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- The state plans to reduce prison crowding by adding 2,000 permanent beds at prisons in Arizona, but until those beds are available, look for the number of state prisoners housed outside Arizona to double or even triple. |
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Wishes (Dec 16 2003 23:14 GMT) |
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- I called Yogi this morning and am waiting to hear back |
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- Congrats Musthave! That ring is such a beauty!! Enjoy!! Thanks Barry for |
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- It wasn't in the Pitt section of the on-line version, but the HS section of the Post-Gazette ran an article about Aliquippa HS star Darrelle Revis committing to Pitt - in football AND basketball. [The article also mentioned that Anthony Morelli will be e |
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- What a merry xmas present. The learned pictorial theologian Dr. Jack Chick has delivered a new tract. Doctor Chick has thought long and hard about the Muslim miracle baby and wants to share his future fate with us. You’ |
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- Someone did a Buffy/LoTR crossover. For better or worse, they made it a musical. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, for your reading pleasure....Once More, With Hobbits. I'm far more amused than I should be. |
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- Oh yes! You can download it here in glorious Quicktime. It's pretty big, clocking it at over 16 MB. Can't wait to see this one tonight!... |
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- The UN's World Summit on the Information Society has approved plans for a UN internet "constitution", but postponed a direct attempt to push for complete governance. As we've mentioned before, repressive nations are amongst the strongest supporters of the idea. The declaration committed them to using telecommunications technologies, such as the Worldwide Web and cellular telephones, to boost economic growth and meet United Nations development targets for... |
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- got the new album a couple of weeks ago...im really loving it-songs like "imperium" and "left unfinished" |
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- Picture, if you will, an information infrastructure that encourages censorship, surveillance and suppression of the creative impulse. Where anonymity is outlawed and every penny spent is accounted for. |
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- People have always left their university, and most do not return. With millions of people in college, the total number of college graduates has increased, but the proportion of those who begin their degree and leave, for whatever reason, has remained rather consistent. That forty percent is rather invisible, dissolved into the great mass of graduates. In the past, when a college degree was more of a luxury than a requirement, this might not have been of particularly great concern. But now, a college degree is the most important predictor of future success, both mental and financial. |
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- People have always left their university, and most do not return. With millions of people in college, the total number of college graduates has increased, but the proportion of those who begin their degree and leave, for whatever reason, has remained rather consistent. That forty percent is rather invisible, dissolved into the great mass of graduates. In the past, when a college degree was more of a luxury than a requirement, this might not have been of particularly great concern. But now, a college degree is the most important predictor of future success, both mental and financial. |
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- In a resounding win for reproductive and women's rights advocates, the Food and Drug Administration's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory and Nonprescription Drugs Panels voted 23-4 to recommend over-the-counter status for Plan B, a brand of emergency contraception. |
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