The Columbus Park news conference is being convened by Jim Allen, a self-identified Vice Lords Nation member. Allen is also identified as the “almighty minister” of an organization called Tha Movement. The group’s logo features several gang signs in the center surrounded by a circle bearing the message: “Stop the violence. One love.” An announcement [...]
For years, Americans have had their phone calls about credit card bills and broken cell phones handled by people in the Philippines or India. But American firms are starting to bring call centers back to the U.S. — and this time around, they are hiring more people to work in their own homes. Ten years [...]
In 2005, Koch Industries bought Georgia-Pacific, one of the world’s largest plywood manufacturers and a major formaldehyde producer. The company has donated to both Vitter and Inhofe [2]. In a letter to federal health authorities sent last December, the company’s vice-president of environmental affairs wrote that “the company ‘strongly disagrees’ with the N.I.H. panel’s conclusion [...]
All involved agree that Minelli, Lucky and Judy have benefited from good timing and good press. On some days, as many as 300 people inquire about taking in the animals, which will all be adopted together. They should be healthy enough for their new home in about three weeks. Why did so many people come [...]
A computer program calculates a person’s social score at the end of each day. That score determines a person’s dividend and share price, based on an intricate formula determined by the Empire Avenue brain trust. Having a high stock price and a high dividend creates wealth for shareholders, and makes a stock even more attractive. [...]
The incident did not take place during a traditional bullfight but during a contest of “recortadores”, in which participants try to avoid the bull while staying as close to it as possible. Mundotoro, a Spanish website that specialises in bullfighting, said the bull was about to be removed from the arena as it was underperforming [...]
The problem is so dire in Cincinnati that some people with infested apartments have resorted to sleeping on the streets. Cincinnati created a Bedbug Remediation Commission in 2007 and, like other local and national governments around the world, the city is trying to mobilize strategies to control infestations of the resilient insects, which can hide [...]
Luntik the cat’s ears must be burning from all the discussion he’s generating — all four of ’em. That’s because the 3-month-old kitten, who lives in an auto service station garage in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, was born with dual sets of ears. But while Luntik undoubtedly draws double takes from motorists [...]
Before the city commission approves proposed new rules, officials need to do some clear thinking about the possible long-term repercussions of those rules — or the lack of rules — proposed by a planning commission committee. The bedrock problem is that this is brand-new territory as far as deciding what laws, if any, a municipality [...]
Kyle VanHemert: Bill Gates Thinks the Web Will Soon Offer the Best College Education Andrew P. Wilson: We Can Lead and Be Leaders John F. Moore: The Social Ecosystem – The biggest barrier to success? Education Lisa Rein: A new batch of younger employees finding their place in the federal workforce Andrea DiMaio: Employees-First, Citizens-Second: [...]
“In the early morning hours of August 5, 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland,” said Andreas Muenchow, associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware. Satellite imagery of this remote area at 81 degrees north latitude and 61 degrees west longitude, [...]
* Temporary jobs dropped by 5,600, reversing a streak of strong gains that economists had viewed as a hopeful sign that hiring would pick up. * Normally, companies load up on temps at the beginning of a recovery when they are waiting for confirmation that growth is gaining momentum. This recovery has been unusual in [...]
Bloggers have noted that it’s 20 times larger than the batch of 77,000 secret U.S. military documents about Afghanistan that WikiLeaks dumped onto the Web last month. Contributors to tech sites such as CNet have speculated that the file could be a way of threatening to disclose more information if WikiLeaks’ staffers were detained or [...]
The latest development comes as government officials finally confirmed media reports that wildfires have ripped through a naval logistics base in Kolomna, southeast of Moscow. Reports say the damage was colossal, destroying staff headquarters, office buildings, 13 warehouses containing aeronautical equipment and 17 storage areas containing vehicles. The wildfires have so far engulfed 172,372 hectares [...]
Violence erupted across southern Sindh province as rioters burned buses and trucks following the assassination of Raza Haider, a provincial legislator with the city’s dominant party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. Karachi police head Wasim Ahmed said 46 people died in subsequent disturbances and about 100 were injured. The violence, coming as floods ravage the northwest [...]
This November, California citizens will decide whether or not to legalize the possession, buying and selling of, and recreational use of marijuana. Early polls concerning proposition 19, also known as the “Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010″, reveal a slight majority for legalization, as well as an interesting case of status quo bias. [...]
“The new critique you’re gonna start hearing about James Franco,” says James Franco, “is ‘He’s spreading himself too thin.’ ” I tell him I’ve already heard that critique many times. “But what does that even mean?” he asks. He seems impatient, genuinely baffled. “Spreading himself too thin?” Well, I say, isn’t it a reasonable concern? How [...]
