Feb 07, 2009 -
Police: Man arrived at jail drunk
IOWA CITY, Iowa - An Iowa man arriving at a jail to serve
his sentence in a public intoxication case was hit with
a new, similar charge because he showed up drunk, police
said. The Johnson County Sheriff's Office said jail
officials smelled alcohol on Johnathan David Gunn, 19,
when he arrived at the facility Tuesday to begin his
3-day jail sentence for a Dec. 3 second-offense public
intoxication conviction, the Iowa City (Iowa) Press-Citizen
reported.
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Dec 26, 2006 -
Never posted here, but I had to share the BEST stocking stuffer that I've ever gotten....
I got the Anastasia All About Brows Kit from Sephora (in Medium Ash) in my stocking and I LOVE it. It's the absolute best product I've ever found for shaping and filling in my eyebrows.
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Nov 21, 2009 -
Autism is a disorder of neural development that is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism involves many parts of the brain; how this occurs is not well understood.
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Nov 21, 2009 -
In psychology, adjustment disorder (AD) is a classification of mental disorder that is a psychological response from an identifiable stressor or group of stressors that causes significant emotional or behavioral symptoms that does not meet criteria for more specific disorders. The condition is different from anxiety disorder which lacks the presence of a stressor, or post-traumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder which usually are associated with a more intense stressor. Adjustment Disorders may also be acute or chronic, depending on whether it lasts more or less than six months.
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Jan 29, 2008 -
Sam Lutfi called Harvey Levin a few minutes ago, Britney by his side,
and railed about the story we posted that Brit's family believes Lutfi
is poison.
Lutfi said there was no intervention last night, but then said
Britney's family "barged in." For the record, the family is staging an
intervention and Lutfi has been kept in the dark.
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Jan 18, 2008 -
Britney Spears will host a Scandinavian Style Mansion party at a private residence in Beverly Hills on February 16th, PEOPLE reports.
“Britney has said ‘yes,’ to hosting it,” says Claus Hjelmbak, the Danish businessman who founded the event. “I am beyond excited because the experience she gave everyone in December was amazing.
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Nov 13, 2009 -
Analyzing Major Nidal Hassan
Melik Kaylan,
Man under excess stress or a murderous jihadi?
Some commentators place Major Nidal Hassan's outrage at Fort Hood in the continuum of nonreligious psychotic mass killings like those at Columbine and Virginia Tech. Others liken it to Islamist terror outrages such as suicide and car bombings.
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Nov 11, 2009 -
Twenty Years After the Fall
By George Friedman
We are now at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe. We are also nearing the 18th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union itself. This is more than simply a moment for reflection — it is a moment to consider the current state of the region and of Russia versus that whose passing we are now commemorating.
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Nov 05, 2009 -
Analysis: Where was the downtown rally? Obama’s Madison visit a hallmark of his mild presidency
By JOHN NICHOLS
Analysis: Where was the downtown rally? Obama's Madison visit a hallmark of his mild presidencyOne year ago Tuesday, Barack Obama redefined American electioneering to such an extent that it was possible to believe that the success of his transformational campaign would lead to a transformational presidency.
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Oct 30, 2009 -
Long, but worth the effort (I think)
By Scott Ritter
There is a curious phenomenon taking place in the American media at the moment: the lionization of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the American military commander in Afghanistan. Although he has taken a few lumps for playing politics with the White House, McChrystal has generally been sold to the American public as a “Zen warrior,” a counterinsurgency genius who, if simply left to his own devices, will be able to radically transform the ongoing debacle that is Afghanistan into a noble victory that will rank as one of the greatest political and military triumphs of modern history.
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