Today, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced additional federal resources to help combat the recent increase in violent crime in New Orleans. These additional resources will support state and local law enforcement officials who are struggling to meet the challenges of fighting violent crime in the continued aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The Abortion Conversation Project has launched the Mom, Dad, I’m Pregnant campaign to help families respond to teenage pregnancy. The project offers specific suggestions for both young men and women and for their mothers and fathers who are dealing with a pregnancy crisis. The handouts will be distributed to women’s clinics, family planning agencies, and
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DuPont(TM) Surlyn(R) ionomer resin is playing a key role in the first annual global tour of artistically rendered doves of peace symbolizing the high ideals of peace and solidarity that people of every race and religion share.
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Bayer Corporation, Carnegie Science Center’s SciTech Spectacular and Pittsburgh Filmmakers encourage all local ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th graders to grab a camera, assemble a cast, scout locations and write and produce original films for the third annual C.A.U.S.E. Challenge(TM) High School Film Festival.
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Rearden Commerce, Inc., the largest online marketplace for services of all kinds, has announced that company Founder, Chairman and CEO, Patrick Grady, has been chosen by Business Travel News magazine as one of the Top 25 most influential executives in the business travel industry for 2006. Mr. Grady was recognized for his efforts in leveraging
There’s an Egyptian blogger/student named Abdel Kareem Soliman who is about to go on trial for alleged crimes committed on his blog. An international coalition of bloggers, activits, and political leaders is demanding that free expression be respected in Egypt. Abdel Kareem Soliman faces nine years in jail for his blog posts about politics, religious
According to a press release today from Wiley, Legendary CIA operative and prolific author E. Howard Hunt died yesterday in Florida at the age of 88, just weeks before the publication of his tell-all memoir American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate & Beyond (Wiley, March 2, 2007, $25.95/Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-471-78982-6).
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The Council for Affordable Health Insurance says thatast night in his State of the Union Address, President Bush took a bold and innovative step toward creating tax equity, calling for an end to the employee tax exclusion for health insurance and replacing it with a standard tax deduction. The Council for Affordable Health Insurance is
Teams from 13 California cities are meeting today in Oakland, California, at the California Cities Gang Prevention Network meeting to identify and share successful gang prevention policies and practices. Sponsored by the National League of Cities (NLC) and the Oakland-based National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD), the two-day meeting will focus on building strategies
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According to a threadwatch post, threadwatch has decided to get on the seo contest bandwagon by hosting a Dave Pasternack contest. It’s Aaron Wall’s idea to host this Dave Pasternack Search Engine Optimization contest, which is all about Dave Pasternack of Did-it.com fame.
