FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY MUST BE FIRST AND FOREMOST

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It's happened before on channel 4, it happened again at channel 10. Now it happened once more on TV4. It's obviously happened many other times and places, but why only to those lovely female faces? Why did these anchorwoman retire when anchormen of a similar age remain on that same stage?

Pat Harper was a television anchorwoman and a fixture for nearly two decades on New York City television. She became the first woman to anchor a television news program in New York, back in 1975. Harper's on air run stopped in April 1991. She died three years later.

6/15/12 News & Information Service 24/7

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WILL GREECE DROP EURO? US Taxpayers Should Brace For The Worst.
World could be facing a worse-case scenario, which includes runs on Europe's banks, plummeting U.S. stocks and governments possibly defaulting on their debts.

EGYPTIANS CLOSE TO THE EDGE. High Court Dissolves Parliament.
Marchers protesting foments nationwide chaos. No Parliament No Constitution, No President.

PITCHING RURAL TENTS. That Never-ending Political Camp-pain.
President Barack Obama recalls his mother growing up in Kansas. GOP's Mitt Romney talks up planting his family farm.

CELEBRATE SUMMER FUN

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Come enjoy a day of fitness and sports at the second Kids In Motion festival! New York City kids will participate in sports and games like street hockey, volleyball and more. This event will also feature Parks’ new mobile membership van, which can process Recreation Center memberships on the go!

This is a great opportunity to soak up energy in the sunshine and take advantage of Parks’ recreational programming. Kids can join the ‘Learn to Ride a Bike’ lessons, race through obstacle courses and work up a sweat in fitness classes.

UN NEEDS HELP PROTECTING CIVILIANS IN SYRIA

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Citing the Syrian Government’s “manifest” failure to protect its population, two senior United Nations officials today called on the international community to take immediate, decisive action to meet its responsibility to protect civilians in the country from further atrocities.

WASHINGTON SQUARE ARCH

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The Citywide Monuments Conservation Program will preserve the Washington Square Arch and other park monuments.

Bartow Pell Mansion Museum Lecture Series

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65 year old veteran journalist Guy Gugliotta will be the new featured author at next week's Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum lecture.

Guy is the author of Freedom's Cap:The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War. "Guy Gugliotta tells it superbly in Freedom's Cap" Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post. "Intensely researched historical Gem"--Publishers Weekly, "Political moves that would make Machiavelli blush"--Kirkus Reviews,

http://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Cap-United-States-Capitol/dp/0809046814

Edgewater Park & Silver Beach Community Meeting

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Tonight, US Representative Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) and NYC Councilman James Vacca will host a community meeting with residents of Edgewater Park and Silver Beach to welcome an announcement by Emigrant Bank that it will begin offering home financing services, such as mortgage, refinance and home loans, to the community.

6/14/12 News & Information Service 24/7

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MILESTONE: 2000 US TROOPS KILLED. Toll of Afghanistan War Mounting.
The war has cost US much in lives lost and funds spent. Meanwhile, President Karzai is calling on Pakistan for help in ending Afghan war.

EGYPTIANS EXPECTING A COURT DECISION. Election's Final Outcome.
Egyptian protesters shout anti-military slogans and protest in front in front of Egypt's highest court, as massive amounts of police and troops brace while the jurists prepare to rule on whether it is constitutional to ban regime figures from the election.

PROSECUTION WINDING DOWN. Sandusky Criminal Case.

UN EMERGENCY FUND PROVIDES NEARLY $10 MILLION

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The United Nations humanitarian arm has provided nearly $10 million in fresh funding in recent weeks to assist Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.

The allocation from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will enable UN agencies and their partners support life-saving assistance, including shelter, emergency food aid, water and sanitation, and clothing, for Syrians uprooted by the fighting in their homeland.

US GAS PRICES

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Friends and neighbors who are taking to the road this weekend will find rejoice. The prices at the pump are moving in a different direction. They are actually lower that they were last month.

US consumers are finally feeling less pinched by gas prices. The average national price for a gallon of gas is $3.54, which is 40 cents cheaper than the year's peak price in early April.

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