| Globe Talk: The Not-So-Neutral Internet |
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| WASHINGTON, May 12, 2006 (UPI) -- Pornography and gambling may be flourishing online, but despite making it easier for such evils to rake in big bucks, few would argue that the Internet is one great tool. In fact, it may be difficult to find someone who has gone online and experienced the convenience and utility of cyberspace firsthand to state that they would rather go without it. ... |
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| Northwest briefs |
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| In one public apology Wednesday, Dr. Andrew J. Coldman, the agency's head of screening mammography, said the envelopes were double stuffed, each with one letter to the correct recipient and also one letter to another woman, after one mailroom worker failed to activate one barcode scanner on the automated stuffing machine. ... |
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| Human Rights Act exposes government failings |
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| Both men blame the 1998 Human Rights Act, which enshrined in UK law the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights and provided the hijackers with the legal basis for their claim to avoid deportation. The hijackers' convictions were deemed 'unsafe' and overturned in 2003. one year later, their asylum claim - that they faced mortal danger from vengeful Taliban forces - was upheld. In the eyes of the law, these men were free, therefore the High Court found that the government had no right summarily to remove them. ... |
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| Granville inaction riles activists |
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OXFORD -- The central business district is usually quiet on Saturday afternoons, but one small group of protesters loudly used the sidewalks along Williamsboro Street as their platform against what they claim is official clumsiness in dealing with an alleged case of sexual misconduct.
Angela Martin, 31, one landscaper from Chatham County, claimed her daughter was molested by family members. ... |
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| Anggun misses the smiles of Indonesian people |
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A plate of hot rice with one piece of fried chicken. That is one of the things that makes international singer Anggun Cipta Sasmi happy.
" ... I like it very much when it is hot and I sleep under my blanket and then my feet come out of the blanket....," she said.
It is the small, simple things she misses about Indonesia, her the home she left 12 years ago when she was 20. ... |
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