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...something different, but no matter what it is called Dolores Huerta has always represented a community of hardworking people. In her ongoing fight to improve living conditions and treatment for laborers, Huerta represents the family who spent days in the fields under the scorching sun with no place to use the restroom or drink clean water. She represents the mother who labored tirelessly to send her children to school and the child who saw the pain and suffering of the family. She represents the generations who fought hard so that one day their children and children’s children...
...Senator John McCain and Maine Senator Susan Collins for any word on the state of negotiations for the Senate stimulus package. "We're not quite at the point where I can cover 535 characters in 140 characters, but the best Twitterers in Congress are the ones who don't use it as yet another venue for tired talking points but give us a first-person look behind the scenes," says Olivier Knox, a reporter for Agence France-Presse covering Congress who has written stories after being tipped off by Representatives' Tweets...
...direct, in fact, that until recently, Representatives weren't even allowed to use sites like Twitter. But last summer, Representative John Culberson, a Texas Republican who not only posts Tweets but video-blogs on Twitter, helped organize a petition to allow members broader access to social-networking sites. Culberson cornered Michael Capuano, chairman of the House Franking Commission (officially the Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards) in a corridor with a video-enabled cell phone to ask him about opening up the rules. Such moves led to a protest website, letourcongresstweet.org, and Twitter's first petition. The rules were relaxed...
...leather. The purple-themed Skybar has a slinky after-dark appeal (try the Aviator Sling: gin, parfait amour, cranberry and lime juice), while the Brasserie is all cream-leather seating and walnut finishes. It's here that chef Allan Pickett (formerly at Galvin Bistrot de Luxe in London) makes use of local produce to create a tempting take-off menu: the piquant steak tartare is already proving a runaway success. And on the walls, black-and-white photos of Hollywood stars getting on or disembarking from airplanes add a touch of nostalgic air-travel glamour. As airport hotels go, Aviator...
...report, the Council of Europe also criticized the fact that the Czechs often use the punishment on first-time, nonviolent offenders, like exhibitionists. Another issue: the Czech penal system effectively forces many prisoners into accepting the procedure out of fear they will be jailed for life if they do not, according to the council. "Given the context in which the intervention is offered, it is questionable whether consent to the option of surgical castration will always be truly free and informed," it said. Investigators found five cases of it being performed on legally incapacitated offenders who were not capable...