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Seven secessionist candidates declared for seats in the state senate. Among them is Robert Wagner, 46, an economist who is also a computing consultant with Oracle Inc. Wagner, who homesteads with his wife and six-year-old son in the Green Mountains, says that current U.S. law enables multinational corporations to abuse Vermont as a "resource colony." Citing a 2008 study by the University of Vermont, Wagner says the state stands to gain over $1 billion a year in revenue by taxing equitably the corporate behemoths that exploit Vermont's "commons," which includes everything from the state's groundwater, surface...
...organized political power play rather than some paroxysm of tribal rage. But now, like many others who testified alongside him, Victor (not his real name) gets text messages threatening him with death. He can't find work, other Kalenjin shun him, and strange men attacked his eight-year-old son as the boy walked back from school a few days...
...Someone ran over my son with a bicycle. He was lucky to run away," Victor told TIME this week. "The man told him, 'You are lucky this time around, but maybe next time around you will not be so lucky...
...interest of the children involved in the 1998 study. It criticized Wakefield for carrying out invasive tests, such as colonoscopies and spinal taps, without due regard for how the children involved might be affected. It also cited Wakefield's method of gathering blood samples - he paid children at his son's birthday party $8 to give blood - and said that Wakefield displayed a "callous disregard for the distress and pain the children might suffer...
Wittman, the son of former NBA player and head coach Randy Wittman, is second in the conference in points per game with 18.2, and, as of Thursday, ranked 12th in the country in three pointers made, with 62. The two players are the heavy frontrunners for Ivy League Player of the Year; Wittman has won Ivy player of the week five times, while Lin has done so three times...