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...After falling behind, Clark made two immediate changes that helped turn the game around: bringing on Mitchell and sophomore Jaren LaGreca, and moving Prozeller up to midfield...
...Though technology appears to lie at the cause of the problem, we cannot turn to technology as a solution. As mobile technology continues to improve, texting will likely be superseded by some distraction we have yet to discover. If we try to prevent texting accidents with electronic blocks, it could mean the start of an arms race we are unlikely...
...partisans finding much to object to in sentiments such as, "No matter what you want to do with your life - I guarantee that you'll need an education to do it." Much of the speech hews to Obama's campaign-trail exhortations to children to put down video games, turn off the television and pick up the schoolbooks. Obama will specifically ask kids to fulfill their responsibilities and give shout-outs to the founders of Facebook and Twitter as young people achieving great things. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...Support in Turkey for membership fell from over 70% in 2004 to 42% by the end of last year. The sense of being excluded has further demoralized Turkish reformers, the report says, leading to "a regrettable slowdown in the reform process" that is a condition of membership. This, in turn, feeds skeptics in European countries who point to the lack of reforms as proof that Turkey is unworthy of joining the E.U. It's a vicious circle that jeopardizes Turkish domestic reforms and hurts the E.U.'s own interests in the region...
...within the exploding slavery industry, which according to Kara generated $152.3 billion in revenues in 2007, trafficked sex workers are by far the most profitable of slaves - although they constitute only 4.2% of the world's slave population, trafficked sex workers contribute 39.1% of slaveholders' profits. Destination countries often turn a blind eye to sex tourism because of these enormous revenues. The International Labor Organization estimates that sex tourism contributes 2% to 14% of the gross domestic product of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand...