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The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

Aerial surveillance images being used to enforce laws!

RIVERHEAD, New York - August 14, 2010 - On New York's Long Island, it's used to prevent drownings. In Greece, it's a tool to help solve a financial crisis. Municipalities update property assessment rolls and other government data with it. Some in law enforcement use it to supplement reconnaissance of crime suspects.

High-tech eyes in the sky - from satellite imagery to sophist

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U.S. schools adjust calendars to observe Muslim holidays!

NEW YORK - August 13, 2010 - As an increasing number of U.S. public schools adjust their calendars to observe Muslim holidays, a debate is growing over how far schools should go to accommodate minority religious populations - and where they should stop.

Federal and state laws prohibit schools from penalizing students for missing school on religious holidays. In many school systems,

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Biometric vending machines of the future!

BOSTON, Massachusetts - August 11, 2010 - Your thumbprint might soon be the key to an afternoon candy bar. A Massachusetts based vending machine company is joining the growing ranks of companies that are field-testing new technologies.

Next Generation Vending and Food Service is experimenting with biometric vending machines that would allow a user to tie a credit card to his o

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Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors!

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - August 11, 2010 - The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new automobiles in the U.S. since 2008, can be used to track vehicles or feed bad data to the electronic control units (ECU), causing them to malfunction.
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Trooper pinned in car taunted by motorcyclists!

SEATTLE, Washington - August 12, 2010 - A Washington State Patrol trooper was pinned in his car, dazed and bleeding profusely from a neck injury after a rollover accident, but the first people who stopped by the side of the road didn't help.

Instead, two motorcyclists, who were part of a group the trooper had been chasing before he crashed, clapped and laughed at him Tuesday evenin

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Mother calls police to topless sunbather for troubling her boys!

ROME, Italy - August 11, 2010 - A mother of two boys aged 12 and 14 reported a topless bather to police because the way she applied suntan lotion was "troubling" her sons.

The 26-year-old sunbather, identified only as Luisa under Italian privacy laws, was questioned by officers, who have opened an obscenity investigation.

The mother had initially asked the wo

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Monkeys and Congress

Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it.

Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana.

As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all the other monkeys with cold water.

After a while another monkey makes the attempt with the same result; all t