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Most popular news on 26 July 2009 |
Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest
AP - Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying "in the end, this is not about me at all."
Bill Gates quits Facebook over 'too many friends'
AFP - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend.
In Texas, drought means conserving every last drop
AP - Off-duty police officers are patrolling streets, looking for people illegally watering their lawns and gardens. Residents are encouraged to stealthily rat out water scofflaws on a 24-hour hot line. One Texas lake has dipped so low that stolen cars dumped years ago are peeking up through the waterline.
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Most popular news on 25 July 2009 |
Paper: Bush considered sending troops into Buffalo
AP - The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.
Obama rushes to quell racial uproar he helped fire
AP - Knocked off stride by a racial uproar he helped stoke, President Barack Obama hastened Friday to tamp down the controversy. Obama, who had said Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., declared the white arresting officer was a good man and invited him and the professor to the White House for a beer.
First Blood Diamonds, Now Blood Computers?
Time.com - Are companies doing enough to make sure that the minerals that go into their laptops and hi-tech toys don't come from blood-soaked war zones?
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