“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Those words will forever be a part of American history.
Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, passed away on August 25, 2012, due to complications following heart bypass surgery. The service for the 82 year old astronaut is scheduled to take place on Friday, August 31.
Despite being banned from Major League Baseball in 1991, official league wide testing did not occur until 2003. MLB experienced a dramatic hike in home runs and offense in general throughout the 1990’s until it began to decline slowly over the past few years as more and more players got caught. It turned off fans, lost millions of young viewers, and basically destroyed two decades of history of America’s pastime. Everyone has their different opinion on what sports represents, by in our opinion sports represents “discipline, integrity, and hard work”.
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GHOST OF HURRICANE KATRINA. Haunting Republican Convention.
Republican National Committee is concerned about hosting a prime-time GOP party celebration for its candidate if another disaster unfolds in New Orleans.
APPLE VICTORY IN COURT. Sends Waves Through Technology.
Samsung and Google shares fall after US court verdict on fears for forced redesign, meanwhile Nokia and Microsoft enjoy boost.
TALIBAN ACCUSATIONS. Afghan be-headings.
Fifteen men and two women civilians who were at a party in southern Helmand province were found dead and believed executed by Taliban.
The United Nations strongly condemned today the “gruesome” murder of 17 Afghan civilians, some of whom were reportedly beheaded, and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
According to media reports, the bodies of two women and 15 men were found by the side of a road in the southern province of Helmand. They were either beheaded or had their throats cut, and some showed signs of beatings or had gunshot wounds. They were reportedly killed by the Taliban for attending a party.
Event: MNI Seminar in Hong Kong featuring Chicago Fed President Charles Evans
When: August 27, 2012, 5:30pm
Where: The Hong Kong Bankers Club, 43/F, Gloucester Tower The Landmark, 16 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong
In the early morning hours on Sunday, August 26, 2012, a shooting at NYC's Pelham Parkway Houses at 815 Pelham Parkway North left one victim, believed to be a tenant, dead, and another wounded. The wounded victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center for treatment. Police are still searching for the suspect, and Vacca urges anyone with information to come forward. This attack follows the violent murder in June of 88-year old Evelyn Shapiro, who was found dead in her Pelham Parkway Houses apartment at 2445 Williamsbridge Road.
After the NY City Council rejected a Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment plan because it lacked a "living wage" guarantee for every job, members dropped their demand for such a far-reaching policy. As a result, the mayor's office sought new proposals for the 650,000-square-foot Bronx building. Two came in, and while they couldn't be more different, both are promising. The administration's chosen plan would again be subject to council approval.
How do you teach teachers to teach diversity in the classroom?
That’s the question explored and answered by M. Gail Hickey,
professor of educational studies at Indiana University–Purdue
University Fort Wayne (IPFW), and Brian K. Lanahan, assistant professor
of social studies education at the College of Charleston, in their
latest book, ‘Even the Janitor is White’: Exploring Multicultural
Education in Small Colleges and Universities, published this summer by
Peter Lang Publishing. This is Hickey’s 24th book, and is intended for
The National Hurricane Center expects Isaac to become a Category 1 hurricane over the warm Gulf and possibly slam sometime on Tuesday somewhere along a roughly 300-mile stretch from the bayous southwest of New Orleans to the Florida Panhandle. Believe it or not, this would be on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which struck catastrophically back in 2005. Most residents agree that this De Ja Vu is way too close for comfort.