Archive for the ‘Social Issues’ Category
Saturday, August 13th, 2011

A restaurant's humorous sign kindly reminds parents to control their children's behavior in the establishment with the threat of sending the tykes home with an espresso and a puppy.
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Tags: behavior, espresso, Establishment, home, owner, puppy, restaurant, Sign, threat, type
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Friday, August 12th, 2011

A restaurant's humorous sign kindly reminds parents to control their children's behavior in the establishment with the threat of sending the tykes home with an espresso and a puppy.
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Tags: behavior, espresso, Establishment, home, owner, puppy, restaurant, Sign, threat, type
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Saturday, July 9th, 2011

Victory Fund President Chuck Wolfe on a gay President: 'I think we may see a candidate in 5 cycles, that's 20 years. You have too build the bench here. So we're spending a lot of time on the trainings, and getting people elected as mayors. We have a few state-wide elected officials today. Often somebody ...
Tags: bench, Broadway, campaign, candidate, Fund, Lesbian, lot, time, victory, video
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Francis Ortiz, HIV Testing Counselor, left, and Gregory Jacques, HIV Testing Program Manager, outside the free HIV testing clinic located in the Out of the Closet thrift store in Fort Lauderdale. (Gina Fontana, Sun Sentinel / June 9, 2011)
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Tags: AHF, AIDS, closet, Francis, HIV, opening, Pharmacy, store, testing, thrift
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Friday, June 24th, 2011

Daniel Hernandez came to the game not just as a hero but a pillar of the gay community. The annual 'night out' at Nats park celebrates the gay community, and Hernandez was there to start it with his pitch.
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Tags: Community, game, Gifford, hero, intern, night, Office, Park, pillar, pitch
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Saturday, June 11th, 2011

An Alabaster-based animal rights group is celebrating after it helped pass a pair of bills to do away with what the group's chairperson called a 'barbaric way of exterminating homeless animals.'
The Alabama Voters for Responsible Animal Legislation, which is based in Alabaster, helped introduce Senate Bill 172 ...
Tags: Alabaster, Alabaster-based, animal, Bill, chairperson, group, house, pair, Senate, way
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011

PARIS (Reuters) - A third opinion poll in two weeks showed a rise in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's tepid popularity ratings, with his score up two points at the start of June to 34 percent in an Ifop survey published Tuesday.
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Tags: election, French, Ifop, May, opinion, percent, poll, Reuters, rise, Survey
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Monday, May 30th, 2011

A controversial autism doctor has been suspended in Washington, a month after another state accused him of misdiagnosing children and endangering them with a risky treatment involving a testosterone suppressant.
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Tags: Autism, Board, business, Clinic, doctor, Geier, month, puberty, state, treatment
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

This weekend, NBC confirmed that hit reality competition The Biggest Loser will return for another season on NBC's primetime schedule and trainer Bob Harper has told Access Hollywood that the ship will continue to sail the waters just fine without Jillian Michaels, who previously announced she would not be returning.
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Tags: access, competition, fine, gonna, Loser, NBC, reality, season, show, weekend
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France (Reuters) - Having built a dream life in France, raising five kids in a big suburban home, Haitian Lejesse Sertile grew so tired of crime that he switched to the right and voted for Nicolas Sarkozy in a 2007 election.
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Tags: CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, crime, dream, home, Lejesse, life, Reuters, right, Sertile, time
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