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...find exotic things, he need only explore a couple of miles beyond the gas station at the Chadds Ford crossroads. But if he does not first learn his own small world to the last detail, how will he abstract the vibrancy and vitality from it, how will he record the unexpected, the out-of-kilter, the sudden clap of distant thunder? So he has chosen to follow the advice of Poet-Painter William Blake and see a world in a grain of sand...
...helping violent and potentially violent youth. The program, due to its unusual mixture of public and private partners, will be able to hire 25 new street workers through the Ten Point Coalition (A Boston ecumenical group of clergy and other leaders), therefore bypassing Massachusetts’ Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) laws which prohibit Boston from hiring street workers with a criminal background...
...becoming an increasing concern. The report, which was released in June by the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services Program, found that since 1990, the number of bird strikes has quadrupled, from 1,759 in 1990 to a record 7,666 in 2007. Officials cite a number of possible causes for the increase...
...Holder sticks to those lines, he should be able to walk nimbly between his inquisitors when it comes to the handling of DOJ's recent past and immediate future. But inevitably, once politics are out of the way, the Senate will turn to Holder's record, which is a good deal more complicated than his rhetoric...
...assault on Televisa's offices was the latest in a series of attacks on Mexico's media as the nation writhes in an orgy of drug-related bloodshed. Out of a record 5,300 deaths from beheadings, assassinations and massacres last year, eight of them were murdered Mexican journalists, making Mexico the most dangerous country for their trade in the hemisphere. Furthermore, many reporters in cities on the front lines of the drug war say they are systematically threatened, beaten and offered bribes because of their coverage of organized crime. (See pictures of the war on crime in Mexico City...