Now rubber ‘closets’

Source: New York Post

The “rubber rooms” have bounced back. They’re just smaller and scattered now. More than 200 NYC educators suspected of misconduct or incompetence are hidden in offices all over the city. In the infamous rubber rooms that closed in 2010, up to 770 ...
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U.S. steps up efforts to deport criminal immigrants

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

In an aggressive effort to boost deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun to increase by nearly 25 percent the number of agents tasked with finding and deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records. The department has ...
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32 from Palos clan log 542 years at Arsenal

Source: Quad-City Times

Judy (Palos) Reger chuckled politely and boasted humbly of her family. “If there is another that has served the Rock Island Arsenal with 32 members, I am not aware of it,” said Reger, of Silvis. “If there is, it would be amazi ...
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Feds set focus on criminal immigrants

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

May 27, 2012 12:27 am Share with others: By Brian Bennett / Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- In an aggressive effort to boost deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun to increase by nearly 25 percent ...
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Turbine tussle whips up

Source: Ottawa Sun

Wind turbines at the Erie Shores Wind Farm near Port Burwell generate power. Similar turbines may be popping up near Ottawa. (CRAIG GLOVER/QMI AGENCY) Ottawa’s not known as the windy city, but within a few hundred kilometres of Parliament Hill’s Peace ...
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'Max Payne 3' a cinematic masterpiece

Source: Quad-Cities Online

Max Payne hasn't graced video gamers' screens for nearly nine years, and when we reacquaint ourselves with the former New York City detective, we find a man drowning his troubled past in bottles of scotch and presc ...
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My Headmaster

Source: Experience Project

At my school at certain times of the day,the Head gave his canings.So it was quite common for a line of boys to be waiting outside the office listening to the thwacks and aaarghhs and to be dreading their turn.Some boys l ...
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Bookmarks: Recently released novels

Source: Deseret News

Here are some novels that have crossed our desks recently. Two scientists aboard the Mauretania are rescued from abduction by detective Isaac Bell, but aren't so lucky the second time. One of the scientists dies over their new inve ...
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Vaughan Bell: the trouble with brain scans

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Neuroscientists have long been banging their heads on their desks over exaggerated reports of brain scanning studies. Media stories illustrated with coloured scans, supposedly showing how the brain works, are now a standard part of the science pages and ...
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