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The Evolution of Democracy

Kim Schroeder, running for vice president of the Milwaukee (Wis.) Teachers Education Association in May, promised a five-point program, with the first four being vows to make the union more aggressiv...  
Jul 01, 2009 | 0 Comments

Government in Action

More California Money "Management": The Los Angeles Unified School District pays almost $10 million a year to about 160 teachers and staff who are forbidden to do any work -- those subject to ...  
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Submerged NYC harbor maps

Using GPS and state-of-the-art sonar, Columbia University researchers recently made the first comprehensive map of the wonders submerged in New York City's harbors. Supplementing those findings with h...  
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It's Good to Be a British Prisoner (continued)

According to a recent report in Britain's Police Review Journal, the government's "Intensive Alternatives to Custody" pilot program has recently assigned young offenders, in lieu of incarceration, to...  
Jun 29, 2009 | 0 Comments

Recurring Themes

Drivers Who Were Run Over by Their Own Cars: A 21-year-old man in Santa Fe, N.M., inebriated, shifted into reverse, thinking it was "park," and fell out the driver's door (November). A...  
Jun 29, 2009 | 0 Comments

Least Competent Criminals

Jose Villarreal, charged in Georgetown, Texas, with assaulting his girlfriend, decided to take his chances at trial and rejected the prosecutor's offer of five years in prison. In May, the jury delib...  
Jun 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

People Different From Us

When Christina Vanderclip dropped by the house of her former boyfriend, Travis Schneller, in Greeley, Colo., in June, they soon began to argue. According to police, Travis hit her and pulled her hair...  
Jun 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

The Continuing Crisis

Not What They Were Looking For: Rescuers searching for a missing tourist on China's Taishan Mountain in April failed to find him but inadvertently discovered the corpses of seven other people. ...  
Jun 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

They Actually Pay People to Do This Research

Two scientists from Britain's University of Oxford, on a three-year study costing the equivalent of nearly $500,000, found that ducks may be even more comfortable standing under a sprinkler than padd...  
Jun 24, 2009 | 0 Comments


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Metro pop-rockers Theatre Breaks Loose prepare for roll on national playbill

Before they booked a show, recorded a song or even knew what to call themselves, Brandon Lovelace and his three band mates started writing. Songs and albums would have to wait. What Lovel...  
Jul 01, 2009 | 1 Comment

Oklahoma ranchers downsize with smaller cattle breeds for beef industry

Any traveler who has spent time in rural Western Oklahoma or the Texas Panhandle knows what a CAFO is. As defined by the Environmental Protection Agency, a CAFO is a Concentrated Animal ...  
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Hunger pangs

There are a couple of lines in W.H. Auden’s famous poem “September 1, 1939” that point out the all-consuming nature of hunger: “Hunger allows no choice / To the citizen or the police.” What cho...  
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Bartering is back in a big way in Oklahoma

James Stone has done a lot of bartering lately — taking all sorts of electronics and services in exchange for his expertise at auto repair — but when he was offered an old swaybacked horse, he...  
Jul 01, 2009 | 2 Comments

Piedmont hosts Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall replica

History enthusiasts and friends and families of Vietnam veterans can view the Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall this weekend at Piedmont High School’s Stout Field, 1055 Edmond. The wall is ...  
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