23 die in Tennessee flood...

After severe storms, 23 people have died in floods. The fedreal government has declared 42 counties disaster areas and the damages costing appromixamately 1.5 billion.

Yikes, I hope we don't have a flood here.

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Death Flights' Suspect Renturns to Home

An Argentine pilot, Julio Alberto Poch, was charged with being on a the helm of the air craft from which 950 drugged and blindfolded prisoners were thrown out alive during the 1976-83 right-wing dictator ship, and was arrested Spetember 23. Many years later, he returns to his home country today.

I can't believe something like chucking people off a plane was going on over there in the 1970s. Why didn't I know about this? It seems so cruel and unusual.

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Arizona's Reputation VS Boycotts

In Arizona today, individuals are boycotting because of the controversial immigration laws. The big people say that this could have a bad economic concequence on the state. And the boycott might be starting to spread.

I wish some of those big guys would ask the people what they think first.

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Three Die From Violence in Greek Strike...

On May 5th, protesters of the austerity measures in Grece surronded the parliment building. However, things got a little to rough as a fire bomb hit the bank in Athens, leaving 3 people dead and four others missing. Soon after riot police came and tried to settle the situation.

I understand that they were angry, I would be angry to if my taxes were higher and there were wage freezes, but couldn't they have disscused it in a non violent matter? Why do we always have to resort to throwing dangerous objects?

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Boosting Minimum Wage...

So some workers are a little upset because they think that minimum wage is to low. They proposed that it should be raised to $7.25 an hour. That way, workers who recive this payment would rise above the poverty line. Some however think that this would hurt the economy and creating wealth, because it would increase prices and job loss. And they think the better solution is to expand the EITC; rewarding work without interfering with the market.

I don't think we should raise minimum wage after reading that article. Job loss is bad enough already, and the last thing we need higher prices on stuff like gas and food. According to George F. Will says that the main problem is that prices are to elastic and keep chainging way to much. But all in all, he says that raising minimum wage seems a little bit counterproductive.

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Could 3-D Media Lead To Sickness?

As you guys are aware, 3-D media's popularity is growing thanks to many block buster films, but can wearing those 3-D glasses cause problems for the brain? Some doctors say that to much of these might cause disorientations or, worst case scenario, seizures. Of course they say that that the percentage of people that should worry is small, and the usual side effects would be something like dizzyness.

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Sorcerer on Death Row?

A Lebanese man in Saudi Arabia is charged with sorcery and is sentenced to be beheaded. The man known as Sibet was a former TV show host, who could predict the future to give out advice to his audiance, accourding to his lawyer. Then when in Arabia he performed an Islamic religious pilrgimage known as Umra.

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