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Unintended Consequences

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http://www.wired.com, By Liat Clark

With reports only recently confirming that fracking is not, as long as its properly regulated, the earthquake-generating terror we thought it was, a U.S. geothermal company has decided it’s a great idea to extract clean energy from a dormant volcano

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Associated Press

There are serious doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child initiative was worth the money. The $200 million initiative, inspired by Negroponte and paid for by the Peruvian government, was a grand initiative that

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http://motherjones.com, By Alyssa Battistoni

There are plenty of reasons to worry about fracking—groundwater contamination, methane leaks, that flaming tapwater thing.

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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser, March 08,

The number of suicides in the U.S. Army rose by 80 percent after the United States launched the war on Iraq, according to an analysis published in the British journal Injury Prevention by American military doctors.

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abc 15

PHOENIX - Many Arizona families rely on the government food stamp program to help make ends meet. In fact, one in six Arizonans are now getting the government assistance, including many who never thought they would need help....We found 24 stores

News Link • Global Reported By Ronald Bogner
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Officer.com

Hours after the nation's top law enforcement official pledged Tuesday to stem a surge in police killings across the country, an Athens-Clarke County officer was gunned down in the line of duty. Coming when it did, the shooting death of senior pol

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Terrence Aym

The controversial U.S. scanners used in some American airports have been blamed for a woman's death. The latest incident comes from Egypt where a 57-year old Palestinian woman died over the weekend after passing through one of the scanners. Security

News Link • Global Reported By Terrence Aym
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arclein

n one of their articles, a slave described his 13-hour work-days on the 494-acre plantation as brutal, filled with harsh physical labor, punctuated by beatings, and ending with a night of fitful sleep on a wooden plank in a locked room with other sla

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C4SS / Thomas L. Knapp

If we’re lucky the worst that will happen is that [the SEC will] content themselves with Internet porn, outrageous salaries and obscene fringe benefits, and otherwise keep pretty much to themselves.

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