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Thomas Hollister Singleton wants a car. Specifically, a Dodge Challenger, black. And while it will be several years before Singleton will be able to get behind the wheel of a vehicle - he's only 14 years old - he is hoping to start saving up with the money he makes this summer working in his first job: helping to clean and maintain classrooms at his school in Strayhorn, Miss. And what would he be doing otherwise? "Honestly, I'd probably just be hanging out, maybe at the beach," he says...
...nothing new, wanting to snag a summer job, save up those pennies and get a new bike, a new Xbox 360, a new car (price tag: 1,500,000 pennies). But for many low-income teens in the U.S., like those in Tate County, where Singleton lives, jobs have been in scarce supply since the Federal Government gutted its summer-jobs program about a decade ago. But the Obama Administration is changing all that, having directed $1.2 billion to pay for summer jobs for youths. Every state is now flush with stimulus dollars - ranging from about $3 million (in Wyoming...
...Falls, Wis., was able to secure her first "real job" through a workforce development program in the northwestern part of the state. At $7.25 an hour, 20 hours a week, Hilgart hopes that by working at the local chamber of commerce she can - surprise - save enough money for a car. "I like the new Pontiac G6s. They're amazing," she says. Apparently Hilgart has not heard that Pontiac is going out of business. Lesson to the feds: you can help kids earn some cash, but you can't expect them all to spend it wisely...
Weeks of heavy fighting in Somalia took an even deadlier turn on Thursday when a suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into the front of a hotel in the west of the country, killing Somalia's National Security Minister, a former ambassador and at least 20 others. Somalia's extremist Islamist militia, al-Shabaab, said it carried out the attack...
...attack happened when a man steered a small car toward the gate of the Medina Hotel in Beledweyne, near the border with Ethiopia. The car veered into parked cars and exploded. National Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden and former Somali ambassador to Ethiopia Abdul Karim Farah Laqanyo were among those who died. "It was an act of terrorism, and it is part of the terrorist attack on our people," Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed told journalists in the capital, Mogadishu. "Al-Qaeda is attacking us." (See pictures of 9/11...