Trey Watson
February 8, 2010
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Eighteen year old Trey Watson was senior at Lincoln High School, who tragically passed away on Saturday night of January 23, 2010. According to the Florida Highway Patrol the two car crash occurred on Interstate 10 near Olson Road. The car Watson was in collided with a vehicle driven by Michael Wade,... Read more »
Kids’ Guernica Peace Mural Project Visits Tallahassee
February 8, 2010
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The Kids’ Guernica Project is a peace initiative Dr. Tom Anderson of FSU co-created in 1995 to bring awareness in stopping and preventing war. Dr. Anderson’s idea was to initiate a program that would commemorate the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Using Pablo Picasso’s Guernica,... Read more »
Citrus Fares Badly in Florida Freeze
January 20, 2010
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Student complaints about the cold weather in the winter season are common. However, the students aren’t the only ones with a good reason to be upset. The temperature dropped to 14 degrees the morning of January 11th- beating the 1982 record by a degree. While this is nowhere close to the all-time low... Read more »
Worst Earthquake in 200 Years Strikes Haiti: Over $200 Million Sent in Relief Efforts
January 20, 2010
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The worst earthquake in 200 years, with a magnitude of 7.0, struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti the afternoon of January 12th. Twelve aftershocks, in magnitudes higher than 5.0, followed the initial blow. All types of structures on the Caribbean city collapsed or received extensive damage, including national... Read more »
The Head Turning Comment: Was Senator Reid Wrong For Making A Race Comment?
January 20, 2010
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“Obama was an electable African American owing to his being ‘light-skinned’ and having no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” was the comment made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the book Game Change, as said on CNN . Game Change is a newly released book about the 2008 election. Since... Read more »
Souvenaid: A Possible Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease
January 19, 2010
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Alzheimer’s disease is a slow progressive disease of the brain. It is characterized by the destruction of one’s memory and eventually destroys the brain by disturbances in reasoning, planning, language, and perception. This disease does not normally affect a person until they reach a certain age,... Read more »
Crist Creates Florida Health Care Plan, Promotes as a “National Model”
December 16, 2009
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Florida governor, Charlie Crist, has proposed a Florida healthcare plan as a private-sector alternative to the national model created in Washington DC. Only 3, 757 people in the state have signed up for the service, with almost 4 million uninsured. It has been estimated that about 77,250 Floridians... Read more »
Swine Flu Vaccines Recalled
December 15, 2009
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Atlanta’s swine flu vaccines for children have been recalled Tests indicate that the swine flu vaccine administered to children, ages 6 months to 3 years, in Atlanta has lost strength. Many of the shots have been recalled, as of December 15th. About 800,000 syringes pre-filled with the vaccine... Read more »
Australia Apologizes to British Migrant Children, Britain Yet to Send an Apology
November 23, 2009
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After years of mistreatment against migrant British minors, Australia apologizes for the “lies, deceit, cruelty, and official disinterest, and neglect” of the children (BBC News). Between the years 1930 and 1970, British children were told their parents were dead and they would find a better... Read more »
Stability and Security for All Americans: An Overview of Health Care Reform
November 9, 2009
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From town hall meetings to news broadcasts, the future of our nation’s health care system is one of the most popular topics of discussion. Obama’s plan for health care reform advocates the universal single-payer system, in which the government provides public health insurance to all citizens. The... Read more »
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