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DETROIT (WWJ) – The men and women of the Detroit Police Department believe the city is too dangerous to enter, and they want citizens to know it.
Detroit Police Officer Association (DPOA) Attorney Donato Iorio said officers are holding the “Enter At Your Own Risk” rally at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in front of Comerica Park to remind the public that the officers are overworked, understaffed, and at times, fearful for their lives.
“Detroit is America’s most violent city, its homicide rate is the highest in the country and yet the Detroit Police Department is grossly understaffed,” Iorio told WWJ’s Kathryn Larson. “The DPOA believes that there is a war in Detroit, but there should be a war on crime, not a war on its officers.”
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History.com: Columbus Day “Columbus Day is a U.S. holiday that commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World on October 12, 1492. It was unofficially celebrated in a number of cities and states as early as the 18th century but did not become a federal holiday until the 1937. For many, the holiday is a way of both honoring Columbus’ achievements and celebrating Italian-American heritage. Throughout its history, Columbus Day and the man who inspired it have generated controversy, and many alternatives to the holiday have appeared in recent years.”
Moths fly to burning candles or glowing light bulbs because of their mating instinct. It is not the illumination that draws them but the ultraviolet light of radiant heat, which to us is invisible. Ultraviolet vision helps moths get together after dark. Their body temperatures soar when they are in flight and they home in on one another like heat-seeking missiles. Warmth from a candle or light seems like a powerful summons from a supermoth. – Provided by Reference.com
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Fewer American Teens Drinking and Driving
Teen drinking and driving rates in the US have fallen 54 percent over the past 20 years, from 22.3 percent in 1991 to just 10.3 percent in 2011. Much of the change has been attributed to tougher drunk driving laws and driving restrictions for young drivers. The fact that high school students are also driving less nowadays, possibly as a result of higher prices at the pump and the poor economy, may also have played a role. It is hoped that this downward trend in drinking and driving will continue, as too many teens, nearly one million last year, still get behind the wheel after drinking.
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Is it drink and read? Or read and drink?
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HOW FRENCH WOMEN BURN CALORIES
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My Night as a Billionaire
This summer, a case of mistaken identity earned me a seat at a formal dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The invitation — to an intimate evening with the museum’s president — was addressed to a good friend of mine. It certainly seemed like an extravagant perk, but his $100 membership renewal was coming due. Maybe times were tough, he reasoned, and the museum was rolling out the red carpet to keep even its smallest contributors. He replied that he would be delighted to attend. But there was another name on the invitation, one he didn’t recognize. Could he bring someone else — his friend Jon Methven — instead? Of course he could; the Met sent a confirmation on official museum letterhead.
Only later did we put two and two together, and realize that the other person on the invitation was a famous billionaire, whose partner happened to have the exact same name as my friend.
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Lee’s Lost Order
By early September 1862, having culminated his triumphant Second Manassas campaign with Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s postscript victory at Chantilly, Va. — within an easy commute of present-day Washington — Robert E. Lee was laying plans to win the war. He had concentrated his army at Frederick, Md., about 40 miles northwest of Lincoln’s capital. A few months before, the Union had been on the verge of taking the Southern capital of Richmond, Va. Now Lee was a victory away from, if not capturing Washington, demonstrating the South’s military and political viability on the doorstep of the Union.
The ensuing Battle of Antietam, like Gettysburg a year later, was one of the great turning points of the war. Given Union demoralization following the rout of Gen. John Pope’s army and doubts among troops returning from Virginia’s peninsula, it was a fight Lee might have a realistic chance of winning. And yet, events in the days leading up to it helped level the field for the Union, which managed — despite its own errors — to eke out a critical victory. The story of early September 1862 was complex, but much of it revolved around two sheets of paper.
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Anatomy of a Campus Coup
On a languorous Sunday in June, low season on the campus of the University of Virginia, Prof. Larry Sabato opened a perplexing e-mail. “My instant reaction,” he said, “was that I thought we’d been hacked.” The message, sent to the entire university, announced the resignation of the university’s president, Teresa Sullivan, obliquely citing a “philosophical difference of opinion” with the institution’s governing board. Sullivan had held the job for just two years, without any scandal, and Sabato couldn’t believe she had been pushed aside with so little evident justification. “I said that if this was true,” he recalled, “this was going to be a P.R. disaster of national proportions.”
Sabato is accustomed to offering predictions — a prodigiously quotable political scientist, he maintains a Web site called Sabato’s Crystal Ball. And his opinions carry serious weight around UVA, an institution he has been immersed in since his undergraduate days in the 1970s, when he served as president of the Student Council. Sabato called around and discovered that the school’s deans had learned of the resignation just that morning at a meeting in which Helen Dragas, the real estate developer who led UVA’s board, warned that the university faced an “existential threat.”
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