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Pit bull owners more likely to be criminals Washington November 17, 2006 - 12:23PM People who own vicious dogs such as pit bulls have significantly more criminal convictions - including crimes against children - than owners of licensed, gentler dogs such as beagles, American researchers report. A study of 355 dog owners in Ohio showed that every owner of a high-risk breed known for aggression had at least one brush with the law, from traffic citations to serious criminal convictions. And 30 per cent of people who owned an aggressive breed of dog and who also had been cited at...

Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- A new study has confirmed what observers of China's family planning policies have suspected for years. By forcing women to have abortions, sterilizing them and targeting them and their families for persecution has caused a severe gender imbalance that's resulted in sexually exploiting women, higher crimes and other social concerns. Conducted by Qu Jian Ding of the Institute of Population Studies at Zhejiang University and Therese Hesketh of London's Institute of Child Health, the study finds men in the Asian nation overwhelmingly outnumber women. The pair relied on data from 40,000 women and found that the...

by J.R. As many of you already know, a passenger on an American Airlines jet was shot and killed by an Air Marshal, when the male passenger stated that he had a bomb in his carry on bag. The Air Marshal attempted to apprehend the man who then ran out of the plane toward the airport terminal, when the Air Marshal caught up to the man, the man reached into the bag and was shot and killed by the Air Marshal. It was later learned, unforunately, that the man did not have a bomb in his carry on, and that...

Men were 80 percent more likely to have a heart attack if they had experienced a conflict at work within the preceding 12 months. For women, a change in financial circumstances tripled their risk. Men were six times as likely to have a heart attack if they had taken on increased responsibilities at work. Working in a high-pressure environment on tight deadlines can cause a six-fold increase in the risk of having a heart attack. The research, published today, found that short-term intense pressures have a greater impact on the heart that prolonged periods of accumulated stress. Work-related stress plays...

Elites lost to people power The election of 2004 will be seen historically as the beginning of a dramatic reshaping of the techniques, methods and tactics of American politics. This year, the nation’s political process was turned upside down as the elites lost power and the masses of average voters gained it. “Mass communication” usually denotes the few speaking to the many through the journalistic and electronic media that they control. Now it must be redefined as the masses communicating and imposing their views on the elites, often over the furious objections of their former masters. The defeat of the...

I understand this will probably get deleted, and I should post this in an existing thread, but I just have to say, "Dan Rather is an asshole."