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Glendale to buy youth sports complex near stadium

The Glendale City Council has voted to purchase the remainder of its lease on a sports complex near the University of Phoenix Stadium.

Wizards chief says move to Kansas in the works

Kansas City Wizards president Robb Heineman is telling supporters the team will be moving to Kansas.

Kansas revises Cerner, Wizards incentive package

Officials with medical software maker Cerner Corp. declined to comment Wednesday on a revised $230 million incentive package offered by Kansas to lure the company across the state line.

Kan. gov. says critics too generous on job deal

Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson is suggesting that critics who think his administration isn't trying hard enough to lure thousands of jobs away from Missouri are pushing him to be fiscally irresponsible.

`Shadow Complex' a triumph of classic game design

What's a gamer to do in the summer, when so few high-profile retail titles are released? I look for new challenges to download — and most of those are going onto my Xbox 360. It remains the essential machine for gamers who don't want to leave home.

Ohio coroner: Head and arms found in man's freezer

An Ohio coroner says the head and arms of a woman were found in the freezer of the man charged with killing her.

Nuclear Weapons complex changes approved

The Energy Department gave final approval Tuesday to a program to limit the most dangerous nuclear material to five sites, improving safety and security, and consolidating management of the country's nuclear weapons.

Nuclear Weapons complex changes advance

The Energy Department moved ahead Thursday on further restricting the nation's most dangerous nuclear material, part of a plan to scale back and modernize management of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.

Fire Controlled at White House Compound

Thick black smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday in Vice President Dick Cheney's suite of offices in the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.

Fire Burns on White House Grounds

Thick black smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday on the White House compound in the Executive Office Building.

Fire Burns on White House Grounds

Thick black smoke billowed from windows of the Executive Office Building on the White House compound on Wednesday.

Fire Burns on White House Grounds

A fire is burning at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House grounds.

The Words of Wind

Blowing in the Wind "How many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see." Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind" Can you hear Dylan's voice whispering in the wind? Do you dare to listen? Are you afraid? Of what?

Rectitude Chic: The first Christmas in the age of restraint.
Source: Wall Street Journal

Is this the last Christmas of the old era, or the first Christmas of the new? Will people spend in a way that responds to what's around them (Nothing seems changed!) or to what they know is coming (Did you see this week's jobless numbers? Highest in 26 years!)? Will they go for s …

Pete Carroll and Britney Spears, united at last
Source: The L.A. Times

Excerpt: L.A. Live, the new mega-complex in downtown, held its first Christmas tree lighting on Thursday night. Pete Carroll helped do the honors, joined by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Councilwoman Jan Perry, comedian Adam Carolla and ...Britney Spears.

There Might Be a Financial Crisis, But the World's Arms Dealers Are Doing Just Fine
Source: AlterNet.org

"Our program," Jeanne Farmer of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency continued, "is growing by leaps and bounds," describing how her agency is dealing with more than 12,000 open cases (in some instances the weapons have been transferred, but not all options have been exercised …

Companies of the Military Industrial Complex
Source: militaryindustrialcomplex.com

This is a listing of the companies involved in the military industrial complex. You have to see the list to believe it.

YouTube - President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Military Industrial Complex
Source: YouTube

This is part of the actual address by President Eisenhower on January 17, 1961, warning about the then new development of the military industrial complex and the threat of allowing the blending of the military, private corporations and the government into a union which would thre …

The Real Matrix: The Pentagon Invades Your Life
Source: nickturse.com

Rick is a midlevel manager in a financial services company in New York City. Each day he commutes from Weehawken, New Jersey, a suburb only a stone's throw from the Big Apple, where he lives with his wife, Donna, and his teenage son, Steven.

Students Protest Defense Contractors at Career Fair
Source: Common Dreams

"I feel that by refusing to un-invite Raytheon, the BC administration is condoning the company's policies, which to me is clearly contradictory to the Jesuit philosophy of this institution," said Tim Dingman, a member of the GJP and A&S; '11.

Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for McKinney's Green Party Bid
Source: Pasi

Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for McKinney's Green Party Bid by Davey D (www.daveyd.com)

Evolved Synapses
Source: The New York Times

A whole new dimension of evolutionary complexity has now emerged from a cross-species study led by Dr. Seth Grant at the Sanger Institute in England.

Soccer Trophy Wife Showdown: Manchester United V. Chelsea
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We are unabashed lovers of the beautiful game of soccer, for many reasons that wouldlike the sportprobably bore the living @!$%#out of you. Luckily for our readers, we also love low-hanging fruit. So to make todays Champions League final (Manchester United v.

Orwell Meets Vanunu and the Industrial Military Media Security/Surveillance Complex -- Signs of the Times News
Source: SOTT.NET

Mordechai Vanunu. Every email Vanunu has ever written, snail mail received, phone call conversation and walk he has ever taken through east Jerusalem, has potentially been monitored 24/7, since his release from an Israeli prison in 2004.

The Law of Unintended Consequences
Source: marginalrevolution.com

Dubner and Levitt have an article in the NYTimes with three examples of the law of unintended consequences, the Americans with Disabilities Act made it more costly to hire people with disabilities and reduced their employment, ancient Jewish sabbatical law intended to help the po …

2 cops killed in 'ambush' in Georgia
Source: Yahoo! News

Two off-duty DeKalb County police officers were killed early Wednesday in what appeared to be an ambush at an apartment complex in what residents described as a high-crime neighborhood, police said.

5280 Magazine -- Out in the Cold
Source: 5280.com

They are America's Cold War veterans, who forged weapons from a fearsome energy source and bravely endured years of radiation for a country that pledged to take care of them. Instead, government loopholes and evasions are making sure those promises are never kept.

Why We Worry About The Weather
Source: Live Science

More than TV or the web, however, scientists are to blame for our modern-day obsession with weather. They're always putting more numbers and labels on the phenomena and trying to make it more and more simple for us regular folks, but in reality they make it more complex.

Large Memphis Apartment Complex | RealEstateZoo.Com
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Large Memphis apartment complex of over 300 units. High occupancy rate. High cap rate. Well maintained. Priced under $25,000 a unit.

NYC fears a middle-class squeeze - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com
Source: msnbc.com

NEW YORK - Merryl-Beth Mehlman should have been priced out of Manhattan years ago. The daughter of an insurance salesman and now a stay-at-home mom, she belongs to the ever-shrinking middle class in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

What Makes Us Different? (4-page TIME Magazine article)
Source: TIME

A four-page article from TIME Magazine: "You don't have to be a biologist or an anthropologist to see how closely the great apes - gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans - resemble us.

'Bush speak' a sophisticated 'deception'
Source: United Press International

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., May 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush has waged a verbal "operation of deception" that shows an impressive use of language, two University of Illinois authors say.