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Mariah Hilgart is happy, however, just to have a job right now. Although she has spent some time working with her mother at a tanning salon, the 15-year-old in Park 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...
...millions of my fellow compatriots - both inside and outside Iran - it is the memory of 1979 that most keenly informs our perception of what's taking place in our home country. The similarities between today's protests and the events of 1979 suggest that this election represents a real turning point in Iranian history...
...days just under the "blue sky" cutoff has decreased in Beijing. Whether that's a sign that the numbers are more accurate, or merely better gamed, is still unclear. The city's hot, humid summers and occasional sandstorms mean that air quality can turn bad with surprising speed. Without real-time reporting, the official data are more a matter of historical interest. This afternoon the Ministry of Environmental Protection reported the air pollution index for the 24 hours ending at noon on Friday was 159, or "slightly polluted." That's still pretty bad. But had you gone outside you might...
...prominent investigative reporter in Northern Ireland, Suzanne Breen received the phone call from the Real IRA claiming responsibility for the murder of two British soldiers at Massereene army barracks in March - an attack that stunned Northern Ireland and stoked fears of a return to the sectarian conflict of the past. Two days later, a policeman was killed in Craigavon, County Armagh - the first police officer to be shot dead in the province in 12 years. And a series of low-level disturbances in April - petrol bombs, hoax devices, car-jackings - showed that dissident republicans, although small in number, remained intent...
...Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are under increasing pressure to clamp down on terrorist splinter groups such as the Real IRA. But so far, only one person has been charged with the murders at Massereene barracks. Just over a month after Breen's article describing the call she received from the Real IRA appeared in the Dublin-based Sunday Tribune, of which she is Northern Editor, Breen received a letter from the PSNI, requesting she hand over notes, photographs, her cell phone and other records relating to the attack, in order to advance their investigation. Breen refused...