"In one study cited by Mr. Kassel, soot in one stretch of Midtown Manhattan was found to contain 52 percent diesel exhaust, mostly from trucks, buses and construction vehicles. The other 48 percent was a mix of everything from ground-up car tires to sea salt, he said."
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"The death has local gay activists calling for an investigation into whether Provost was slain because of his sexual orientation. “We're definitely monitoring this, and trust and hope the military will investigate this in the professional way it should,” said Nicole Murray-Ramirez, chairman of San Diego's Human Rights Commission. Murray-Ramirez said he had asked two San Diego members of Congress, Reps. Susan Davis and Bob Filner, to make official inquiries with the military. Provost's partner, Kaether Cordero, said Provost was openly gay but kept his private life quiet for the most part. “People who he was friends with, I knew that they knew,” Cordero said from Houston. “He didn't care that they knew. He trusted them.”"
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I was down in SD on Thursday and saw this on the news. The gay press is also reporting it. It's so, so sad. Bob Filner is a fairly good guy, from what I remember and if he's involved, it's likely that something might come of it. Have there been any suspects?
- Derrick
!@elonjames, did you know "yeah son! i will beat a mother f*cker's ass if he steps to me!" actually does fit? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
"The pace of job losses quickened in June after slowing just a month earlier, casting a shadow over the Obama administration’s attempts to stanch months of declines in the labor market. The American economy shed 467,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent, the Labor Department reported on Thursday. Job losses were widespread among the construction, manufacturing, and business and professional services sectors. The losses were sharply higher than economists’ expectations of 365,000 lost jobs."
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""She didn't feel a thing. She found herself in water," Paris-based Kassim Bakari told French radio RTL after speaking to his 13-year-old daughter Bahia who was recovering Wednesday in hospital in Moroni."
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me too chris. by "sysadmin" i really mean "googling until i find something that might work and trying it."
- tiffany
yeah i figured... i'm that way too most of the time with the *nix stuff... or i 'phone-a-friend'
- Chris Heath
I think there should be some kind of sword flourish that goes along with that. Or at least a pen flourish, maybe with glitter. That might just be at my desk.
- Jennifer Dittrich