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- Questions of Leap Year and accurate time measurement might seem pretty ho-hum now, but there was a time when they could have got a person burned alive. |
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- ENERGY -- Katie Tackett likes to have fun with the numbers. |
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- BENTON -- Despite a projected $400,000 budget deficit that is increasing rapidly each month, the Benton City Council has temporarily delayed the layoff of five police dispatchers but according to the city's public safety commissioner, the layoffs are still inevitable. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Colt Wilkey, 6, sat quietly and drummed his fingers on his leg while mouthing musical notes prior to his name being called at the 53rd annual Junior Music Festival Saturday. |
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- METROPOLIS -- Cairo's men's basketball coach, Larry Baldwin and three adolescents injured in the riot that followed Massac County's upset victory of Cairo Friday were released later that night after being treated for their injuries. |
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- GOREVILLE -- On Saturday, Barry Chester of the Eagle Point Bay Association and the Lake of Egypt Association of Property Owners, welcomed Johnson County candidates and guests to a meet-the-candidates open house. |
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- CARBONDALE -- William R. Cousins, 51, died early Saturday morning from smoke inhalation after his trailer at 300 S. Graham Ave., No. 3, caught fire, Jackson County Coroner Thomas Kupferer said. |
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- CARBONDALE -- "Believe this -- Sylvester Willis will not go out without a bang." |
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- CARBONDALE -- Who says playing high school football doesn't help a college basketball player. |
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- Same old story, but this time the Salukis cut it a little shorter than usual. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Cairo's best 3-point shooter wasn't around to take the last shot, but Pilots boys basketball coach Larry Baldwin said his hopes for the regional championship didn't fall until the final buzzer in Metropolis. |
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- CARBONDALE -- When will it end? |
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- CARBONDALE -- Amy Harre did her thing, as usual, while Cassidy Scoggins put in a fine performance in her first home audition as Harre's understudy. That combination, along with a few well-timed offensive fireworks, added up to a pair of victories for the Southern Illinois University softball team. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Spring is in the air, and that can only mean one thing -- the Major League Baseball season is just around the corner. |
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- Those involved in tourism were encouraged last November when Gov. Rod Blagojevich traveled to Southern Illinois and said bolstering the industry is a key component of his economic recovery strategy for the region. |
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- It's always wise to take a deep breath and count to 10 when you sense you might become intemperate. So, here goes: |
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- An amusing habit of young people is their tendency to think that their generation came up with every idea that sounds in any way cool. |
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- PHILADELPHIA -- Like many large urban schools, West Philadelphia High School strives to accommodate all comers: aspiring collegians and potential dropouts, gang members and gospel singers, teenage moms with their babies in tow. |
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- CARBONDALE -- More than $160 million set in construction projects at Southern Illinois University Carbondale could mean the local job market will experience a boom in number of working people, Chancellor Walter Wendler said. |
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- SAN DIEGO -- Near the end of his life, Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel sat down with his wife, Audrey, to speak of the past and of things to come. |
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- MARION --The state treasurer's office is taking its economic opportunity partnership program on the road and Marion will be one of the stops this spring. |
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- WILLIAMSON COUNTY -- It's been a difficult week for Scott Gamster and the employees of Reaco Battery. Just seven days after a fire totaled the main building, located about one mile south of Johnston City, things are returning to semi-normal. |
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- There is an air of slightly nervous anticipation in a North Seattle second-floor apartment on a recent Saturday evening. The "girls' night in" is just getting started: a flurry of doorbells, debate over where to place candles, wine corks popping, Coach handbags piling up in the bedroom. |
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- I haven't attempted to ski for years, but recently I decided to take another stab at it. I was hoping they'd done something about the gravity problem. |
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- SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Go ahead -- laugh. |
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TRAVEL TIPS (Feb 29 2004 09:53 GMT) - Question: I wonder if you could advise me regarding visiting Nicaragua. I have never been there, but I heard there is the potential of cheap investment and low cost of living. I'm about to retire and am looking for safe and inexpensive living in the Caribbean or Central America. |
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- Question: My husband and I have three boys, ages 4, 5, and 8. The two younger ones share a room that looks like "tornado alley." They color, play with Legos, tear up paper and the like all day. They give me no problem when I tell them it's time to clean up, but within minutes, it can look like a disaster again. |
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- Longtime Mac digital video developer Media 100 is facing a financial crisis. [MacInTouch] |
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- Dear friends. Earn Rs. 6,000 per month. Believe me. I'm currently earning this amount. |
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- If you are willing to put forth a little effort, we can show you how to put an end to that vicious cycle of living just over broke. Take control of your life and experience the freedom and joy of being financially independent. Be your own boss, you can be in control. You will be doing simple assignments for different Companies. Don't Hesitate. |
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- Sushi GuitarThe geisha girl sushi guitar that Zannah aka #!/user/bin/girl pointed to is still playing in my mind. |
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- TWiki Test Infrastructure TBD Contributors: BR Main.PeterThoeny 02 Nov 2003 Discussions TWiki needs a test infrastructure. This helps in making the barrier to contribution ... |
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- Update to my review of the Motorola V600 (as a side-bar that review is now on the first page of results.) According to Motorola there is no problem with the V600. As flimsy as my evidence was (2 phones in 2 stores) they don't offer any reasoning or evidence to backup their claim. I've also come across a forum for Motorola users called Mototone. As I write this the site is being relaunched so lots of the links aren't live yet, but the forums are working and I have posted a question about V600 call quality there. |
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- Teutonic Myth & Legendby Donald A. Mackenzie1912The Betrayal of Siegfried |
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- Juicy. Tasmanian apple and pear case labels. 346 of them. |
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- TWiki Refactoring Project This page is hopefully going to become the central gateway for TWiki refactoring efforts. The TWiki codebase as it is now (2004-02-08) is ... |
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- A depressing note from an otherwise unrelated Economist obituary (Link requires subscription):Most are now forgotten, but they were famous at the time: baseball's Babe Ruth, William Randolph Hearst, the model for "Citizen Kane"... Have even the Economist's readers sunk so far that they need to be reminded who William Randolph Hearst was? Or that the best way to do so is by referring to a movie?... |
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- AllHeadlineNews.com - Feb 29 2004 14:19:0 GMT |
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- Wolves center Michael Olowokandi's left knee hasn't caused the Timberwolves center as many problems as his left side, which becomes rock hard from his hip to his knee and sometimes needs as much as five hours of therapy a day... |
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- Police are investigating whether notes left at a truck-stop ministry could offer clues in the effort to determine who killed seven women, most of them prostitutes. |
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- Investigators searching for a couple and their young son who disappeared on Valentine's Day plan to charge a relative of the family in connection with their disappearance. |
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- Refactoring handleCommonTags and handleIncludeFile These two closely-related functions are rather confusing, and there are some performance concerns with their behavior ... |
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- TOC Refactored from PleaseCreateNewWeb after a conversation I had with Main.PeterThoeny in which he said he'd favour new categories over a new web. INCLUDE{Main ... |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: Independent on Sunday |
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- Refactoring FuncDotPm removed erroneous comments related to ModPerl support I'd like to create another "external interface" package that implements a class. Whenever ... |
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- The zoning hearing board will soon wrestle with whether to allow a Shetland pony to remain at a Maple Point home. |
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- The Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez mob-comedy flop "Gigli" is the winner of six "Razzies" in the annual dishonorable-mention awards. |
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