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GIVE ME FIVE The redesigned $5 bill sports two new watermarks, a relocated security strip and purple ink--all to thwart counterfeiters...
OOPS The government had not been planning to redesign the $5 bill until crooks--who noticed that the watermark and security strip were very similar to those on the $100--started bleaching Abrahams and reprinting them as Benjamins...
Karen Thurman, Florida Democratic chair, vowing to stick with the decision to move up the state's primary despite DNC threats to strip Florida Democrats of their delegates as a result...
...According to Nunez, the decline of the oligarchy began even before the Sandinista revolution, when the U.S.-backed Somoza dynasty used its dictatorial power to strip the old-money class of its traditional military and political power. In fact, when economic power began to shift in the 1970s to a new bourgeoisie based in the cotton industry, some of the old landowning oligarchy even sided with the rowdy Sandinista rebels, hoping that the overthrow of the dictatorship would allow them to reclaim lost power. But the Sandinistas had other ideas: After seizing power in the insurrection of 1979, they systematically...
...That prospect doesn't concern some V-22 pilots, who believe they'll have the altitude and time to convert the aircraft into its airplane mode and hunt for a landing strip if they lose power. "We can turn it into a plane and glide it down, just like a C-130," Captain Justin (Moon) McKinney, a V-22 pilot, said from his North Carolina base as he got ready to head to Iraq. "I have absolutely no safety concerns with this aircraft, flying it here or in Iraq...