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At American Islamic banquet, warning about “surveillance society”
May 10, 2011"We now live in a surveillance society," civil liberties attorney Chip Pitts charged, "and the dangerous thing is that [it is being] taken for granted, like water is for fish."
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Mississippi flood leaves hundreds homeless in Memphis
May 10, 2011Hundreds of families, most of whom did not have flood insurance, have been added to the already swelling numbers of homeless in Memphis and other parts of Shelby County.
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New legislation weaponizes Texas classrooms
May 10, 2011The Texas Senate approved, in a 19 to 12 vote, a bill to allow the carrying of concealed handguns on public college campuses.
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“Study-in” becomes “lock-in” and a professor speaks out
May 10, 2011NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - On April 27, nine students launched a "study-in" at the office of Rutgers University president Richard L. McCormick. The students soon found themselves in a kind of "lock in" as they were...
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Power surge: Record number of Latinos voted in 2010
May 10, 2011A recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center reported that a million more Latinos voted in 2010 than did so in the 2006 midterm election.
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