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- British government is facing legal action over alleged plans to cut the pensions of Gurkhas by sacking them three years before they are due to leave 4 Vote(s) |
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Ooh, Santa! (Dec 17 2007 05:00 GMT) - When most people think of Santa Claus, they think of words like "jolly", "mysterious", " |
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- I often wondered what Isaac Newton's reaction would have been if someone discovered Hubble's law and the the expanding universe in his time. My guess is that he would have worked it out as follows. Consider identical galaxies homogeneously and isotropically spread throughout a large piece of |
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- One Spartanburg County school has two dozen registered sex offenders living within a one-mile radius. Others have none. Offender databases and mapping systems have made it easier than ever to identify where sex offenders live, but both civil libertarians and police say, don?t rely on them to keep your children safe. |
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- Kevin Eugene Sarratt, 44, of Gaffney died Saturday after riding his bicycle into the path of another vehicle, according to the Cherokee County Coroner?s Office. |
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- In a week?s time, organizers say at least 115 students officially have enrolled to attend the Jonesville-Lockhart Charter School. They expect interest to continue. |
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- Dozens of dusty wooden doors, originals from the circa 1900 building, are stacked together in a third-floor corner of the Cleveland Law Range at 175 Magnolia St., and in another corner rest five of the building?s original mantels. |
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- All Wofford College students will have the opportunity of living in village-style apartments when construction on the third phase is completed next year. |
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- Ivan Victorovich Napchnik, 25, of Inman has been charged with assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct. Napchnik allegedly followed a 27-year-old female into the women?s restroom at a truck stop on Highway 292 and asked her if she wanted to have sex. She declined, but he waited for her outside the restroom and, when she tried to... |
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- You could literally hear a pin drop in between Frederica von Stade 's pauses as the famed mezzo soprano (above) wowed the 150 attendees at a gala to raise more than $400,000 for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's music program. Among those wearing their finest black-tie attire and skipping around the snowbanks and puddles along the Fenway were former Citigroup ... |
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- Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein married British designer Georgina Chapman at his waterfront Westport, Conn., estate Saturday night before a star-studded crowd that included Jennifer Lopez and her hubby, Marc Anthony , Cameron Diaz , Renee Zellweger , and Naomi Watts - and topped it off with a grand fireworks display. Attendees from media to finance also included Rupert Murdoch , ... |
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