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Make a big day of it in Australia (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - Big Day Out PERTH Feb. 5 This year's edition of the massive festival tour (think Lollapalooza times 10) features Franz Ferdinand, the White Stripes, Iggy and the Stooges, the Magic Numbers, the Go! Team, and Henry Rollins. What began in 1992 as a... Advertisement |
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Fast-moving friendship (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - The king of Thailand was born in Cambridge, and when he grew up, played the sax well enough to be commended by another monarch, Benny Goodman, the King of Swing. Read More... Source: Boston Globe -- Travel News Advertisement |
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Democrats to woo voters on wage issue (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - WASHINGTON -- New Year's Day will bring the ninth straight year in which the federal minimum wage has remained frozen at $5.15 an hour, marking the second-longest period that the nation has had a stagnant minimum wage since the standard was... Advertisement |
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Iraq vets give taste of war (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - CAMP SHELBY, Miss. -- Sergeant Eric Maples stands in the back of the Humvee as it rumbles along the gravel road. The 32-year-old Tennessee guardsman, who returned from convoy duty in Iraq in November, holds Specialist John Currid by the waist as the... Advertisement |
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Improved tracking sought for flu shots (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - Hospitals and clinics across New England have returned thousands of unused flu shots this month -- the latest evidence of a gulf between supply and demand that specialists said jeopardizes the public's health and illustrates the need to better track... Advertisement |
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From worker to owner (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - CLINTON -- Nypro Inc., a plastics company owned by its US workers, has operated offshore for three decades, building dozens of plants in 17 foreign countries. Now, the firm is taking globalization a step further by making its foreign workers owners,... Advertisement |
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Argentina Brunetti, film, TV actress, 98 (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - LOS ANGELES -- Argentina Brunetti, a veteran character actress who played multiethnic roles in films and on television for more than 50 years, including the Italian immigrant Mrs. Martini in Frank Capra's classic ''It's a Wonderful Life," has died.... Advertisement |
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Slow rebirth comes to a wounded land (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - LEUGEU, Indonesia -- In a small village bordered by bright green fields of rice, several hundred people gathered outside Cut Dian's home for her wedding feast earlier this month. Dian's parents, her five siblings, and more than 50 other relatives... Advertisement |
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Paul Williams, led mountain rescues (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - LOS ANGELES -- Paul Williams, a Pacific Northwest climber who responded to the increasing popularity of mountain climbing in the 1950s by helping to establish a national network of mountain rescue volunteers, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure... Advertisement |
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Constituting Israel (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - A week ago, when the news went out that Ariel Sharon had been rushed to a Jerusalem hospital, after suffering a minor stroke, many Israelis probably felt their own hearts skip a beat. Read More... Source: Boston Globe -- Ideas Section Advertisement |
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Nevermind Euclid, here's the cubists (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - LIKE MANY modern movements in the arts, cubism was first met with ridicule. The lines were skewed, the dimensions off, the effect boxy-or, as the insult ran, ''cubist." In the intervening near-century viewers have radically readjusted their gazes.... Advertisement |
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Hussein's remains (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - IF SADDAM HUSSEIN is found guilty of crimes against humanity and is executed, what will become of his remains? Writing in the current issue of the Washington-based journal Policy Review, Victorino Matus, an editor at the Weekly Standard, argues that... Advertisement |
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Faith and reason (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - SCIENCE, CAPITALISM, and democracy are all enormously complicated areas of human activity, but sociologist Rodney Stark claims there is a simple explanation for them: Christianity. ''The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes... Advertisement |
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Ready to Roomba? (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - RELEASING THE Scooba Floor Washing Robot earlier this year apparently wasn't good enough for iRobot Corp., the Burlington tech-design firm founded by MIT robotics engineers. The folks at iRobot have also transformed their self-guiding, vacuum-cleaning... Advertisement |
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Play it smart (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - SOME CRITICS have suggested that the bright visions that once animated progressive politics may be dwindling because the imagination itself is now stunted during childhood-as kids' unstructured outdoor playtime is displaced not only by organized... Advertisement |
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On the beach (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - FOR THOSE whose image of Australia involves alabaster-skinned actresses, braying reptile-handlers, and sun-soaked hedonism, recent news from the Antipodes has been profoundly jarring. Read More... Source: Boston Globe -- Ideas Section Advertisement |
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Emission control (Dec 25 2005 11:19 GMT) - ON WEDNESDAY, when Governor Mitt Romney pulled Massachusetts out of a pioneering pact to limit the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants in nine Northeastern states, many of the pact's supporters, a group comprising not only environmentalists and... Advertisement |
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An exercise in video games at YMCA (Dec 25 2005 11:18 GMT) - At the new YMCA in East Boston, fourth-grader Tiara Gonzalez and classmate Juan Pablo Quintero were facing off on a video game that even a parent could love. Read More... Source: Boston Globe -- Education Advertisement |
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Acquitted teacher to be paid until '07 (Dec 25 2005 11:18 GMT) - Norman Swerling, the driver education teacher who was acquitted in July of sexually assaulting one of his students, took a buyout package that keeps him on the Newton payroll until 2007, according to a copy of the settlement obtained by the Globe.... Advertisement |
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A college coach comes back to high school roots (Dec 25 2005 11:18 GMT) - Chris Serino was expecting the question: Why would he leave Merrimack College, a Division 1 college hockey program, to coach at Malden Catholic, a fading high school power? When Malden Catholic's search committee posed the query, Serino's answer, like... Advertisement |
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Be sure you know the rules about gift cards (Dec 25 2005 11:17 GMT) - Be sure you know the rules about gift cards Kingsport Times News, TN - Dec 22, 2005 fees in response to customer complaints, it’s still a good idea to become familiar with individual retailers’ policies before making a gift card purchase. Over half a million Atlantic Canadians to spend $192 million [...] |
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