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Throughout the month of February, Black History Month is celebrated in the United States and Canada, as special events and other commemorative activities often fill the calendar during this time. Several bloggers have started an online project to honor another group of people of Black African ancestry and complement the festivities with ...
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico on January 24,1874, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg would become an important figure in both Puerto Rican and African American history. A historian, writer and activist, Arturo researched and raised awareness regarding the contributions made to society by Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Americans.
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The ridiculous hype is finally over and Steve Jobs has given birth to yet another neat consumer device. The iPad isn't even shipping yet, and it's already made a huge splash in the press. Coverage of the iPad has been everywhere and Apple fans are swooning and waiting to whip out their credit cards to buy one.
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This village has a complicated history, adapting to the shifting map of territorial conquests and squeezed between Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
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Five American Muslims threw a handwritten note to reporters from a police vehicle, stating: “Since our arrest, the U.S.A., F.B.I., and Pakistani police have tortured us.”
Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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Nexus One update fixes 3G problem, adds limited multitouch
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Google has started pushing out an update for the Nexus One that will fix a 3G connectivity problem that has plagued some users and adds limited support for multitouch. After receiving over 1,500 messages in a support forum from people complaining about trouble connecting to 3G, Google said last week that it had identified the problem and would ...
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A Stonington man convicted of possessing child pornography must pay about $200,000 in restitution to a woman photographed as a child while being sexually abused.
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U.S. House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, along with a coalition of civil rights and Muslim activists, again is calling for a Justice Department investigation into last fall's shooting of a Detroit imam by FBI agents. The cleric's long-awaited autopsy report was released Monday.
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FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research is responsible for regulating vaccines in the U.S. Before new vaccines are licensed, they are tested extensively for safety in the laboratory, in animals, and in successive stages of human clinical trials called phases. When a new vaccine is first tested in humans, a sponsor (a vaccine ...
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Mozilla announced last week the availability of Firefox for Maemo 1.0, the first official release of Firefox Mobile for Nokia's Linux-based smartphone operating system. It offers adequate browsing performance, support for add-ons, and a finger-friendly user interface that includes popular Firefox features like the AwesomeBar. This Firefox ...
This post is part of RuNet Echo, a Global Voices project to interpret the Russian language internet. All posts · Learn more Irkutsk [EN] regional portal Babr.ru published [RUS] photos of a police raid [EN] of the Baikal Environmental Wave. The organization is fighting against reopening highly polluting Baikalsk cellulose plant [EN] located on ...
If you're a registered broker or work for firm that sells any sort of investment products, you'll want to think twice before blurting out anything that could be construed as investment advice on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has updated its guidelines for interpreting ...
Citizen activists tore down a fence at yet another illegal construction site in downtown Kyiv: 25 photos, as well as earlier updates (UKR) - here and here - atDerybanu.net.
AP - A top Senate Democrat is asking 30 leading technology, Internet and communications companies to provide detailed descriptions of their operations and human rights practices in China.
We had a great response to our January giveaway . We're sending out e-mails to our winners today; if you commented on last month's post or are an Ars Premier Subscriber , keep an eye on your inbox (and possibly spam folder). Additionally, if you were one of the first 20 Ars Premier subscribers after we made the original posting on January 11 or ...
Higher Quarterly Sales and Operating Earnings Driven by Double-Digit Volume Growth in Emerging Geographies and by Joint Venture Performance versus the Same Quarter Last Year
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After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.
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Dell is hatching a plan to take some of the custom servers designed by its Data Center Solutions division for Web giants like Yahoo and Facebook and sell them to a wider range of companies, including large enterprises, Dell executives said. The DCS unit was formed about three years ago to help Dell get more business from large Internet firms. ...
IBM Research has unveiled and demonstrated a carbon-based transistor that could render silicon-based CMOS chips obsolete over the next 10 years.
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Why are the animals of the Gal�pagos less skittish than their counterparts on continents?
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