AP via Yahoo News: June 22, 2009:
Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that’s what they want to do.
May 27, 2007 – London Telegraph: Bush sanctions ‘black ops’ against Iran
Obama also blasted allegations of some in the Iranian government that the United States is “instigating protests” as “patently false and absurd.”
A buck-a-day — that’s the incentive being offered to young girls to keep them from getting pregnant, WXII-TV reported.
The group College-Bound Sisters was founded at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro by Hazel Brown, a maternity nurse who thought too many teens were having babies.
Brown said she hopes the program, which pays $1 each day to 12-to-18-year-old girls, will keep them from getting pregnant. In addition to remaining pregnancy-free, the girls must also attend weekly meetings.
The program is funded by a four-year grant from the state.
Twenty-eight girls and women died in 2008 soon after taking Gardasil, a vaccine meant to prevent human papillomavirus infections and fight cervical cancer, according to a group that analyzed FDA records.
Judicial Watch press release – June 22, 2009
As Maine’s strawberry season gets underway, growers are voicing concerns about the effects recent wet weather will have on their crop.
Jodie Jordan from Alewives Brook Farm in Cape Elizabeth said too much rain makes the berries mushy and susceptible to mold.
Birds have also been a problem for Jordan. He said the cedar waxwings have been tearing up his field, and there is nothing he can do about it because the birds are federally protected.
Times of London – June 23, 2009:
Students are planning a mass demonstration outside the British Embassy in Tehran today, warning that it could trigger a repeat of 1979, when students stormed the US Embassy and held 52 diplomats hostage for 444 days.
Seems to me that western media is trying to turn Tehran into Tiananmen Square while most Iranians would seem to prefer avoiding a repeat of the 1953 overthrow of Mossadeq and subsequent installation of the Shah.
President Obama today met with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who told Mr. Obama he is “an idol” in her country. In a bit of evidence supporting that assertion, members of the Chilean press asked the president for a group photo, a request the president granted. (That picture is at left.)
The event was not simply a love fest: Asked by a reporter if he wanted to apologize for CIA involvement in Chilean elections, Mr. Obama did not do so.
