'Millionaire's Tax' Could Fund NYC Mass Transit Posted: 2 years ago by deEPCHill
Under the plan, people who earn over $1 million in New York state will pay an income tax surcharge of about 3/4 of 1 percent for five years. In all, it would raise over $5 billion for mass transit.
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Will New York Kill The Golden Goose? Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames
A mere 41k residents of New York City make up nearly half of the income tax revenue received by the city. A little over 19k makes up 40% of the revenue. Changing the city's tax code to soak the rich even more may result in some of those leaving, ending in lower tax revenue over all.
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Military sonar blamed for mass dolphin strandings Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
Mass strandings of dolphins and whales could be caused because the animals are rendered temporarily deaf by military sonar, experiments have shown.
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Dinosaur mass grave discovered in Switzerland Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
An amateur paleontologist in Switzerland may have unearthed Europe's largest dinosaur mass grave after he dug up the remains of two Plateosaurus.
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11 Weirdest Real-Life Cases of Mass Hysteria Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
If you’re an avid movie watcher, you’ve probably come across some pretty weird urban legends and myths. What’s amazing is that oftentimes real-life occurrences of mass hysteria, spurred on by mass psychogenic illness or collective obsessional behavior are much more bizarre and scary than fictional myths.
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Coronal Mass Ejections And A 3-D View Of A Solar Storm Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with a view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. This new capability will dramatically enhance scientists' ability to predict if and how these solar tsunamis could affect Earth.
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Priest Drops Silent Bombshell During Mass Posted: 4 months ago by Doggylives
No, not like that!
As his congregation of deaf Roman Catholics prepared to head home after Mass, the priest indicated that he had something to tell.
Then, using sign language, Father Peter McDonough dropped his bombshell
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Giant Tsunami hit New York... 2,300 years ago Posted: 7 months ago by Ankabout
A huge wave crashed into the New York City region 2,300 years ago, dumping sediment and shells across Long Island and New Jersey and casting wood debris far up the Hudson River.
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Mass graves uncovered in Colombia Posted: 3 years ago by KingKoopa
Colombian authorities have uncovered the mass graves of more than 100 people believed to have been killed during the country's long-running civil conflict.
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Saddam trial told of mass grave find Posted: 3 years ago by teaya21
A US forensics expert took the stand in Saddam Hussein's trial for genocide against ethnic Kurds to tell in grim detail how he unearthed the remains of 27 people from a mass grave in northern Iraq.
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Pope considers return to Latin mass Posted: 3 years ago by kxmk
Latin mass says, "Bring it on!"
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Map of New York City parking tickets Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
New York City agencies issued 9,955,441 parking tickets from July 2007 to June 2008. Here is an interactive map of them.
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Mass extinctions caused by global warming? Posted: 3 years ago by Fanatic
An asteroid impact may have caused one mass extinction in the past, but this article argues that relatively sudden releases of hydrogen sulfide gas from the world's oceans may have caused others. H2S is thought to be released as a consequence of high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. Guess what's happening now?
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Saddam Faked Having WMD To Prevent Iran From Invading Iraq Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Saddam Hussein initially didn't think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen.
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New York switches from real to fake grass Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
New York plans to spend about $150 million installing 100 synthetic playing fields in parks across the city over the next five years.
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Bosnian in legal debate over cow falling in mass grave Posted: 3 years ago by kxmk
Got milk?
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Scientists Announce Mass Participation Experiment To Cheer-up The UK Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
“Obviously, we are in the midst of a recession and it is vital that people keep their spirits high. This study will help identify the most effective way of putting a smile on people’s faces.”
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Priest uncovering beginnings of Final Solution Posted: 10 months ago by 2manyusernames
When we think of the Holocaust we have horrible scenes of concentration camps burned in our psyche. Less known is the early days of the Nazi's "Final Solution" where the entire Jewish population of towns would be shot and killed and buried in unmarked mass graves.
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A big chunk of the universe is missing - again Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Not only has a large chunk of the universe thought to have been found in 2002 apparently gone missing again but it is taking some friends with it. The new calculations might leave the mass of the universe as much as ten to 20 percent lighter than previously calculated.
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Looking Back: Dancing plagues and mass hysteria Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
The year was 1374. In dozens of medieval towns scattered along the valley of the River Rhine hundreds of people were seized by an agonising compulsion to dance. Scarcely pausing to rest or eat, they danced for hours or even days in succession.
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Overweight women have more sex Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Ninety-two percent of overweight women reported having a history of sexual intercourse with a man, as opposed to 87 percent of women with a normal body mass index.
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