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Does Twitter give us too much insight into a person? -Roberta Teer, Commack, N.Y. If you're tweeting away all day long about mundane things, yes. Ninety percent of what I post on Twitter is not about me at all. For the most part, I'm sharing other people's information. The stuff that I do share are things like when my dog got skunked. I actually just needed to know what to use to get the skunk smell off of the dog. I probably could've Googled it, but I thought it'd be more fun to share...
...State Commission on Judicial Conduct with "willful and persistent" failure to follow the CCA's protocols for last-minute appeals and for bringing public discredit on the court. Opponents say her actions displayed a dogmatic affinity for the death penalty. But her supporters, some of whom do not share her conservative views, contend that she was following the rules and was not responsible for the shortcomings of defense attorneys. They also point to Keller's work doubling the number of public defenders' offices in Texas and boosting their budget from $19 million to $60 million. (Read about the debate over...
TANF typically provides cash assistance to families with no jobs. But as the recession has worsened, several states have seen a rise in the number of people needing welfare and food stamps. The stimulus fund allows states to do several things with their share of the $5 billion pool as long as they - or private groups like Soros' - pony up 20% of the overall cost; the feds cover the remainder. States can 1) provide more cash payments to families, 2) subsidize additional jobs or 3) set up onetime, nonrepeating benefit programs. New York's Back to School initiative, which used...
...H1N1 vaccine a year: a total that is "woefully inadequate for a world of 6.8 billion people," according to WHO head Margaret Chan. While some companies have donation schemes for the developing world - British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, for example, is donating 50 million doses to WHO - the lion's share will go to wealthy countries, despite the fact that underlying health conditions make populations in the developing world particularly vulnerable...
...food-truck devotee, says the presence of the truck can build a minisociety in minutes. "It's like a flash mob," he says. "When the truck arrives, people start coming out from every direction - and there's a community atmosphere. People meet other people. Everyone is there to share in the experience of that truck." Case adds that in a sprawling city like Los Angeles, where traffic is permanently gridlocked, being mobile means being able to cultivate a broader fan base. "It breaks down the urban fabric," she says. "We are neighborhood-specific in every neighborhood." (See nine kid foods...