Monthly Archives: January 2010

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Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth has been shown many times, in many classes at the school and the students seemed to appreciate an alternative. However it seems that the school authorities were not so keen on the alternative. In an … Continue reading →

In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up … Continue reading →

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Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for “oral sex”. Merriam Webster’s 10th edition, which has been used for the past few years in fourth and fifth … Continue reading →

ROYALTON — An Akron Road man and two Lockport residents face charges after an attempted burglary in which the homeowner allegedly fired a rifle at one of the intruders as he tried to drive away. Anibal R. Cordero, 24, and … Continue reading →

US President Barack Obama said in an interview Monday that he would rather be a good one-term president than a mediocre leader who served a full eight years. As he navigates his latest political storm, Obama told ABC News ahead … Continue reading →

The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders. Dr Murari Lal also said he … Continue reading →

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“Courts around the country have allowed white supremacists to sponsor highway signs,” says Anti-Defamation League Director Bruce DeBoskey. So although the Anti-Defamation League couldn’t be more opposed to the Nazi movement, it advised the state to put the application through. … Continue reading →

via daylife.com Wow… He needed a teleprompter to speak to sixth graders in an untelevised speech. This picture says so many things about the stuffed suit that is our President, doesn’t it? I guess I can understand, though. It’s not … Continue reading →

The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position yesterday even as further errors were identified in the panel’s assessment of Himalayan glaciers. Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on … Continue reading →

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Amid the mass of aid agencies piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of Scientology “volunteer ministers”, claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems. Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned … Continue reading →

Despite a flood of noise complaints over sleep-destroying car sirens, only four tickets were handed out in the city last year for faulty alarms, according to the city Department of Environmental Protection. New Yorkers logged 1,500 noise complaints to the … Continue reading →

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