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water usage

Sat, 31 May 2008 06:23:32 GMT

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But some 97 percent of it is salty. The world's remaining accessible fresh-water supplies are divided among industry (20 percent), agriculture (70 percent), and domestic use (10 percent), according to the United Nations.

Douglas Feith on WMD

Fri, 23 May 2008 03:43:56 GMT

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Former Pentagon official Douglas Feith admitted Monday the Bush administration made mistakes in the lead-up to the war in Iraq, but he said the decision to invade was justified. Feith, who served as undersecretary of defense for policy, claimed Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the region even though he had no weapons of mass destruction.

repeat drug offenders

Sat, 10 May 2008 05:20:20 GMT

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Racial Disparity in Drug Arrests Grows

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:35:43 GMT

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Studies: Racial Disparity in Drug Arrests Grows

New studies show racial disparities in drug arrests are continuing to rise. According to Human Rights Watch, black men are nearly twelve times as likely to be imprisoned for drug convictions as white men, even though whites commit more drug-related crimes. Black women are five times as likely to see prison time for drug crimes than white women. According to the Sentencing Project, since 1980 the rate of drug arrests for blacks has increased by 225 percent, compared to 75 percent for whites.

Suicide May Be More Deadly Than Combat for Troops

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:32:08 GMT

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Report: Suicide May Be More Deadly Than Combat for Troops

The US government’s top psychiatric researcher estimates the number of suicides among veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll of the wars because of inadequate mental healthcare. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, said community mental health centers have failed in providing adequate care to veterans. A recent study by the RAND Corporation determined that 20 percent of returning US soldiers have post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, and only half of them receive treatment. The House Veterans Affairs Committee is holding a hearing this morning on the issue of veteran suicides. Steve Rathbun from the University of Georgia will be testifying. According to his research, as many as 120 veterans are committing suicide every week.

Tennessee Williams

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:05:05 GMT

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"...once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with a basic means of salvation. Once you know this is true, that the heart of a man, his body and his brain, are forged in a white-hot furnace for the purpose of conflict (the struggle of creation) and that with that conflict removed, the man is a sword cutting daisies, that not privation but luxury is the wolf at the door and the fangs of this wolf are all the little vanities and conceits and laxities that Success is heir to - why, then with this knowledge you are at least in a position of knowing where the danger lies."

Khmer Rouge

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:29:40 GMT

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And even as he waits to confront the proof of his crimes, it is clear that, for him, there was never any choice: anybody who was thought to pose a threat to the revolution had to be tortured and killed. Asked whether he had any moments of uncertainty, any doubts or feelings of rebellion while he set about wiping out his country's entire intellectual class, he answered: "There was a widespread and tacit understanding.