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By David Knowles - AOL News(March 3) -- Mice beware. A Woodland, Calif., man convicted of swiping a package of shredded cheese from a grocery store was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison Monday, The Sacramento Bee newspaper reports. Prosecutors had originally asked the judge in the case for a life sentence for Robert Ferguson under the state's controversial "three strikes" law. Ferguson, who had 13 previous convictions, was found to suffer bipolar disorder that resulted in poor impulse control, according to a psychologist's report introduced at trial. "We're talking about a pack of cheese," Monica ...
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By Frances Tobin - Politics DailyRecently, my fellow contributor Joshua Chaney wrote a post in which he argued that environmental policy is rooted in faulty economics. I fundamentally disagree with his claim. In the piece, "McCartney's Meat Free Mondays: Letting a Few Bad Apples Kill the Entire Tree," Joshua raised several examples of what he believes fits this theory. First, as the headline of his post implies, Joshua criticized the efforts of Paul McCartney to promote Meat Free Monday, an "environmental campaign to raise awareness of the climate-changing impact of meat production and consumption," (according to the Web ...
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