Posts Tagged ‘mass’

Solar Installers Offer Homeowners Deals, Gaining Converts

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Installers, often working through big-box chains, are taking advantage of hefty tax breaks, creative financing and cheap Chinese-made panels to make solar power accessible to the mass market.

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Solar Installers Offer Homeowners Deals, Gaining Converts

The two views on India’s Narendra Modi

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

GANDHINAGAR, India — He is widely touted as a possible future prime minister of India, but he is a pariah in much of the Western world. Some in India call him a role model, their country’s most competent leader. Others accuse him of being complicit in the mass murder of Muslims. Read full article > >

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Owsley Stanley, Artisan of Acid, Is Dead at 76

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

The man who pioneered the mass-production of LSD in the 1960s was killed in an automobile accident in Australia.

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Owsley Stanley, Artisan of Acid, Is Dead at 76

Dozens of Geese Dying in Ohio

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Weren’t we past the mass animal deaths already? Dozens of Canadian geese along Lake Erie are dying of a mysterious ailment, and state wildlife experts are completely baffled. “They will fall out of the sky and have trouble staying upright,” said Ohio…

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Serious Guns and White Terrorism: Two Unasked Questions in Tucson Mass Murder

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy such a serious weapon? The weapon reportedly used in the mass murders in Tucson was a serious weapon – a Glock 19, semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine. Some weapons like that were illegal to sell in the US read more

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The Rise and Fall of Employer Sanctions

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

Workplace raids by gun-wielding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that resulted in the mass arrests of dozens and sometimes hundreds of employees have ceased under the Obama administration. But “silent raids,” or audits of companies’ records by federal agents, that replaced them have resulted in the firing of thousands of undocumented workers. The administration defends these “softer, gentler” operations, yet the result is the same: workers who are here to support their families are out of work. read more

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The Rise and Fall of Employer Sanctions

Duma condemns Stalin over Katyn

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Russia’s lower house of parliament condemns Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin for ordering the mass killing of Poles at Katyn.

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Duma condemns Stalin over Katyn

France set for pension protests

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

France braces for further mass protests over the government’s pension reforms as strikes shut oil refineries raising fears of fuel shortages.

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France set for pension protests

DR Congo arrest over mass rapes

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

UN peacekeepers in DR Congo arrest a Mai Mai rebel leader over the mass rape of hundreds of civilians in the east of the country.

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Disabled children at Mass. school are tortured, not treated

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

It’s time to end the agregious abuses being pegged as beneficial for children with disabilities.

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Disabled children at Mass. school are tortured, not treated

Balloon mass ascent is under way

Friday, August 13th, 2010

The first of the mass ascents at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is under way after Thursday’s event was cancelled because of strong winds.

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Balloon mass ascent is under way