dead and twenty-five injured. The explosion, believed to be a car or truck bomb, occured at 8 p.m. (10 a.m. ET), just hours after newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari addressed Parliament and promised to destroy terrorism in the country....
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According to a document published by Wikileaks.org, a document leaking website, the official website account of Fox News Channel commentator Bill O’Reilly has been hacked. The one page document, which Wikileaks confirms to be authentic, shows a list of individuals and passwords of those who have accounts on O’Reilly’s website, BillOReilly.com. The list, according...
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The poppy trade that fuels terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan is a problem that must be addressed but doesn’t have a military solution, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during a teleconference for Internet journalists and bloggers. Speaking at a dinner hosted by the Pacific Council on International Policy, Navy Adm....
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George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty Four, a post-World War II novel that tried to describe a Britain in which fascism had won, explains that the death of intellectual freedom changes the language: Newspeak was the official language of Oceania, and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism....
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I watched a few excerpts from Alec Baldwin’s interview on 20/20 in relation to his book, A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce. Men don’t get a fair shake in divorce courts or from society-at-large. According to the promo: “I have been through some of the worst of contentious divorce litigation,â€ÂÂ...
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The Decatur Library is the largest library building in the DeKalb System of Atlanta, Georgia. Located at 215 Sycamore St. in Decatur, the library is right across from the Decatur MARTA Station. It has four floors and “is really two buildings put together,” according to Matt Montgomery, Public Information Officer of the Dekalb Library...
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