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A lesson in how to go a little further with our money

crazywire — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:06:06 +0000

Scotsman, United Kingdom - 6 hours agoWhen I was Scottish Education Minister, sometime late in the last century, I developed a very high regard for the Further Education sector, because of the …

'He was the nerdy, brainy kid in a very tough high school'
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 6 hours agoIain Dey reports. When Lloyd Blankfein applied for a job with Goldman Sachs in 1981, his application was turned down. A few months …

World Cup fever is bringing out a rash of tacky gizmos - but men …
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 6 hours ago… The fact is, when a bloke who would normally shirk at buying toilet roll and a pint of milk voluntarily gets out his credit card to spend 45 on an England …

A look at all 32 teams
China Daily, China - 2 hours ago… immediately. Outlook: If Costa Rica avoids a demoralizing rout in the first game, it could emerge from this group behind Germany. …

Mean Malinga on a mission
The Sunday Times, UK - 6 hours agoIT TAKES a special human being to outdo Kevin Pietersen in the haircut department. Lasith Slinger Malinga s round-arm bowling …

Carey was a gift from heaven
Unison.ie, Ireland - 2 hours agoONE of the most magical rides in hurling history has ended, but this is far from being a sad time. In fact, it's very much the opposite. …

After Years of Pain, Oakton's Season Finale Is a Pleasure
Washington Post, United States - 1 hour agoSophomore Ashley Kimener's goal with five seconds left was a little more than window dressing, Oakton's final strike in a Virginia girls' lacrosse state …

Physician Shortage Looms, Risking a Crisis, as Demand for Care …

crazywire — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:06:05 +0000

Los Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours ago… A looming doctor shortage threatens to create a national healthcare crisis by further limiting access to physicians, jeopardizing quality and accelerating cost …

Good fortune a fickle friend
Unison.ie, Ireland - 2 hours agoHAD Shane Horgan not done his impression of Dan Donnelly back in March, maybe there would be a different spin on this. But that …

Jamaica blown away by a high win in Manchester
Independent, UK - 5 hours agoBy Dan Murphy at Old Trafford. Old Trafford had a distinctly balmy end-of-term air yesterday. Football in this country was somehow …

In Peru, a Political Makeover Aids Ex-Leader's Election Bid
Washington Post, United States - 4 hours agoLIMA, Peru, June 3 — To overcome a political first act remembered by nearly all who saw it as an execrable horror show, Alan Garc a needed a plot twist, a …

A Plan for Mr. Paulson
Washington Post, United States - 2 hours agoPaulson Jr. is said to have extracted a promise that he will be more than just a salesman for policies devised in the White House. So …

Moreno Keeps DC On a Winning Roll
Washington Post, United States - 2 hours agoAfter a 5-1 thrashing of Kansas City Wednesday night, DC United Coach Peter Nowak insisted that May was no time for self-satisfaction. …

A recruiter in every house
Toronto Star, Canada - 49 minutes agoIn March 2004, a 16-year-old Spanish high school dropout helped provide 20 kilos of stolen explosives to Islamic terrorists who used it to bomb commuter trains …

England A 7 Scotland A 13: Danielli makes the Saxons suffer
Independent, UK - 5 hours agoScotland A gained pole position in the Canadian-based pool of the fourth Churchill Cup with a hard-earned opening win over the rebranded England Saxons on a …

Nationals Save a Blast For Last
Washington Post, United States - 1 hour ago… some resiliency. The Nationals showed it by winning three of four series after a sluggish start to the season, Robinson said. They …

Houston gets the boot, a la 2-nq
Houston Chronicle, United States - 4 hours ago… the NCAA Tournament. Houston finished 0-2 in the Norman Regional. Not a win. Not really much of a spark, either. So much for those …

Wildcats appear fully staffed for a title run

crazywire — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:06:03 +0000

Chicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours ago… With the possibility of having to play two games Sunday in the Women's College World Series, Northwestern coach Kate Drohan believes she has a slight advantage …

13 stabbings, one death. A typical night in knife-culture Scotland
Scotland on Sunday, UK - 7 hours agoIT WAS a terrifying way for a young life to end. A gang chased him into a dingy block of flats and knifed him to death. Locals in …

Missing tourists 'caught a bus'
The Australian, Australia - 5 hours agoA SEARCH for two tourists whose belongings were found with an unconscious man in a crashed car in southeast Queensland has been called off after it emerged …

A tall order
The Sunday Times, UK - 6 hours agoYou know it must be a happy story when Des Cahill is called in to do the gig. And how very happy everybody is looking in Limerick on Tuesday afternoon. …

Office's PDF publishing capabilities will be available in a free …
Ars Technica, MA - 2 hours ago… agreed that it would remove the publishing capabilities from Office out of the box, the company did hint at the idea of giving users a downloadable plug-in. …

Medicine 101: For Prior, a tear or a strain - you be the judge
San Jose Mercury News, USA - 10 hours agoBut the medical accuracy of Prior's public diagnosis of the tear in his right shoulder could qualify the Cubs' pitcher for a guest spot on "Grey's Anatomy.". …

A-listers snubbed for by-election
Independent, UK - 5 hours agoDavid Cameron's efforts to modernise the Conservative Party with an A-list of women and ethnic-minority candidates was dealt a blow last night when a Tory …

Joint Effort takes Dogwood BC by a length
ESPN - 5 hours ago… and when jockey Rene Douglas asked her at the quarter pole to overtake front-running Coronado's Vision and Joyful Rhapsody, the filly sped away to a one-length …

Author raises a storm about the handling of Hurricane Katrina

crazywire — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:06:02 +0000

Vindicator - Ivor van Heerden is angry. He is angry because years of warnings about the hurricane danger to New Orleans were largely ignored. He is angry because federal disaster planners dismissed his recovery proposals a year before Hurricane Katrina struck

New Treatment for Sinus Troubles
WISH-TV - A new treatment for sinus problems could mean no more medicine and no surgery. It’s a medical breakthrough being used here in Indiana called balloon sinuplasty and Dr. James Ulm is the first in the state to use this new device for sinus sufferers

Arizona wildfire evacuees go home
WISH-TV - SEDONA, Ariz. After two nights away from home, some Arizona wildfire evacuees say they’re “lucky to have a house.” A fast-moving wildfire chased about 200 people from home in a subdivision near Sedona on Thursday. Five buildings, including two houses

Organic Farming Becoming a Big Business
Vindicator - SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. (AP) Earthbound Farm’s fields of organic baby spinach and romaine lettuce are a living symbol of the organic food movement’s explosive growth in recent years. What started two decades ago as a three-acre roadside farm in

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A Fresh Start
Sun Chronicle - ATTLEBORO — Ask Henry Dargis what it’s like to be homeless, and he’ll give you the quick and the short of it. “ It’s hell,'’ Dargis said. Summers aren’t so bad, he said, but winters are miserable, especially when the snow piles up on tents and

PAID 2008>OBITUARY

crazywire — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:05:59 +0000

Daily News - Haydee HendrixWILMINGTON On May 31, 2006, Haydee Jeb Lee Hendrix, of Wilmington, N.C., passed from this world to her new life with Almighty God. She was born on Dec. 25, 1936, to John Paul Jeb Lee and Cleopatra Cowan Jeb Lee. She lived for 69

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War
On Milwaukee - Every child learns about America’s beginnings as the Pilgrims journeyed on the Mayflower. Nathaniel Philbrick takes a look at their trip and what resulted from their coming to America. Their story of survival in an unknown country was dramatic and

PACK IT IN
Boston Online - They are common sights at airports: Someone frantically transferring items from one bag to another in order to dodge a steep overweight baggage charge. International travelers sitting on suitcases, trying to get them closed after a customs

More than a fluke
Town Online - T ype the terms “Cape Ann” and “whale” into any search machine and you ll get a string of web pages about whale watches. That s the modern take on a tradition that goes back to the early days of Gloucester: Turning to the whales when times get

Isaac W. Morris
Kinston Free Press - KINSTON Isaac W. Dub Morris, 77, passed away Saturday, June 3, 2006, at Britthaven of Snow Hill. A native of Greene County, he was born Nov. 5, 1928, the son of the late Dewey and Lola Joyner Morris. Dub was a veteran of the United States

Double the fun
Independent Tribune - CONCORD - In bouncing back from Friday night s loss to Kannapolis, Stanly County doubled its pleasure. Stanly picked up a pair of Area III Southern Division victories Saturday, capped by an 11-7 win over Concord Post 51 at Webb Field. Stanly

More Desktops Stories
Computerworld - Some IT managers said Apple Computer s development of software that lets Windows XP run natively on Intel-based Macs will make its hardware more attractive as an alternative to PCs. But not everyone is sold on the Boot Camp technology. The Intel

Scrapping of Snowy sale 'a win' for backbenchers

crazywire — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:05:56 +0000

ABC Online, Australia - 3 hours agoThe political commentator with the Australian, Paul Kelly, says selling the Snowy Hydro scheme was never a priority of the Howard Government. …

Wilmington, NC, Revisits a Bloody 1898 Day and Reflects
New York Times, United States - 6 hours ago… "The Cape Fear River could be dammed up with black bodies, but we have no way of knowing just how many," said Lottie Clinton, a retired port supervisor and one …

A Topsy-Turvy Day at Shea Ends in a Loss for the Mets
New York Times, United States - 5 hours agoThings were turned upside down at Shea Stadium yesterday. After Friday night's rainout, the Mets and the San Francisco Giants engaged in a rare doubleheader. …

World Cup fever is bringing out a rash of tacky gizmos - but men …

crazywire — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:05:54 +0000

Scotsman, United Kingdom - 6 hours ago… The fact is, when a bloke who would normally shirk at buying toilet roll and a pint of milk voluntarily gets out his credit card to spend 45 on an England …

Can the Democrats Handle a Heretic?
TIME - 3 hours ago"Well, looking through this," Cochran says, riffling through a series of questions written on three-by-five cards, "there's one dominant theme. …

A frosty warning for oil sands firms
Reuters Canada, Canada - 4 hours ago… (WTO.TO: Quote), didn't get a favorable reaction when it announced this week it would spend $45 million over four years exploring for oil in northern Iraq. …

Supporting Our Troops Over a Cliff

crazywire — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:05:53 +0000

New York Times, United States - 6 hours ago… We've even been rewarded with a prize that past generations would have found as jaw-dropping as space travel: a wartime dividend in the form of tax cuts. …

Hewitt serves up a treat to terminate the Dominator
Independent, UK - 5 hours agoBy Ronald Atkin, Tennis Correspondent. If you are an Australian athlete, a piddling thing like ankle damage is no reason for not putting yourself on the line. …

England Saxons 7 Scotland A 13: Saxons pay the price
The Sunday Times, UK - 6 hours agoTHE first appearance of the England Saxons ended in tears when the new-fangled A side were given a lesson in wet weather rugby by Scotland A in the opening …

A recruiter in every house
Toronto Star, Canada - 48 minutes agoIn March 2004, a 16-year-old Spanish high school dropout helped provide 20 kilos of stolen explosives to Islamic terrorists who used it to bomb commuter trains …

A third more babies left in full-time care
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 7 hours agoBy Julie Henry, Education Correspondent. A record number of babies and toddlers are being looked after full-time in nurseries, Government figures reveal. …

Diocese Appoints New Pastor to a Church Shaken by Scandal

crazywire — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:05:51 +0000

New York Times, United States - 3 hours agoThe Bridgeport Diocese announced yesterday that a priest with experience in helping troubled parishes was appointed the new pastor of St. …

Prufrock: Mellon makes a move on Man

crazywire — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:05:49 +0000

The Sunday Times, UK - 7 hours agoMellon, whose eclectic mix of assets includes Charlemagne, the recently listed hedge fund, and China s biggest copper mine, has for years been a tax exile on …