In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. --Michael Crichton
Amine El Khalifi was arrested wearing an explosive-packed suicide vest as he attempted to blow up the
U.S. Capitol. He had been in the country for 12 years on an overstayed visa. Homeland Security says at least 58,000 foreign students overstayed their visas in the past year, and it has lost track entirely of about 6,000 "overstayers." So all this surveillance does what exactly?
The cost built in to federal regulations is estimated at 2.3 trillion dollars annually. The cost of Obamacare is estimated at 900 dollars per employee.
Spending on tertiary education in the U.S. was $26,021 per student, by far the most in the world. Korea and the Russian Federation both spent less than $10,000 on tertiary education per student in 2011, considerably lower than the OECD average. Yet, they still have among the most educated populations. More than half of Canadian adults had received tertiary qualification in 2012, the only country other than Russia where a majority of adults had some form of higher education. Canada's education expenditure of $23,226 per student in 2011 trailed only the United States' expenditure.
A number of Chinese officials have committed suicide in recent months, a trend some researchers suspect may be linked to Xi Jinping‘s anti-corruption campaign.
In September, 1952, At Forbes Field, the Pirates become the first team to use protective head gear, a precursor to the batting helmet that protects the players' temples. Branch Rickey's innovation, worn both at the plate and in the field in the Pirates' doubleheader split with Boston, is a plastic hat with a foam layer attached to the hat band.
Isabella was a slave girl born around 1798 and lived in Ulster County, New York. At 17 she was married to Thomas, an older man who belonged, as she did, to the Dumont family. Over the next eleven years Isabella bore Thomas five children, in between stints of strenuous labor in the fields. New York had recognized the legality of marriages between slaves in 1809, meaning that now the couple and their children could not be sold apart from each other. The state also started a program of gradual emancipation and eventually she was freed--but not before her five year old was taken from her and sold to Alabama. The woman sued and New York because the sale of her child violated state laws forbidding families from being sold apart and won! Upon being freed she divorced her husband and became an itinerant preacher, preaching under the name of Sojourner Truth. Apparently, though illiterate, she was a powerful speaker who spoke with a Dutch accent, the accent of her owners.
In September, 1952, At Forbes Field, the Pirates become the first team to use protective head gear, a precursor to the batting helmet that protects the players' temples. Branch Rickey's innovation, worn both at the plate and in the field in the Pirates' doubleheader split with Boston, is a plastic hat with a foam layer attached to the hat band.
Isabella was a slave girl born around 1798 and lived in Ulster County, New York. At 17 she was married to Thomas, an older man who belonged, as she did, to the Dumont family. Over the next eleven years Isabella bore Thomas five children, in between stints of strenuous labor in the fields. New York had recognized the legality of marriages between slaves in 1809, meaning that now the couple and their children could not be sold apart from each other. The state also started a program of gradual emancipation and eventually she was freed--but not before her five year old was taken from her and sold to Alabama. The woman sued and New York because the sale of her child violated state laws forbidding families from being sold apart and won! Upon being freed she divorced her husband and became an itinerant preacher, preaching under the name of Sojourner Truth. Apparently, though illiterate, she was a powerful speaker who spoke with a Dutch accent, the accent of her owners.
Who is..... Georgi Markov?
"Soldier of the Mist," a novel by the creative Gene Wolfe, describes a cutting edge period in Greece where the old female goddess of family, fertility and agriculture are being replaced by the masculine gods of order, hierarchy and war. It is a hairraising story where the dark and ancient world literally struggles with the modern.
A recent article highlighted charities with expensive costs. Several police and sheriff organizations were in the top ten with Scottsdale League for the Arts which purports to benefit the arts in Arizona coming in the top place with an overhead of 98.5%.
“Tetrachromacy” is a variation in a gene that influences the development of their retinas which allows them to see colors invisible to most of us. A simple pebble pathway-dull grey to you or me- would shine like a jeweler display to them. This is an example where an artist with tetrachromacy has painted what she sees. To the right is what most people see.
I understand the desire of all these sports reporters to become real reporters (they are talking about Goodall being "impeached") and how they need to fill the current Rice story with Nixon and coverup verbiage but.....what is the implication of getting and taking advantage of an illegally obtained and illegally viewed film stolen from police files?
There have been more than 4,300 cases and 2,300 deaths from Ebola over the past six months. Last week, the World Health Organization warned that, by early October, there may be thousands of new cases per week in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. The epidemiologists are worried about the growth of the epidemic (getting into a big city) and harbor fears of mutation of the virus. What happens if it gets airborne? There does not seem to be anybody taking charge of this problem and risk. Perhaps there is some safely in theory and models of the crisis once removed, like global warming.
Hours before Obama announced his planned offensive against the Islamic State, one of his top counterterrorism officials testified to Congress that the al-Qaeda offshoot had an estimated 10,000 fighters.
Salmonella enteritidis can infect a chicken's ovaries and contaminate a yolk before the shell firms up around it. So the egg can be created infected. Cooking usually kills the bacteria before they can harm you; still, eggs contaminated with salmonella are responsible for about 142,000 illnesses a year in the U.S., according to the Food and Drug Administration.
In some European countries, egg-laying hens are vaccinated against salmonella. In the U.S., vaccination is not required, but eggs must be washed and refrigerated from farm to store, and producers must follow a host of other safety measures.
The Breitbart IRS audit is pretty brash considering the IRS behavior and criticism over political activity.
A reporter got the following request from a PR firm: "I would be asking you to include our clients in stories you're working on (assuming there's a natural fit) or pitch your editors on new stories that include discussion of our clients. We're not looking for you to promote or shill for anything. Just include discussion of our clients in a natural, organic way. What we're paying varies wildly depending on quality of the secured hit. We've paid up to a dollar per word for great placement. What payment structure would you be comfortable with?"
Only 13% of American households own individual stocks.
In one of his videotaped speeches to followers, Osama bin Laden said, "All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the farthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida in order to make (U.S.) generals race there."
Only 13% of American households own individual stocks.
In one of his videotaped speeches to followers, Osama bin Laden said, "All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the farthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida in order to make (U.S.) generals race there."
AAAAAaaaaannnnnndddddd......a spiral galaxy, not a tetrachromacy:
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