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The global number of swine flu deaths has jumped by more than 1,000 in a week, latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) show. At least 7,826 people are now known to have died following infection with the H1N1 virus since it first emerged in Mexico in April. Europe saw an 85% increase in the week, with the total number of deaths rising from at least 350 to at least 650. However, in most cases the virus continues to produce mild symptoms. The overwhelming majority of patients usually recover, even without medical treatment, within a week. The biggest rise...

The strongest limit on the number of possible universes is the human ability to distinguish between different universes. (PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past few decades, the idea that our universe could be one of many alternate universes within a giant multiverse has grown from a sci-fi fantasy into a legitimate theoretical possibility. Several theories of physics and astronomy have hypothesized the existence of a multiverse made of many parallel universes. One obvious question that arises, then, is exactly how many of these parallel universes might there be. In a new study, Stanford physicists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin have calculated...

Sixty one percent of the kids at Watsoville High (Watsonville, California) are eligible for free breakfast or lunch provided by the taxpayers but instead head off for the local convenience store or fast food joint. Still it's all our fault that they are fat. Watsonville faces a growing number of overweight children By JONDI GUMZ Posted: 02/08/2009 01:30:41 AM PST WATSONVILLE -- Too often, children in Watsonville are eating food that is not good for them, and it shows. About 31 percent of Watsonville's children are obese by age 8, and another 23 percent are overweight, a study for the...

Remember all the news about "Bush's war," the running death count, and the "milestones" in the number of dead? To point out to the liberals, the error in their ways, we have created THE OBAMA DEATH COUNT. (http://conservativeamerican.org/dems-libs-socialists/obama/the-obama-death-count/) You can find it on the top right of any of our pages. We just want to see if they will scream and chant, "OBAMA LIED! PEOPLE DIED!" After all, didn't he say he would end the war? That's a broken promise. Fox News reports Obama promised in July he would have a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff his first...

Obama’s Residence Linked to PSL Phone Number The phone number associated with the Obama’s mansion is the number for the national Party of Socialism and Liberation.

WBBM Newsradio 780's Bernie Tafoya reporting. CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago Police say no one could make this story up; a would-be-thief gave his victims his phone number. An 18-year-old man entered a muffler shop in the 2600 block of North Laramie Avenue Monday and declared a robbery. He allegedly waved a gun around and demanded money, according to police. When he was told the money was in a safe and that the manager that knew how to open it was not there, the suspect had a brilliant idea; at least he thought it was brilliant. He gave the shop employees...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2007 – The number of explosively formed penetrators, a particularly deadly form of improvised explosive device, is down in Iraq, a top coalition commander said today. However, it is unclear whether Iran has slowed shipments of the deadly weapons into Iraq or not, Army Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said from his headquarters of Multinational Corps Iraq in Baghdad. In October, coalition forces encountered 53 explosively formed projectiles: 30 explosions and 23 found before they exploded. In September, the number was 52, while coalition forces encountered 78 projectiles in August. In July, forces encountered 99 of the...

WASHINGTON, April 9, 2007 – Plans are under way to double the number of provincial reconstruction teams now operating in Iraq by the end of the year, a senior U.S. official said during a news conference in Iraq today. “We will both double the number of PRTs and we will double the number of individuals who are working in the PRTs,” said Rick Olson, chief of the national coordination team in charge of provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq. According to plans, the number of PRTs will increase from 10 to 20, Olson noted, while numbers of PRT personnel will...

Canary Islands fear disaster as number of migrants soars * 6,000 came in August, exceeding whole of 2005* Spain wants EU summit to cut off sea route to Europe Dale Fuchs in Madrid Monday September 4, 2006 The Guardian (UK) A record number of African migrants, almost 1,200 in 36 hours, reached the shores of the Spanish Canary Islands at the weekend, crammed into eight rickety boats that set sail from Mauritania, officials said. Police have intercepted about 20,000 migrants this year. Rescue workers say 550 have drowned en route. In all, 674 arrived on Saturday and 522 yesterday. "This...

RAMADI, Iraq (Army News Service, Aug. 22, 2006) – A record-setting 395 Iraqis answered the call at a recent recruiting drive for Iraqi police in Ramadi. The recruiting drives are jointly hosted by the Iraqi army, Iraqi police, and units of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division. “The tremendous success of the August recruiting drive demonstrates that the people of Ramadi are committed to their own security. We have rounded a corner in creating a stable and secure Ramadi,” said Lt. Col. James Lechner, deputy commander of the 1st AD’s 1st Bde. To join the Iraqi police, recruits must pass...

Our illegal immigration counters are based on an estimated twenty million illegal aliens having been present in our nation as of January 1, 2004. In a letter dated February 2004, no less an authority than Arizona Senator John McCain recognized that Border Patrol apprehension figures demonstrated that "almost four million people crossed our borders illegally 2002" (read McCain's letter) – experts on the subject agree that illegal crossings have only increased since then. The Tucson sector Border Patrol union local 2544 on the number of illegal aliens in our nation: "There are currently 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in...

WASHINGTON - Falling short of requirements under President Bush's education law, about 1,750 U.S. schools have been ordered into radical "restructuring," subject to mass firings, closure, state takeover or other moves aimed at wiping their slates clean. Many are finding resolutions short of such drastic measures. But there is growing concern that the number of schools in serious trouble under the No Child Left Behind law is rising sharply — up 44 percent over the past year alone — and is expected to swell by thousands in the next few years. Schools make the list by falling short in math...

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has grown to as many as 12 million, and they now account for about one in every 20 workers, a new estimate says. Efforts to curb illegal immigration have not slowed the pace, said a report Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. Instead, the report's author said, those efforts are having an unintended consequence: People who illegally enter the United States from Mexico are staying longer because it is harder to move back and forth across the border. "The security has done more to keep people from going back to Mexico...

From the Maha - CLINTON: I think handling the aftermath of a natural disaster is different than preventing a terrorist attack. I actually believe that the federal government has been quite good about that, in spite of the breakdowns that led up to 9/11. There were any number of terrorist attacks prevented in the 1990s and there have been a lot of terrorist cells broken up -- CLINTON: Well, I would repeal the tax cuts for upper income people. I myself have gotten four tax cuts while young Americans have gone off to risk their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan,...

Who is to blame for New Orleans? By William John Hagan Houston Home Journal Print Edition 09/07/2005 David Vitter, a United States Senator from Louisiana, estimates that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina could reach 10,000 people. The reality is that a true death toll will never be known but 10,000 dead may just scratch the surface. Large-scale casualties in a natural disaster such as Katrina in unavoidable but the fact that the world’s most advanced nation had days to prevent such a massive number of deaths makes these numbers even more unacceptable. In the coming weeks politically-motivated accusations of...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate committee will hold hearings on identity theft and information brokers following the revelation that a databank with information on millions of people was accessed by criminals, the committee chairman said Thursday. Democrats, including Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Dianne Feinstein of California and Charles Schumer of New York, have been calling for a Judiciary Committee inquiry into whether more regulation of companies such as ChoicePoint Inc. that buy and sell personal data is needed. "I got a letter from Senator Leahy yesterday on identity theft issue and I immediately said we can hold a hearing,"...

LOS ANGELES - A Nigerian man accused of stealing from data warehouser ChoicePoint Inc. information that could be used in identity theft pleaded no contest Thursday and was sentenced to 16 months in state prison. The case against Olatunji Oluwatosin, 41, was part of a "much larger investigation" into allegations of fraudulent access to the data-gathering company's personal information database, the county district attorney's office said in a statement. ChoicePoint acknowledged this week that thieves apparently used previously stolen identities to create bogus businesses and open 50 accounts with ChoicePoint. The thieves obtained volumes of data on consumers, including names,...

For a second year in a row, the National Rifle Association's Law Enforcement Activities Division (LEAD) trained a record number of public and private Law Enforcement Firearm Instructors from the ranks of federal, state, and municipal police departments, as well as from the military. These instructors are now helping to train law enforcement officers across the United States and in places as distant as Iraq and Afghanistan. "Over 2,000 public and private law enforcement and military instructors received NRA firearms training or attended NRA-organized armorer schools in 2004," said Ron Kirkland, Director of the Law Enforcement Activities Division. "This instructor...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of adult immigrants holding a job has grown by more than 2 million since 2000, while the number of employed native-born Americans fell by nearly a half-million, according to a study released Wednesday by a group that favors stricter immigration controls. The Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, in its analysis of Census Bureau data, also found that occupations with some of the highest unemployment rates among U.S.-born citizens tended to be in job sectors such as construction that had the largest influx of recent immigrants. More recently arrived immigrants may be more willing to travel...

SACRAMENTO - A larger proportion of California voters now believe the country is headed in the wrong direction than at any time since President Bush took office, according to a new statewide poll released Wednesday. Driven by worries over terrorism, the war in Iraq and the economy, 58 percent of Californian believe the country is on the wrong track, according to a new Field Poll. That figure has gradually risen since December 2001 when 68 percent said the nation was headed in the right direction. Meanwhile, Bush continues to receive record low approval ratings in California with 54 percent saying...

Dems Want Overtime Pay Rules Killed Wednesday, April 28, 2004 WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary Elaine Chao told Congress on Wednesday that new overtime regulations would strengthen "protection for more American workers that ever before," but a former federal investigator countered that the rules would subtly undermine eligibility of nursery school teachers, nurses and others. Appearing before a House committee, Chao said the regulations would mean guaranteed overtime protection for 1.3 million salaried workers who earn $455 a week or less. "They are predominantly married with less than a college degree and live in the South," she said. Other workers earning...

If I stand at the end of my street, and you speed past me at 90 miles an hour in your Ford Escort, your watch will tick off seconds slightly more slowly than mine. That, to me, is strange. But, fine, I can absorb general relativity. It's actually quite beautiful, when you think about it. Space and time are in the eye of the beholder. At least Einstein believed that an object in his kitchen could not be affected by what I do to an object in my kitchen. Physics, he believed, was local. Turns out he was wrong. Enter...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - About 12 million American families last year worried that they couldn't afford to buy food, and 32 percent of them actually experienced someone going hungry at one time or another, the Agriculture Department said Friday.</p> <p>It was the third year in a row that the department has seen an increase in the number of households experiencing hunger and those worried about having enough money to pay for food.</p>

Roger Hedgecock opened up talking about the Forest Fires in California. Evidently his radio station is pretty close to it because he said he could smell the smoke. Then he starts talking about the Democratic Presidential Debate last night. He asks whether you would consider having dinner with any of these people? Would you consider letting them work at your Convenience store? He repeats the fact that he wouldn't hire these guys to run a Convenience store. The root of the word progessive is progress, advancing forward, etc. Says these guys aren't progressive. When you have 94% of the people...

I'm currently doing research about cities in America, and I need to know the number of cities that exist and that the United States Government recognizes as a city. I tried searching at Google and census.gov, but neither of them could supply me an answer I'm looking for or any contact information that I can use to call someone "In The Know" who could get me this information. Maybe an online Almanac? I dunno, I should try that too. But Please, if anyone on FreeRepublic has any idea, or can help me in my search, please do! :) Thanks.

<p>Mother Ruby Muhammad had hoped to get her watermelons and summer annuals into her Sacramento County garden before a trip to Chicago. But there hadn't been enough time.</p> <p>And she'd like to write another poem.</p> <p>At 106, Mother Ruby is downright vivacious. She was sad for a friend who confided to her that she was just waiting for the Lord to take her to heaven.</p>

Russian designations of aircraft and missies Russian aircraft designationsFrom rec.aviation.military FAQ by Ross Smith In the 1920s and 1930s, many different designation systems were used for Russian aircraft; the People's Comissariat of Defence had its own system, and each manufacturer had another, usually based on the initials of the designer or organisation (for example, A N Tupolev's ANT-6 was also known as the TB-3). Prefixes used included: A = Autogyro ARK = Arctic coastal reconnaissance B = Bomber BB = Short-range bomber BSh = Armoured attack aircraft (Sh = Shturmovik) DAR = Long-range arctic reconnaissance DB = Long-range bomber...