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Cintra and the Macquarie Infrastructure Group (mig) of Australia

state would hand over operation of the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road for the next 75 years

tax breaks

immunity from most local and state taxes

generate more than $11 billion over the 75-year

prelude to a host of such efforts to come.

privatizing everything from the New York Thruway to the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey turnpikes,

$25 billion in public-private highway deals are in the works

Transurban, paid more than half a billion dollars for a 99-year lease on Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway

$1.3 billion bid by Cintra and construction behemoth Zachry Construction to build and operate a 40-mile toll road out of Austin.

The study also mentions that more than half the children in the study have TVs in their bedrooms, more than three-quarters have McDonald's toys at home, and one-third ate at McDonald's more than once a week. >

needed in the U.S.-declared war on terrorism.

355 detainees

80 are eligible for release or transfer

another 75 to 80 detainees on track for transfer

down to about 200

25 of the 80 detainees currently eligible for transfer cannot be returned to their home nations because of human rights concerns

U.S. officials did not specify which countries were reluctant

Britain asked the United States on Tuesday to release five detainees from Guantanamo

still reviewing the request

14 al Qaeda suspects

a label that allows the U.S. government to keep holding them

from secret CIA prisons

not meant to determine guilt

Charges have not been filed

because he wouldn't stop reciting the First Amendment to a bunch of stone-faced cops.

routinely rub the NYPD the wrong way

City Hall claims the cyclists don't have the right to assemble and pedal

Transportation Alternatives advocate a "green hierarchy" which gives priority to pedestrians, cyclists, mass transit, and commercial vehicles over the single occupancy cars

the NYPD hauled the Reverend Billy off to jail for reciting the First Amendment at the monthly bicycle rally known as Critical Mass

next step is to build and study the performance of a four-metre model,

Waste heat, a byproduct of any fossil fuel or nuclear plant operation that is typically vented into the air through cooling towers, is carried by water pipe to a vortex engine facility nearby. The hot water enters a number of cooling cells stationed around the facility where fans push dry air across hot pipes.

air picks up the heat and enters the vortex through 10 or more angled ducts, causing the air to swirl inside. The heated air begins to rise in a spinning motion, gathering energy the higher it gets and creating a vortex. As the vortex gathers momentum it begins to suck air through the cooling cells, at which point the fans that initially pushed in the air now function as turbines that generate electricity.

$60 million

o longer need a separate cooling tower.

cost less than one quarter the cost of a coal plant,

excluding the cooling tower benefits and the fact that no ongoing fuel expenses

Once it gets going, it may be too hard to stop

could be turned down, or shut off completely, by limiting the amount of air flow into the base of the funnel

as the vortex grows it would likely be able to pull in warm ambient air from many kilometres away, creating the possibility for debris accumulation and making it more difficult to manage.

series of controlled tornados along the equator would carry that heat to the outer edges of the atmosphere, where it could more easily escape.

Virginia's public records law,

In comparison, the Virginia Beach SPCA, right down the road from PETA’s Norfolk headquarters, managed to adopt out almost 70% of the animals in its care last year. And it did it on a relative shoestring budget.

the group has put down over 19,200 dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens. While it's possible that some of these animals were too broken or sick to be rehabilitated, humane societies in Virginia managed to save an average of nearly 65 percent of their animals in 2007. PETA found adoptive homes for less than 1 percent.

The Sexual Organs of Dandelions

Fake Sex in Virgin Whiptail Lizards (Vestigial Behavior)

Male Breast Tissue and Nipples

The Blind Fish Astyanax Mexicanus

The Wings on Flightless Birds

The Human Appendix

The Human Tailbone (Coccyx)

100 million years the only vertebrates on Earth were water-dwelling creatures, with no arms or legs

its main function is to help digest a largely herbivorous diet.

left of the tail

The pale fish has eyes, but as it is developing in the egg, the eyes begin to degenerate, and the fish is born with a collapsed remnant of an eye covered by flap of skin

give an animal a larger appearance that might scare off potential enemies and a coat that is thicker and warmer.

reproduce without fertilization

As our ancestors were learning to walk upright, their tail became useless, and it slowly disappeared.

kiwi, and the kakapo

dental hygiene.

used for balance during running

courtship displays

US farm subsidy policy is artificially promoting GM production at the expense of other non-gm oilseeds

US's commitment to free world trade in the agricultural sector is something of a fraud

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians

orcing consumers to buy things they don't want providing large taxpayer revenues to produce those things in the first place

$624 million

69 Wal-Mart stores received other low-cost financing of about $138 million

uses taxpayer dollars to create jobs that tend to be poverty-wage, part-time and lacking in adequate healthcare benefits

$9 billion in profits can wrest job subsidies from state and local governments

75 percent of our jobs are fulltime and we offer solid healthcare benefits starting at less than $35 a month for individuals

buying water from Savannah for the last five years.

decade ago

became widely known about a decade ago >,

straining the key underground water source past its limits

continued high use there of underground water could intensify saltwater intrusion in wells

already caused some saltwater to be suctioned

5, 10 or 15 years

180,000 U.S. civilians working in Iraq under U.S. contracts

does not include tens of thousands who have been hired by many of these as “sub-contractors” or tens of thousands who have been hired as “private security.”

exceeds by at least 20,000 the number of combat troops,

union-busting activities and mercenary operations to control whole towns

43,000 “foreign” (non-American, non-Iraqi) contractors on the U.S. payroll

President Bush earns the distinction of being the first president in U.S. history to rely on private corporations to carry out the occupation of a country.

coalition is billing the American taxpayer.”

our young men and women dying to support corporate contractors

Interviews granted to the People’s Weekly World by Iraqi trade unionists

laying the groundwork for a permanent economic occupation of that country

We never had problems providing electricity to the people until they started this privatization with U.S.-paid operators

led by the sheriff's office and has involved 17 agencies

destroying our lands and wildlife

$300 million to revive

$11,000 per acre to pull the plants, clear irrigation systems, reshape any terracing and replant native vegetation

Walters didn't give specific goals for Operation Alesia

put its leaders into jail

at least two straight weeks of daily raids

at least two straight weeks of daily raids

Bosenko has promised will be at least two straight weeks of daily raids.

straight weeks of daily raids.

two straight weeks of daily raids

two straight weeks of daily raids.

two straight weeks of daily raids.

organizing to fight for their right to land, health care and education.

lack of government support.

land occupation, and the intention of occupying land, will become a crime punishable in some cases by five years in prison

arbitrary decision by a judge

anti-terrorist law

straight to prison.

dangerous interventions or obstacles on public roadways,” “noise pollution”

financing terrorist activities is also a crime punishable by 5-15 years in prison, as is any kind of association with terrorist organizations.

anyone could be considered a terrorist

A lawyer giving a workshop, a journalist doing an investigation, or an international NGO providing financial support could all be accused of promoting terrorism.”

negligence and fraudulent concealment while using the pesticide.

generally accepted studies in the scientific community of which we are aware which establishes an effect on sterility in banana farm workers

placed under the jurisdiction of Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney.

$7.6 billion expected for New Orleans levees

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has sufficient funding to make repairs and improvements until fiscal year 2009

YouTube said it was trying to avoid pre-rolls that precede the main feature at sites like Microsoft Corp.'s MSN

internal tests show more than 70 percent of people give up when they see a pre-roll. By contrast, less than 10 percent decide to close an overlay, which they can exit by clicking on an "X" in a corner.

The overlay format also gives advertisers more flexibility, he said, because they aren't constrained to keeping a video ad at 15 or 30 seconds to avoid defection.

YouTube, which Google Inc. bought last year for $1.76 billion

YouTube generated about $15 million in revenue last year

$20 per thousand viewers