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Current Events 10-29
Mrs. oneil, current events quiz!!
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8th Grade
10/29/2007

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Septmember 11
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-6th anniversary of attack
-ceremnoies held in New York, pennsylvania, and washington DC
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NFL confiscation
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NE Pats employee caught recording opposing team (Jets) fensive signals
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Spider Web
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-over 200 yards
-Lake Tawakoni State Park, texas
-Entemoligists: bug experts
-11 different spider fmailies identified
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september 17
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-220th anniversary of United states constitution
-orginally signed on sep. 17th, 1787
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Life expectancy
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-average life expectancy: 78 years--> longest in US history
-Andorra in the Pyrenes mountains has the longest life expectancy: 83.5 years
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september 19th

Definition
25th anniverasry of the :-) language
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google
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-Google is temaing up wiht X Prize foundation, sponser moon challenge contest
-the 1st private team to land a robotic rover on the moon and send back pictres to earth will win 20 MILLION dollars
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5$ bill
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-designed by us treasury
-advanced security featured: arc of purple starts around Araham Lincoln's image
-splashes of grey and purple, and a large 5 ont he back
-60 million discovered fraud dollars a year
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UNited Nations
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_GLOBAL WARMING
-reps from 150 countries attended
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FOOD
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visibility and convinience of food causes us to  over eat
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Rangoon
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-violenc ein Rangoon
-Rangoon is he capital f Burma ( Myanmar)
-more then 100,000 people led by budhist monks marched: demanding that their military government adopt democracy
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9-28
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-62nd session of United Nations General Assembly
-UN founded in 1945-world peace
-made up of reps from 192 countries
-each year meet from sept. dec.
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Nickelodean

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Nickelodean broadcasted 3 hrs of dead air from 12-3 on Sat. Sept. 29th
-4th annual worldwide day of play
-EXCERCIZE
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APARTMENT
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-ilegal apartment
-providence place mall
-8 artist intermittently lived in for 4 years
-"art project"
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Music download trial
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=1st trial begun
-charged wiht ilegal file sharing 1,702 dongs on kazaa
-guilty--> 1.2 million $
26,00 charged in this case
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music download con..
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-music industry won
-jamie Thomas guilty of hsaring 24 songs on kazaa account
-must pay 222,000 dollars
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Britain
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_Prime MInister- Gordon brown
-1/2 eglands troops will be rremoved form iraq in the pring of 2008
-2500 troops will remain
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CYberpsychology+behavior reports
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-individuals who play interactive online video games spend: 14.4 hrs/week playing= poor sleeping patterns
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