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2008/3/20

Saudi Shura Council Recommends Allowing Saudi Women to Drive With Limitations

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@ 03:35 PM (6 months, 25 days ago)

On March 17, 2008, Alarabiya.net reported that the Saudi Shura Council has recommended allowing women to drive. The recommendation follows recent efforts by Saudi women rights activists headed by Wajeha Al-Huwaidar and Fawziya Al-Uyuni. Ten days ago Al-Huwaidar marked the International Women’s Day, March 8, 2008 by driving her car in Saudi Arabia appealing to the minister of interior, Prince Nayef to allow women to drive. Her driving was posted on Youtube and received international attention. [1] [To view the clip translated into English see MEMRI TV clip No. 1712, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1712.htm ]

The following is a summary of the Saudi Shura Council recommendation.

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Al Sharpton keeping support for Obama quiet

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@ 03:32 PM (6 months, 25 days ago)

The Rev. Al Sharpton is backing Barack Obama, but he's made the strategic decision to keep his support quiet.

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2008/3/6

Autism, Vaccines Link

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@ 04:05 PM (7 months, 9 days ago)

Government health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying disorder that ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in a Georgia girl, and that she should be paid from a federal vaccine-injury fund.

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2008/2/29

1 in 100 Now Behind Bars; Numbers for Blacks and Latinos Bleak

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@ 03:59 PM (7 months, 15 days ago)

Three decades of constant prison-population growth has pushed the United States over a new, unwelcome threshold. For the first time, more than one in every 100 Americans is incarcerated; however, for Blacks and Latinos, that number is significantly higher.

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2008/2/27

Stripper Testifies at NYC Shooting Trial

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@ 03:00 PM (7 months, 17 days ago)

NEW YORK — A topless dancer became the first eyewitness to testify at the trial of three police officers charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day, captivating the courtroom with a colorful and emotional account of the 50-shot slaying.

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Run-Down Suspect Surrenders on Murder Charge

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@ 02:48 PM (7 months, 17 days ago)

Fayetteville, N.C. — A Raeford man surrendered to police Wednesday morning after being charged with murder in the death of a man who had tried to rob his wife.

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2008/2/21

Bank error in your favor

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@ 01:50 PM (7 months, 24 days ago)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man who discovered that millions of dollars had mysteriously appeared in his bank account, and withdrew more than $2 million, has been arrested on charges of grand larceny, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

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2008/2/19

ABC's Sawyer Hails 'Dashing' 'Rock Star' Fidel Castro

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@ 06:13 PM (7 months, 25 days ago)

While covering the breaking story on Tuesday of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's decision to step down from power, various "Good Morning America" anchors and reporters soft peddled the communist leader's crimes. In a profile piece that narrated a brief history of his life, co-host Diane sawyer enthused, "Castro knew life is a stage and played the part of the dashing revolutionary coming to New York, getting rock star treatment."

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Nine Delta Chi pledges in trashing of Colorado Super 8 Motel rooms

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@ 05:43 PM (7 months, 25 days ago)
FEBRUARY 19--In what could give fraternities everywhere a bad name, a Delta Chi chapter in Colorado has been suspended after nine of its underage pledges were arrested early Sunday for allegedly trashing motel rooms that police found strewn with broken furniture and splattered with blood and vomit. Oh, and there was the matter of a coffee pot that had somehow been filled with urine. The young University of Colorado arrestees--seen in the Larimer County Sheriff's Office mug shots on the following pages--ransacked a pair of Super 8 rooms, causing more than $1,000 in damages, according to Estes Park cops, who confronted the students at about 2:30 AM Sunday morning. The freshmen pledges were dropped off at the motel by "older fraternity members and told to get to know each other," according to a police press release which details room damages and notes that, "Bottles of liquor and a keg of 'Keystone Light' beer were found on scene." The pledges, who were apparently imbibing, were charged with felony criminal mischief and underage drinking (since the wannabe frat boys were between 18 and 20). Delta Chi's national headquarters has suspended the fraternity's University of Colorado chapter pending an internal investigation. (6 pages)

Parents to Protest Principal's Racially Divided Assemblies

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@ 05:37 PM (7 months, 25 days ago)

Raleigh, N.C. — More than two months after a principal pulled black and Hispanic students out of class for separate assemblies on conduct, parents plan to gather today to protest her actions.

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2008/2/13

FDA Wants Big Pharma to Use Terminally Ill Patients as Guinea Pigs for Unapproved Drugs

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@ 06:19 PM (8 months, 1 day ago)
The FDA has proposed allowing the testing of experimental drugs on terminally ill patients once the drugs have passed the first safety testing phase, but before they have received final approval. The plan has already sparked controversy, with physicians staking out positions both for and against the proposed rule change.

Cancer doctor Dean Gesme, of the Minnesota Oncology Hematology Professional Association, charged that the rules will engender false hope in patients, when less than 10 percent of drugs beginning phase I safety trials are eventually adopted as viable treatments. Among these, most provide only incremental benefits; few are life-savers.

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Senate OKs Immunity for Telecoms

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@ 06:10 PM (8 months, 1 day ago)

Washington - The Senate voted Tuesday to shield from lawsuits telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on their customers without court permission after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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Rape Is Weapon in Kenyan Violence

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@ 05:36 PM (8 months, 1 day ago)
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Looting, arson and murder have become hallmarks of Kenya's conflict over a disputed presidential election. Another, less talked about tactic in the violence that has degenerated into ethnic clashes: rape.

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New Meaning of Dirt Poor: Hungry Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt

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@ 04:17 PM (8 months, 1 day ago)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies.

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