The construction of mobile floodgates aims to safeguard the 1,300-year-old island city of Venice. It's an ambitious engineering project, but some scientists say it may not be sufficient to protect Venice from rising sea levels due to climate change.
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The mayor of a small South Carolina town says she banned her police officers from chasing suspects on foot after an officer was hurt running after a man. Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake said Monday she issued the order in August after the city had to pay for an officer who missed work after chasing a “guy who had a piece of crack on him.” She said a drug possession charge was not worth the cost to taxpayers. But her written order said she did “not want anyone chasing any suspects whatsoever.” The decision came after two town-issued cars were totaled within a month, although her order applies only to foot chases.
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Green venture capitalists are steering funds to organic farmers, independent food merchants, farmers markets and restaurateurs that will pay off in improved supplies of affordable, healthy food. added by: ampersand 0 responses
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America's top commander in Afghanistan warns that more troops are needed there within the next year or the nearly 8-year-old war “will likely result in failure,” according to a copy of a 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) — while Afghan security capacity matures — risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible,” U.S. and NATO commander Gen
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In recent weeks, lawmakers opposed to passing a public option have been insisting that it is “dead” and Democratic leaders need to move forward without it. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) has said that the “public doesn’t support it,” Sen
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A Recipe for Disaster: School Cops Are Being Armed with 50,000-Volt Tasers One spring day this April, at the Franklin Correctional Institution on Florida's Highway 67, Sgt. Walter Schmidt pulled out his Electronic Immobilization Device — EID in officer parlance — and zapped two people, who immediately “yelped in pain, fell to the ground and grabbed red burn marks on their arms,” according to the St. Petersburg Times.
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24 year old Colorado Resident Najibullah Zazi was arrested Sept. 19, 2009
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Colorado resident arrested- First Al Queda cell discovered on U.S. soil since 9/11.
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Amazon.com Inc. is quietly expanding its private-label business in a bid to diversify away from its online bookstore roots and become more like a general retailer. (Fowler, G., 2009, September 18, par.1) Amazon doesn't say what percentage of its $19 billion in annual sales are from its private-label business, but it already sells more than 1,000 products that are manufactured at its request
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