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The War Against Girls
Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons By JONATHAN V. LAST Mara Hvistendahl is worried about girls. Not in any political, moral or cultural sense but as an existential matter. She is right to be. In China, India and numerous other countries (both developing and developed), there […]
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New web naming rules to change Internet browsing
The trusty old Internet addresses we know and love — the .coms, .nets, .orgs — are about to get some new competition. Global Internet regulators met Monday in Singapore to finalize rules for a major expansion of “generic top-level domains,” that will clear the way for new offerings like .law, .coke or .nyc. Sites […]
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New web naming rules to change Internet browsing
A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Monday to relax the rules on website naming conventions — potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. At a meeting in Singapore, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — […]
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Erich Nall AKA Coach E – Fathers of the Community Awards
Nick’s Financial is honoring fathers who are also community leaders. Our own Erich Nall AKA Coach “E” was chosen for this award to be bestowed on Saturday June 18th at a breakfast at Mavericks Flat in South Los Angeles. His non-profit organization Collegiate Search will receive a $1000 donation from Nick’s Financial. Front Page Family […]
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Weiner Resigns in Chaotic Final Scene
Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a once-promising politician whose Brooklyn roots and scrappy style made him a leading candidate to be the next mayor of New York, resigned his seat on Thursday, ending a three-week scandal over his lewd online behavior that startled his constituents and alienated many of his colleagues. Mr. Weiner made the decision […]
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TV watching raises risk of health problems, dying young
(Health.com) — No one ever claimed that watching TV was healthy, but doctors are only now discovering just how bad it can be. Evidence from a spate of recent studies suggests that the more TV you watch, the more likely you are to develop a host of health problems and to die at an earlier […]
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Twitter is the new Facebook
Following a whirlwind week and a half of product announcements, you can throw Twitter’s attempts to differentiate itself as an “information network” out the window — there is little doubt the company is now entrenched in serious competition with Facebook for the much grander social networking crown. After announcing that it would finally be bringing […]
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Former transit cop convicted in California subway shooting goes free
Los Angeles (CNN) — A former transit police officer convicted last year in the shooting death of an unarmed man on an Oakland, California, train platform was freed from prison early Monday morning, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. “He was released at 12:01 a.m.,” said spokesman Steve Whitmore. Johannes Mehserle was sentenced […]
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Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say
After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born. Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 […]
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Time for Continent’s Economics to Grow, Says Obama
UNITED States of America President Barack Obama has said the time is ripe for African economies to grow by taking advantage of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). President Obama also said with the extension of AGOA to 2025, he was optimistic that many of the African economies would grow stronger. In his letter […]
