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  • New York to replace 250,000 street signs

    09/30/2010 12:34:11 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 27 replies
    upi. ^ | Sept. 30, 2010
    NEW YORK, - New York officials said it will cost about $27.5 million to replace all of the city's street signs to conform to national standards. The New York City Department of Transportation said the signs, which feature street names in all capital letters, will be replaced with signs featuring both capital and lower-case letters and they will be printed in a font called Clearview, the New York Daily News reported Thursday. The Federal Highway Administration said the new sign standards improve safety because they allow drivers to identify words more quickly, allowing them to swiftly bring their eyes back...
  • Obama Supporters Adopt ‘Hussein’ in Act of Solidarity (Cultists proud to use the name)

    06/29/2008 9:47:06 AM PDT · by Recovering_Democrat · 48 replies · 43+ views
    Barack Obama’s middle name Hussein has been used in some corners as a rallying cry to cast false aspersions against him, but in a growing movement, some of his supporters are adopting his middle name as a show of solidarity with the candidate. The New York Times reports that those who are adding Hussein to their name tags — at least online — come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including Jews and Catholics, Hispanics and Asians; and from all over the country, from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C.