Who, on average, is better paid--public school teachers or architects? How about teachers or economists? You might be surprised to learn that public school teachers are better paid than these and many other professionals. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, public school teachers earned $34.06 per hour in 2005, 36% more than the hourly wage of the average white-collar worker and 11% more than the average professional specialty or technical worker.

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The girl students of Jamia Hafsa have refused to vacate a children’s public library until the government enforces Sharia law in Pakistan.

“We want Sharia or we are ready to embrace martyrdom,” representatives of the ‘Students Action Committee’ told reporters here on Thursday. They said they would not vacate the library until Sharia was enforced in the country and action against mosques did not stop.

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Venezuela’s thuggish president, Hugo Chávez, said on Thursday that his government would seize majority state control of four major foreign-run oil producing units by May 1 as part of his self-styled “socialist revolution”.

The Venezuelan government had been negotiating with multinational energy companies to gain majority stakes in the four “strategic association” oil projects in the Orinoco River Belt for about six months.

But the negotiations have been slow-moving and Mr Chávez’s appeared to signal on Thursday that his government is prepared to take over the assets without negotiations if necessary.

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A farmer who chased down a thief and held him at gunpoint until authorities arrived now faces a more serious charge than the thief himself.

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Attorneys for an immigrant the Bush administration calls an al-Qaida sleeper agent said Thursday that their client is being detained unconstitutionally and should be allowed to challenge his imprisonment in court.

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Look, we realize that it's early in the presidential campaign season, but Hillary and the Congressional Democrats' most recent and egregious outright lie is that the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, the agreement between Congress and the President, merely authorized the President to "negotiate" with Iraq to allow the inspectors back in to search for and locate weapons of mass destruction.  Not to use force.  Not to invade.  But to “negotiate” some more.  We’re to forget that they knew full well that it was a resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq and that they signed on to it.

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From the ‘all sex is rape’ drivel of Catherine McKinnon to the forthcoming misandropoligical text book, ‘Are Men Necessary?’ by Maureen Dowd we know this group of sexually frustrated females view us with contempt.  On a side note, does Maureen Dowd have her own dungeon?  It would seem to fit someone who may be a closet dominatrix.

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In front of the walls pocked with craters from the ball bearings, truth was more nuanced. But apparently no journalists visited the village to find out what really happened and what it tells us about the people who live here.

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How much would you sell your private data to a company for?  Would you take $100 to let someone see every site you have visited over the past year, how about $1,000? Today, many major companies spend millions collecting a variety data on individuals such as; what charities you donate to, your political beliefs, your shopping habits, your educational data and your contact information.

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The Super Bowl is really only half about the game. The other half is about seeing how much food and booze you can shove down your gullet before midnight rolls around, and having a free pass to show up to work hung-over the next day. Many folks agonize over throwing or attending the perfect party, but agony is futile because, really, all Super Bowl Parties feature the same things: lots of nachos, lots of beer and the following infuriating cast of characters.

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There are only a handful of things in the world that can ruin a show where attractive ladies (and a bunch of total lunatics) compete in a stripping competition.

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The Bush administration has suspended plans to develop space ventures with China, including joint exploration of the moon, in reaction to Beijing's Jan. 11 test of an anti-satellite weapon that left orbiting debris threatening U.S. and foreign satellites. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Jason Sharp said the weapon test undermined an agreement reached between President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao during an April summit.

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When Wright County officials opened a storage locker last summer, they discovered a meth lab with 50 gallon jugs of urine.

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 doctor pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing a severed hand, which he gave to a stripper who displayed it in her New Jersey apartment.

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Actually, that looks rather inviting... Enjoy!

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Underage students at a college in Rochester, N.Y. get to drink beer and wine during class -- and it's legal. That's if they're enrolled in a pair of courses at Rochester Institute of Technology titled Wines of the World and Beers of the World. The courses are taught in R.I.T.'s College of Hospitality and Management Services. During class, students learn about various wines and beer and get to sample them.

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A dead man's storage locker yielded dozens of tombstones, a macabre collection that police believe represents "a lifetime of stealing." Some of the 47 gravestones date to the late 1800s; others are relatively recent. Police say they probably came from different cemeteries at different times.

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My story begins at the end of June 2004. A friend of mine and me are on our way to check out another Murcielago because the first one that we had a look at near Munich wasn't in good condition anymore and I didn't like it because of that.
Shortly after that I realised that I made my decision. This was the car that I was going to buy. Those thoughts were in my head all way back home.

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I rarely get caught up in quixotic Internet causes, but this is too good to pass up. It includes three things close to my heart: breasts and the milk therein, big pork, and, for some additional gadget-tasticness, you could add in some robot breast pumps or something. Plus this poor lady is from Columbus, my home town, so rock and roll.

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He beat her after her father's funeral. He beat her because she needed a kidney operation. He even beat her when the dog knocked over his coffee. And after Jeanne Kane stopped being John Galtieri's punching bag and got payback in divorce court, the enraged ex-NYPD cop hunted her down and killed her as she listened to love songs in her car, police believe.

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Male nudes are the norm in Greek art, even though historians have stated that ancient Greeks kept their clothes on for the most part. New research suggests that art might have been imitating life more closely than previously thought.

"The New York Times agreed to write a letter to Sgt. Leija's family explaining the process we go through to notify families and why we run the articles and photographs we do, and expressing regret that the family suffered distress," said a statement from the newspaper.

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The Community Security Trust (CST), a registered charity that advises and represents the Jewish community on matters of anti-Semitism, terrorism, policing and security, recorded 594 incidents throughout the country in 2006. According to the report, this represented a 31 percent from the 455 recorded in 2005, as well as the highest number of attacks since records began in 1984.

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President Bush should scrap his unilateral approach and respect religious diversity in his "war on terror" to resolve troubles in Iraq, a senior Chinese official said in comments published on Thursday.

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CHINA has secretly harboured the eldest son of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il in Macau for three years, despite the US-led crackdown on North Korea's finances in the former Portuguese colony, local reports say.

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"The Mexican consulate was allowed to coach the witnesses," said Brandon Judd, president of Local 2544, which represents 90 percent of the 2,900 Customs and Border Protection agents in Southern Arizona. "Now the agent is in jeopardy because these witnesses were allowed to solidify their stories as the Mexican consulate coached them to do."

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When I was a young teenager, the boys loved the sexy Jane Fonda in Barbarella. After I became an American soldier and a Vietnam veteran, she was "Hanoi Jane" to all of us. We were disgusted when she became a revolutionary and a communist sympathizer who sat on North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns and gave aid and comfort to our enemy.

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Walter Boyaki, the El Paso, Texas-based attorney for Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, told Cybercast News Service Wednesday he was exploring a lawsuit for his client, but he added that no papers have been filed yet in federal court. He was reluctant to go into detail about the complaint other than to say it would accuse the government of negligence.

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As Arie Ford went inside to gather her two children from her Minneapolis home Wednesday morning, a man stole her idling car. A few blocks away, he repeatedly rammed that car into a cab driven by her brother and injured a well-known 79-year-old North Side clothes store owner.

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Erica and her naughty, naughty fishnets... Enjoy!

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Sheriff Mike Ammend said people can't take the law into their own hands, and that Englund's actions were "an invitation to a shootout. There's so many things that could have gone wrong here."

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