'Millionaire's Tax' Could Fund NYC Mass Transit Posted: 6 months 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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Dinosaur mass grave discovered in Switzerland Posted: 1 year 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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Saddam trial told of mass grave find Posted: 2 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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Mass graves uncovered in Colombia Posted: 1 year 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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Mass extinctions caused by global warming? Posted: 2 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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Pope considers return to Latin mass Posted: 1 year ago by kxmk
Latin mass says, "Bring it on!"
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New York switches from real to fake grass Posted: 1 year 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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A big chunk of the universe is missing - again Posted: 11 months 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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The Milky Way Is Weighed Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Previous estimates had ranged from 750 billion solar masses to up to 2 trillion. Lately, researchers have been leaning toward the higher figure. But now astronomers have used a more refined method to conclude that our galaxy's mass is slightly less than 1 trillion solar masses.
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Saddam Faked Having WMD To Prevent Iran From Invading Iraq Posted: 9 months 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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Bosnian in legal debate over cow falling in mass grave Posted: 1 year ago by kxmk
Got milk?
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Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why Posted: 7 months ago by 2manyusernames
In what is one of the worst calamities to hit bat populations in the United States, on average 90 percent of the hibernating bats in four caves and mines in New York have died since last winter.
Wildlife biologists fear a significant die-off in about 15 caves and mines in New York, as well as at sites in Massachusetts and Vermont.
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It is cheaper for a Londoner to fly to New York to purchase Adobe's CS4 Posted: 2 weeks ago by BernardBlack
Adobe's insane pricing policy means that it would be cheaper to fly from London to New York, grab a copy of the software, spend the night in a hotel, and fly back to London the next day!
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New York Subway Vent Animals Posted: 6 months ago by pocksucket
Vents in New York sidewalks blow gusts of air up to street level each time a subway train goes past. So if you attached an inflatable animal to the vent it would stand up with each gust. Watch it - it will make sense.
Part 2, which is more involved, in the comments.
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World Body Mass Index Posted: 2 years ago by BrownTrout
...percentages of "fat people" by national populations. Guess who's #1?
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Welcome to New York; That'll Be $8 Posted: 1 year ago by super
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to solve the city's growing traffic problem by charging a fee for every car entering the city. His plan would charge cars $8, and trucks $21, to drive into Manhattan south of 86th Street.
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Young, Black and Republican in New York, Blogging Against the Tide Posted: 3 days ago by JoshSF49
At one demonstration in New York in 2004, he recalled, an antiwar protester, who was white, used a racial slur against him, and black demonstrators with the protester kept silent.
Mr. Ivory said he was incensed that blacks would ignore such a slur because it was aimed at someone with opposing political views.
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Booming voice (not God's) interrupts Mass Posted: 2 years ago by gnikgnok
Teenagers find unmanned microphone linked to church's sound system.
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Rumor: Mass Walkout At Gamespot? Posted: 10 months ago by punthe
Unless cooler heads prevail or concerns are addressed, Gamespot could see "mass resignations".
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They had sex WHERE? Posted: 4 months ago by bevissimo
ROME - An Italian couple who were caught having sex in a church confessional box while morning Mass was being said have repented and made peace with the local bishop.
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Biggest Hockey Mass Fight Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames
Game is in Kazan at the Tatneft-Arena. Ak Bars vs. Traktor of the Russian Superleague on Jan 08, 2008
378 penalty minutes were given out on the play
More can be found here
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