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341) The Black Hills Yields Pink and Green Gold
Author:
Mitch Endick
Category:
News and Society
In more ways than one, Black Hills gold jewelry has the ability to turn gold into green. Black Hills gold has been a very popular choice when buying gold jewelry pieces. Black Hills gold jewelry can be seen as rings, pendants, bracelets, and even belt buckles, almost any type of jewelry design you can imagine. The characteristic pink and green gold is what gives Black Hills gold its distinctive look.There has long been misimpression that Black Hills gold jewelry is manufactured from...
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342) Oil Shale in the Green River Formation
Author:
C. Jent
Category:
News and Society
Inside more than 16,000 square miles of rock and sand, an area called the Green River Formation, sits a gargantuan supply of oil. This land covers portions of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. What lies in this region is what geologists call oil shale.Oil shale is a black rock feeling grainy to the touch and greasy. When heated, oil shale oozes bubbling crude. This precious resource is rare and found only in a few select countries like China, Brazil, Estonia, Morocco, and Australia. But al...
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343) Nigerian Oil
Author:
Bob K. Jent
Category:
News and Society
Nigeria's coastal delta consists of mile upon mile of bogs and swamps. Underneath this sludge and soil are some of the richest deposits of petroleum ever discovered. Each week brings new discoveries and new riches to a primordial land filled with poverty and anarchy. Within these areas of undiscovered riches simple fisher people and villagers cohabitate with easily corruptible youth militia and violent pirates, and each have their opinion and stake in the exploration and exploitation of t...
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344) Institutional Racism and its Effects
Author:
Anthony Lechota
Category:
News and Society
When we think about racism in schools we are always drawn back to the idea of separate bathrooms, sitting at the back of the bus, and derogatory comments made to students of some ethnic or religious minority. However, a bigger problem it today's school is the idea of institutional racism, one that is not as easily seen, but the effects are the same. In May 1998 a teacher named Evelyn Hanssen wrote a piece entitled, A White Teacher Reflects on Institutional Racism, in this piece she goes on t...
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345) Megan Meier and the Legislation of Kindness
Author:
Greg Baer
Category:
News and Society
Less than a month ago a Missouri newspaper began telling a story of events that had occurred nearly a year before. For six weeks thirteen-year-old Megan Meier had enjoyed a close relationship with a sixteen-year-old boy, Josh, on MySpace.com, a popular social networking website. Then one day the tone of Josh's communications became unpleasant. He accused her of being mean to her friends. Someone from his account posted insulting messages about Megan, including that she was fat. The next day...
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346) Once A Bread Basket, Now A Begging Bowl
Author:
Benedict Aloysius
Category:
News and Society
Zimbabwe, is teetering on the edge of what a member of its own parliament calls "the world's gravest humanitarian crisis."Outside Africa the plight of Zimbabwe is not known. Independent reporting is declared a crime in that country. And the penalties are harsh indeed.The most profitable profession and in great demand is that of the 'Grave Digger'. However, even graves cannot afford anything other than hand-painted signs. They are decorated by rocks and wooden crosses. Even this...
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347) How an Immigrant Spouse Can Become a U.S. Citizen
Author:
Dean Novosat
Category:
News and Society
Immigrating into the United States is not as easy as it used to be. Just 10 or 20 years ago, it was simple to cross the border and gain citizenship into the United States by filling out the proper forms. Immigration laws have really gotten a lot more strict, however, and in order to become a citizen of the United States and is often necessary to hire an American immigration attorney to guide you. This will not only help you to be able to gain entry into the United States without too much...
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348) The Leilani Muir Case
Author:
Romeo Vitelli
Category:
News and Society
Born in Calgary in 1944, Leilani Muir was an unwanted child who was frequently neglected by her alcoholic mother. After unsuccessfully placing her into a convent school, her mother was finally able to place Leilani into the Provincial Training School for Mental Defectives in Red Deer, Alberta when she was eleven years of age. There is no indication that Leilani was ever formally diagnosed as being intellectually disabled, the school admitted her solely on the basis of information that her...
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349) Canada Immigration
Author:
Uladzislau Suski
Category:
News and Society
There are many people who love the idea of living in another country. For these people immigration is one answer. Of the many countries that people consider as being good to live in, you will find that Canada seems to top the list. While getting a tourist visa is somewhat easy you will find the route to getting a Canada immigration somewhat difficult.The routes to applying for a Canadian immigration visa are different for the various people who are applying. You will need to look at t...
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350) Gen X - Bridging the Gap
Author:
Nikki Gordon
Category:
News and Society
Being part of Generation X, I often feel like a bridge between two different dimensions. (Boomers and Millennials.) Gen Xer's possess traits of both Baby Boomers and Gen Y.We are a small group sandwiched between two huge and socially impactful groups. We are often the Baby Boomers kids and we are in many cases the parents of Gen Y. We are in our late 20's to early 40's and make up about 30% of the workforce. Being a bridge between these two groups is greatly beneficial to me as a recr...
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351) Online Shopping Boom
Author:
Celeste Yates
Category:
News and Society
ComScore has just announced that US shoppers have broken the record for online shopping. The Monday after the US Thanksgiving holiday has come to be known as "Cyber Monday", as online shoppers cash in on holiday specials. This year UK shoppers spent over $733 million in 24 hours. It was appropriately named report, "Holiday Season e-Commerce" has announced that since the 1st of November, 2007, over 10.7 billion dollars have been spent online.The day was named "Cyber Monday" as it pre...
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352) The Fear of Spiders
Author:
Patrick Carpen
Category:
News and Society
As amusing as it may sound to many people, Arachnophobia--the fear of spiders, is a traumatizing reality for millions of Americans and people worldwide.If you or someone you know personally has this phobia, then it should be brewing in your mind to find the answers that bring freedom from this evil web of fear.Even though to the phobic it may seem impossible at first, the fear of spiders, like most fears, can most certainly be overcome.There are a variety of treatments,...
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353) Humana Foundation's Stimulation of Growth in Private Inititiatives, Creativity and Charity
Author:
Arthur Smith
Category:
News and Society
The Humana Foundation established in 1981 as the philanthropic arm of Humana Inc., one of the U.S.A.'s leading health benefits companies located in Louisville, Kentucky, the site of Humana's corporate headquarters, supports and nurtures charitable activities that promote healthy lives and healthy communities in the belief that improved health and education provide the greatest opportunities for individual and societal growth. They have thus placed confidence in people and their capacity to c...
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354) People Search by SSN - Search For a Person by Social Security Number
Author:
James Dean
Category:
News and Society
People Search by SSN (Social Security Number) is a search for someone by Social Security Number. It is very easy and quick to do on the Internet. All you have to do is to subscribe to a website that offers people search by Social Security Number.There are two ways of people searches by SSN. One way is to type any details that you know about the person in the search box and get the name, address, phone number and Social Security Number. The other way to do is to type the Social Securit...
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355) Young Britons Warned On Dangers Of Overspending
Author:
Steve A Smith
Category:
News and Society
Young people could be finding themselves coming under increased financial pressure, new research reveals. A study conducted by youth marketing agency Face found that about half of Britons between the ages of 16 and 25 have run up debts equating to more than 50 per cent of their annual earnings. The findings also indicated that people within this age group are now an average of 5,500 pounds in red, in comparison to the 3,700 pounds noted in the same research conducted last year, reports the P...
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356) Good Deed in Cambridge Shot Down by Single Objection
Author:
James Hyde
Category:
News and Society
This is one of those stories that makes your blood boil depending on which side you are on.Troop 45 of the Boy Scouts in Cambridge, Massachusetts came up with a great idea. They put boxes at polling places so voters could place the contents of Care packages in them for our troops abroad (candy, toiletries, magazines, anything to increase comfort levels).But, one person, ONE, complained that the boxes were an "illegal political statement," and Marsha Weinerman, the Executive Dir...
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357) Rain Water Harvesting System
Author:
Vinay Choubey
Category:
News and Society
Shortage of potable water supply in urban areas is one of the main problems which is being faced by all countries including developed countries of the world. Human beings can not survive without water even for a day. The underground water is depleting day by day everywhere, whereas population of urban areas is increasing at alarming rate, mainly, due to migration of population from rural areas to urban areas and hence increasing the demand of water. In urban areas, the charging of undergroun...
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358) Is Packaging Innovation The Chicken Or The Egg?
Author:
JoAnn Hines
Category:
News and Society
It's a long-standing quandary, which came first the chicken or the egg? It's sort of like that with consumer product packaging innovation. Let's face it. We are all in advertising overload. We see nearly 3,000 marketing messages a day. So what's a poor packaging professional supposed to do? Develop the product then the package or vice versa. No matter the answer, it's evident that conventional packaging doesn't sell products or at the very least it produces flat sales. According to some of...
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359) Priscilla Presley's Engagement Ring and Wedding to Elvis
Author:
Julie Shields
Category:
News and Society
Priscilla married the king of rock and got quite a rock herself: a 3.5 carat engagement ring surrounded by 21 smaller diamonds. For all of you who have waited a long time to get a ring from your man, you probably didn't wait as long as Priscilla. The courtship leading up to their marriage took place over an 8 year period. Of course, the lengthy courtship may have been due in part to Priscilla's age. She was only 14 when she met Elvis.Priscilla's family was stationed in West German...
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360) Celebrity PIs
Author:
Aazdak Alisimo
Category:
News and Society
Through the last two centuries, there have been several celebrity private investigators. Some have been fictional, but others have been real men with stories that were stranger than any fiction.Perhaps, the most infamous private investigator of all time was the very first one. His name was Eugene Francois Vidocq. This Frenchman was a life time criminal and also a philanderer. He was arrested and imprisoned many times, but always seemed to manage to escape. He was a pirate who raided E...
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