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...says Sylvia Martinez, owner of The Goddess's Treasure Chest, several of the merchants complained to the council that the fairs stole their business during "haunted happenings season." They asked it to shut down unlicensed psychics and draw up guidelines of psychic ethics and quality. ("What are the criteria?" the Salem News reported a baffled councilwoman as asking.) One Salem police officer testified about a scam whereby adepts detected a "dark aura" around a tourist and then charged as much as $5,000 to remove...
...airports. But Sunday's pitched battle between roughly 500 environmental activists and a phalanx of baton-wielding police at London's Heathrow airport wasn't about long lines, delays, lost luggage or missed connections. Instead, the protesters - who had demonstrated outside Heathrow all of last week - were trying to draw travelers' attention to the impact on climate change of the carbon gases emitted by the aircraft in which they fly. A placard from one activist at Heathrow expressed it thus: "You Fly, They...
...doors as teenage settlers on the roof hurled down stones, oil and eggs at the police, while Wagner played over loudspeakers. (As every Israeli knows, Wagner was Hitler's favorite composer, and the music was a brutish way - for the benefit of TV news crews - for the settlers to draw a parallel between Israel's security forces and the Nazis...
...Math Blaster program in the early 1980s. She and her husband sold Davidson & Associates for roughly $1.1 billion in 1996. They have given millions of dollars to universities and tens of thousands to Republican politicians like George W. Bush and Senator John Ensign of Nevada. Gifted kids often draw only flickering interest from government officials, but Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings attended the Davidson Academy's opening...
...past, the NYPD has been criticized for not sharing its intelligence widely, and it could have easily kept this report private and still reached its primary audience of law-enforcement officials. But it chose not to. "The NYPD knew it was going to draw some flak, as anything pertaining to domestic intelligence does and should. But we'd rather have the public debate, as noisy and rude as it may be, than have frightened acquiescence," Jenkins says. "Too much of the message to the American people has been a message of fear, without explanation. In order to really get this...