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Primaries took place yesterday. The three biggest races were in Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. The results are going to be CLOSE this year.
During morning rush hour yesterday, a car bomb exploded and destroyed 8 vehicles and injured at least 47 people in Afghanistan's capital.
Several companies are planning on cutting $1.5 TRILLION calories from their beverages and snacks. Some of the more popular achievers are Coca-Cola and Pillsbury.
Last decade was the warmest in 100 years. A weather forecaster from Wisconsin is finding evidence of global warming. He says that after his recent trip to the Arctic, he saw the almost all of the icecaps are vanishing at a rapid pace. He says that with the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, Earth is bound to get warmer. And most of the gases are human made.
Several teens are out to save their skate park. After it was destroyed due to ill behaved hoodlums, they are trying to rebuild a park. All these teens have left are a few dilapidated parking lots. They formed a committee and convinced the town to rebuild their park! They recently surpassed their goal of $6,000 to fence the park. The mayor is recognizing that they truly are athletes and need the space.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
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Oil Spill
Oil is STILL leaking from the pipe. Some scientists are questioning the amount being released (200,000,000 gallons a day) saying that it may be more. Several efforts to stop have been inserting a chemical to break the oil into tiny drops to stop flow or inserting a giant straw thing. Pres. Obama says that the government will not stop until the oil is cleaned up.
Immigration
Two immigrants or telling their stories. They both came to the USA to escape financial difficulties. They have similar stories, but one is here illegally. She is being kept out of many colleges because of the choice her parents made to move her here without a citizenship. But with the new dream act, she may have a chance. It allows immigrants to go to school as long as they have good grades. But those opposed say that it will encourage illegal behavior and more people will come here. The other who is here legally, waited 10 years to to get his citizenship. He doesn't feel that it is right to have to compete for acceptances with those who are breaking the law. I personally discourage the dream act because it is allowing people to break the law. Immigration when legal is terrific, but when it's illegal, it harms the country and legal residents have to compete for benefits and jobs.
Monday, May 10, 2010
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Greek financial difficulty is spreading to the USA. A crash in the stock market may have been due to computing flaws. It dropped 1 thousand points! by the end of the day it had recuperated.. but is still quite low.
NYC Bomb Scare
It seems as though the car bomber was not alone. Officials say that the Taliban was involved. Although they may not have been present, they most definitely supplied and compensated the bomber.
Qatar is finding a new path to economic success: Education! Who would have guessed? There is now a large college campus called Education City that is a cluster of various branches of American colleges. Qatar govt. is importing American professors to teach a
t colleges that are branches of large American colleges. Even students who are not Qatarians get lots of financial aid. Only about a dozen of the permanent students are American.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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