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New York state running out of cash
Albany :: NY :: USA | about 9 hours ago
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New York state could be down to its last $36 million by the end of 2009, officials say. State officials told The New York Times a cash crisis could come sooner if New York does not tap its rainy day funds. The state budget is around $130 billion, second...
Tags: The New York Times, Albany, Blind people, David Paterson, Public finance, Paterson New Jersey, New York, Deficit, Politics, United Press International, Social Issues, Eliot Spitzer
Hajj climax marked by 3m worshippers
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 1 day ago
Credibility Others who could not find a space climbed on top of buildings, raising their hands to the sky, praying for forgiveness on the mountain, where the Prophet Mohammed gave his last sermon to pilgrims. But the hajj this year took place amid tensions between...
Tags: Arafat, Islam, Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz, mount arafat, Muslims, Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Religion Belief, War Conflict, House of Saud, Hajj, Muzdalifah, Muhammad, Saudi royal family, Blind people, Tawaf, Islam in Saudi Arabia, Pilgrimage, Abdul Aziz, Conversion of non-Muslim places of worship into mosques, Kings of Saudi Arabia, Arabic architecture, Adnanites, Kaaba
Astronauts to return Galileo's telescope
Florence :: Italy | 1 day ago
Credibility A replica of Galileo Galilei's telescope is headed back to Florence next month after travelling into orbit for a commemorative mission uniting the past and present of space exploration. The telescope was recreated during a painstaking two-year project...
Tags: Galileo Galilei, Florence, Scott Altman, Italy, Religion and science, Io, Blind people, Hubble Space Telescope, Technology Internet, Galileo, Moons of Jupiter, Sidereus Nuncius
Can’t Cut Budget? Then Let Me Do It, Paterson Tells an Unmoved Legislature
Albany :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Paterson made via webcast on Tuesday morning seemed to ensure that. The governor asked the Legislature to grant him unilateral authority to make cuts to close a $3.2 billion budget deficit in the current fiscal year, which ends on March 31. Months of...
Tags: New York, David Paterson, Paterson Tells, Albany, Blind people, Business Finance, Politics, Paterson New Jersey, Paterson, Deficit, Social Issues, Eliot Spitzer, Thomas DiNapoli, Public finance, Governorship of Mitt Romney, Kansas state budget
GALILEO, GALILEO, GALILEOOOOOO!
Galileo Galilei known for inventing the telescope that enabled him to discover that the planet Jupitor has moons. He also believed that the earth was not the center of the universe so he became an advocate for Copernican astronomy. Galileo died...
Tags: Galileo, fingers, teeth, tooth, urn, jars, Galilei, Museum of History of Science, Florence, Italy, auctions, corpse, archeology, century, lost, 1905, 1642, Galileo Galilei, allnews, Luray, DNA, Io, Religion and science, Blind people, Paolo Galluzzi, Church, GALILEOOOOOO
New Yorkers clamor for change in Albany: poll
Albany :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility New Yorkers struggling to make ends meet during the recession are clamoring for change in how lawmakers in the state capital Albany conduct business, according to a survey released on Monday. Seventy-five percent of 805 voters surveyed between November...
Tags: Albany, Blind people, David Paterson, Paterson New Jersey, Politics, Albany California
John Rentoul: Like it or not, there it is. A Tory policy
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility I dimly remember plans for something similar when John Major was Prime Minister, to be run initially by the Prince's Trust. But the Trust chose to focus its efforts on the most disadvantaged young people. The idea of a universal scheme was taken up by...
Tags: David Cameron, United Kingdom, London, Ken Livingstone, Conservative Party, Scheme, Conservatism, Anglo-Scots, Blind people, David Blunkett, Politics
State’s Credit Rating Could Be Lowered, Investors Service Says
Albany :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Moody’s Investors Service this week warned that the state’s credit rating could be downgraded if the Legislature does not take serious steps to close the $3.2 billion budget gap and revenue continues to lag. The warning, released on Thursday, comes as...
Tags: Moody’s Investors Service, credit rating, health care, Albany, Mr. Paterson, Moody's, Credit rating agency, Albany New York, Deficit, Business Finance, Blind people, David Paterson, Public finance
Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers (Reuters)
Rome :: Italy | 6 days ago
Credibility An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday. The body parts, along with another finger and a vertebrae, were...
Tags: Galileo Galilei, Florence, Italy, Rome, Genetics, E-Science, Large Hadron Collider, Genome, Transposon, Environment, Genomics, Mobile genetic elements, Particle physics, Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Life of Galileo, Galileo, Galilei, Religion and science, Blind people, Human Interest, Pisa
Moran to defrock housewives with music from '50s
Skokie :: IL :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Staff Reporter Don't you dare call Heather Moran a desperate housewife. "I am a housewife, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I am desperate," the 40-year-old mother of three says with a chuckle...Now Get Out," a concert featuring 20 or so jazzy arrangements...
Tags: Skokie, Women in jazz, Moran, Bandleaders, Blind people, Ella Fitzgerald, Entertainment Culture
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