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Too Much Coffee : S.A. Couple Branded As Bad Tenants Because Of Tattoos |
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| Topic: Society |
3:23 pm EDT, Sep 26, 2007 |
Last night on NEWS 4 WOAI AT TEN, I did a story about a San Antonio couple that was not allowed to rent an apartment because the complex has a policy banning tattoos, and the husband has several of them on his arms.
Equal opportunity... EXCEPT FOR YOU!!! Too Much Coffee : S.A. Couple Branded As Bad Tenants Because Of Tattoos |
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1:50 pm EDT, Sep 6, 2007 |
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday fired a veteran worker whose movements were tracked for five months through the GPS device in his cellphone, leading to charges that he was repeatedly cutting out early.
Tracking Cellphones |
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Torontoist: Bon Cop, Bad Cop |
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11:06 am EDT, Aug 23, 2007 |
For a minute or so, it's just Coles being a good samaritan, trying to stop a potentially violent confrontation and demanding that one of the men who picks up a rock put it down. It's already extremely tense by the time that someone starts pointing at the masked protestors and chanting "policier!" Coles demands that the men take off their masks, and the majority of the crowd join him––some even reach for the bandannas themselves––and accuse the masked men of being cops, police provocateurs hired to start a riot. When Coles actually looks at one of the men dead-on and says, "you're a police officer," the masked men all freeze, seemingly dumb-struck. And then they kind of start being aggressive again, until a little over two minutes in, when there's the weirdest police takedown you'll probably ever see.
Interesting video Torontoist: Bon Cop, Bad Cop |
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Back-to-school shopping? Don't forget the bulletproof backpacks - Engadget |
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| Topic: Society |
12:19 pm EDT, Aug 20, 2007 |
Sending your kid off to school these days isn't what it used to be -- at least that's what one company called MJ Safety Solutions would have you believe -- because they're selling a bulletproof backpack. That's right, two worried parents in Boston have created "My Child's Pack," a $175 bulletproof book-bag that will stop an assortment of bullets (including hollow-point 9mm) dead in their tracks.
Back-to-school shopping? Don't forget the bulletproof backpacks - Engadget |
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'Lunar Ark' Proposed in Case of Deadly Impact on Earth |
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| Topic: Society |
12:16 pm EDT, Aug 20, 2007 |
The moon should be developed as a sanctuary for civilization in case of a cataclysmic cosmic impact, according to an international team of experts.
'Lunar Ark' Proposed in Case of Deadly Impact on Earth |
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Couple tries to name baby 'at' symbol - Yahoo! News |
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1:21 pm EDT, Aug 16, 2007 |
BEIJING - A Chinese couple seeking a distinctive and modern name for their child chose the commonly used Internet 'at' symbol, much to the consternation of Chinese officials.
ADVERTISEMENT The unidentified couple and the attempted naming were cited Thursday by a Chinese government official as an example of bizarre names creeping into the Chinese language.
@??? Couple tries to name baby 'at' symbol - Yahoo! News |
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Website Offers to Ruin People's Lives for $20 a Month |
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| Topic: Society |
1:32 pm EDT, Aug 14, 2007 |
A service offering a complete "revenge package" in which people can destroy the financial status and relationships of their enemies at the click of a mouse is being offered over the Internet. For as little as $20 a month, customers of the confidentialaccess.com Web site can make the credit ratings of people they dislike plummet, and even have them suspected of fraud. Victims' bank accounts can be shut down remotely and all their essential utilities cut off.
Website Offers to Ruin People's Lives for $20 a Month |
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