WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African-American millennials indicated they, or someone they knew, had been victimized by violence or harassment from law enforcement, a new report says….
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Protest against Trump hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ grows
NEW YORK (AP) — Pressure continued to mount on NBC to cancel Donald Trump’s guest-host appearance on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” as a coalition of advocacy groups delivered petitions to the network Wednesday calling for him to be dropped from the show….
NorCal Man’s Headache Was Actually Worm Eggs In His Brain: SFist
Well, here’s nightmare fodder for pretty much ever. Sacramento State senior Luis Ortiz just thought he had an awful headache, but when he sought medical attention, he learned that things were much, much worse. Wormy worse.According to CBS5, the Napa man was rushed to the hospital after the pain in his head worsened. Once he was there, doctors made a gruesome discovery: Ortiz had a tapeworm in his head. It laid eggs. And those eggs caused a cyst that was preventing blood from circulating, which doctors say means he would have died in the next 30 minutes without medical attention.
Source: NorCal Man’s Headache Was Actually Worm Eggs In His Brain: SFist
Afghan woman who set up secret girls’ schools under Taliban awarded prize
Sakeena Yacoobi, who supported underground schools at a time when the Taliban banned education for girls, has been awarded a prize in innovation for education.
UK unveils powers to spy on web use, raising privacy fears
Britain unveils plans for sweeping new surveillance powers, including the right to find out which websites people visit, measures ministers say are vital to keep the country safe but which critics denounce as an assault on freedoms.
Leonard Peltier ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishment’
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CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTby Leonard PeltierAmendment VIII—Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.The Eighth Amendment is supposed to be about dignity, humanity and decency. It is intended to prohibit “deliberate indifference to serious infliction of unnecessary or wanton pain or physical torture or lingering death
Islanders still mourn April 3 massacre – JEJU WEEKLY
Builders work to complete 5 homes for Habitat project (PHOTOS)
Five Greensboro families on Friday will have a place to call home.
More than a dozen homebuilders from across the Triad came together this week — and even some over the weekend — to tackle the Raising Roofs 2015 challenge: five homes, five days.
With rain forecasted for the beginning of the week, work began early last Friday and continued into the weekend to complete framing, insulation and roofing, said Jeanne Johnston, chief development officer for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro.
The…
Obamacare expansion: Chinese Hospital, health plan add hundreds of new doctors to network
Chinese Community Health Plan, a fast-growing subsidiary of Chinatown’s Chinese Hospital, is contracting with hundreds of doctors affiliated with Hill Physicians Medical Group to augment its Covered California network in San Francisco and northern San Mateo County.
The move comes as Chinese Hospital scrambles to settle a legal dispute with its own longtime physician group partner, and plans to open its rebuilt $160 million acute-care facility next spring.
Its San Francisco health insurance plan…
Poems by Ismat, Safdar to vanish from Rajasthan textbooks – The Times of India
JAIPUR: In its ongoing mission to revolutionize school education, the Vasundhara Raje government plans to omit from Hindi text books stories and poems written by noted Urdu writers Ismat Chugtai and Safdar Hashmi and short narratives that revolve around Muslim characters. The move has drawn flak from educationists.
Source: Poems by Ismat, Safdar to vanish from Rajasthan textbooks – The Times of India



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