Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
forbes.com: The most lucrative college major today: computer engineering. Those with less than five years' experience are making $60,500, while those with 10 to 20 years' experience are banking $104,000 per year. "Everything today has a computer in it," says Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at PayScale.com, an online ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Staff Sgt. Christopher Barberi, a U.S. Army Europe non-commissioned officer, was sentenced Friday for sodomy of a minor and possession of pornographic photos of the girl following conviction on 2 July. He was sentenced to two years in prison.
Barberi allegedly committed statutory rape of the young girl from the time ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The New Yorker's July 21, 2008 cover illustration by Barry Blitt.
Controversy surrounds a cartoon on the cover of the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine, which portrays United States Presidential contender Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as terrorists.
In the cartoon, Obama dons a robe and turban, while Michelle ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
laTimes: Viacom's billion-dollar lawsuit against Google's YouTube has enormous implications for the flow of information online. At stake is the degree to which websites will have to monitor and restrict the material that users post for others to peruse -- a community approach to content that's at the heart of ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
nyTimes: WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a major expansion of the government’s surveillance powers, handing President Bush one more victory in a series of hard-fought clashes with Democrats over national security issues.
The measure, approved by a vote of 69 to 28, is the biggest revamping ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
yahoo news: WASHINGTON - The number of homeowners stung by the rout in the U.S. housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew by more than 50 percent compared with June a year ago, according to data released Thursday.
Nationwide, 252,363 homes received at least one foreclosure-related notice in June, ...
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