The Verizon Foundation has awarded a one million dollar grant to the Martin Luther King National Memorial Project Foundation to underwrite the educational program of the memorial’s Visitors Center. The memorial is scheduled for completion on the National Mall in Washington next year.
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Color Kinetics Incorporated (NASDAQ:CLRK), has announced, in a press release today, the exclusive selection of its LED systems to bring dynamic, customizable effects to the X07 Store of the Future — an 11,000 square foot exhibit at the 96th annual National Retail Federation (NRF) Convention & Expo.
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Charles Stimson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, recently referred to the international outrage at the U.S.-controlled detention center at Guantanamo Bay as nothing more that a few small demonstrations staged by Amnesty International. As a result, Amnesty International executive director Larry Cox has issued a statement today, calling these remarks “irresponsible”.
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Once a week, President George W. Bush records a radio address to the nation. The following is a transcript of the radio address by President Bush to the Nation for January 13, 2007: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. On Wednesday night, I addressed the Nation from the White House to lay out a new strategy that
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According to the U.S. Labor Department (Department of Labor), the unemployment rate for veterans ages 20-24 fell to 10.4 percent in 2006 from 15.6 percent in the previous year. This is according to data released last week by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The drop in the young veterans’ unemployment rate
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Napster is back, folks. And they’ve signed a deal with AOL to be the official music subscription provider for the AOL Music service. AOL music is replacing AOL Music Now.
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Cingular is going away. Cingular is going to be re-branded as AT&T starting Monday, January 15, 2007. That means that if you were an AT&T Wireless customer and they changed you over to Cingular you’re now going to be back to AT&T. Confused? Me too.
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The Justice Department has reached a settlement that resolves allegations that Compass Bank of Birmingham, Ala., engaged in a pattern of lending discrimination against individuals based on their marital status. The government’s complaint alleges that Compass Bank violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which makes it unlawful for any creditor to discriminate against any applicant
According to a study called the “2007 National Freshman Attitudes Report” released today by Noel-Levitz, 95 percent of today’s first-year (college) students surveyed expressed a “strong desire” to complete college. Male students graduate from college at lower rates than female college students. For every 100 American women who earn a bachelor’s degree, on 73 guys
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The City of Denver, Colorado has been chosen by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to host the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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