 Fox News May 4, 2012: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, talks to Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.AP BEIJING – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday urged China to ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Subaru Announces PUMA® as New Team Sponsor for Three-car Global RallyCross ... Sacramento Bee By Subaru of America, Inc. CHERRY HILL, NJ, May 4, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Subaru of America, Inc. has announced the official sponsorship of sportslifestyle brand PUMA for the Subaru PUMA RallyCross Team. As part of the multi-year sponsorship agreement ... See all stories on this topic » |
May 4, 2012
LATEST World News, May 04, 2012
YAHOO News - Clinton applauds China allowing dissident to apply to study in U.S, May 04, 2012
"BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Friday blind dissident Chen Guangcheng could apply to study abroad, a move praised by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and suggesting an end may be near to a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Washington.
But rights activists sounded a note of caution over expectations of a quick way out for Chen, saying Beijing could be worried that appearing to be soft might embolden other challengers to Communist Party rule ahead of a power handover late this year."
info@als-alexander.org or interalex1@yahoo.comMODELS News, May 04, 2012
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| Vogue: Too-Skinny, Too-Young Models No Longer In Fox News Getty In an effort to project the image of healthy models, Vogue magazine is making a statement about its own models: Too-young and too-thin is no longer in. The 19 editors of Vogue magazines around the world made a pact to have healthy models on their ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Vogue bans too-skinny models from its pages CBS News NEW YORK — Vogue magazine, perhaps the world's top arbiter of style, is making a statement about its own models: Too young and too thin is no longer in. The 19 editors of Vogue magazines around the world made a pact to project the image of healthy ... See all stories on this topic » |
WIKILEAKS News, May 04, 2012
 Prensa Latina 04 de mayo de 2012, 10:48Quito, May 4 (Prensa Latina) Wikileaks revealed that in 2007, the United States supported banker Guillermo Lasso, currently the chief executive of the Bank of Guayaquil, to implement a structured plan to destabilize the ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Letter: Parallels in heroism between whistle-blowers Ellsberg, Manning TCPalm He reports on the talk given at Indian River State College by James Goodale regarding WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning and the First Amendment. I agree with Goodale First Amendment rights apply to WikiLeaks and Manning, the Uniform Code of Military Justice ... See all stories on this topic » |
UNITED NATIONS News, May 04, 2012
 Seattle Post Intelligencer (ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP/GettyImages) Photo: ABDELHAK SENNA, GettyImages / 2012 AFP A Malian refugge stands in front of an United Nations tent at Mbere refugee camp, near Bassiknou, southern Mauritania, near the border with Mali. See all stories on this topic » |
| Images: Adam Yauch with the Beastie Boys Chicago Daily Herald Associated Press file photo, 1994 Adam Yauch attends a special evening to honor artist Ross Bleckner's appointment as Goodwill Ambassador at theUnited Nations. Associated Press file photo, 2009 Beastie Boys Adam “MCA” Yauch, left, Adam “Adrock” ... See all stories on this topic » |
TORONTO STAR News, May 04, 2012
 CityNews The Toronto Star shot back Friday after one of its city hall reporters was questioned by police about a run-in with Mayor Rob Ford on Wednesday evening. The Star took a jab at Ford with an editorial cartoon that read: “Mayor chases, catches and eats ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Daniel Dale: The Toronto Star reporter who became the story Hamilton Spectator DANIEL DALE Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale addresses reporters outside 22 Division in Etobicoke after being interviewed by police on Thursday about his encounter the night before with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Rob Ford chased and confronted a Toronto ... See all stories on this topic » |
FRANCHISE News, May 04, 2012
MarketWatch (press release) DALLAS, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Fireman's Contractors, Inc. (OBB:FRCN) (otcqb:FRCN), a commercial contractor offering business-to-business commercial franchises and services in the pavement maintenance and parking lot maintenance ... See all stories on this topic » | |
| IslandTime Treasures Launches National Franchise Expansion Blue MauMau ... the founders are now awarding mobile unit and retail kiosk or cart franchiseopportunities to qualified individuals nationwide. While visiting their home states of North and South Dakota last year, franchising veteran Lonnie Helgerson and his wife ... See all stories on this topic » |
ARAB League News, May 04, 2012
 Reuters But with Russia firmly behind UN-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan to end the conflict between government forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and opposition fighters determined to oust him, Western powers have little choice ... See all stories on this topic » | |
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ASIA News, May 04, 2012
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| India Today Group Websites Touch a new Milestone, Gets 4th Rank Sacramento Bee As per the March 2012 report of comScore, The India Today Group websites were visited by 5.9 million internet users, all aged 15 years and above. The multi-dimensional India Today Group is one of the leading media groups in Asiathat publishes 37 ... See all stories on this topic » |
INTERNET News, May 04, 2012
 MarketWatch (press release) ... iPhone and iPad applications, which gives brokers and agents a distinct advantage in fielding leads. Agents can immediately respond to new leads, communicate and share content with them, and trigger RentJuice's convenientonline leasing process. See all stories on this topic » |
| Amazon's Kindle Fire sales fall as iPad lead grows San Francisco Chronicle CLOUD COMPUTING Dropbox pairs with Samsung Dropbox, a provider ofonline storage, is partnering with Samsung Electronics to preload its application on smart phones and tablets running Google's Android operating system. The app will come installed on ... See all stories on this topic » |
BEST Anything, May 04, 2012
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| NY's Best Cheap Eats Picked by Top Chefs BusinessWeek I asked chefs and restaurateurs from the US and around the world where they go for simple, inexpensive food. Here's what they had to say. April Bloomfield (Spotted Pig, New York): “Thai Son in Chinatown has great, inexpensive Vietnamese food. See all stories on this topic » |
EARTHQUAKE News, May 04, 2012
 Washington Examiner AP TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A moderate earthquake jolted a small town in western Iran near the Iraqi border on Thursday, injuring eight people and damaging buildings, Iranian media reported. The magnitude 5.5 quake hit the sparsely populated area near the ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Chile's Missing Beaches Return After Quake Discovery News After one of strongest earthquakes in history shook southern Chile and scourged the coastline with a tsunami on Feb. 27, 2010, many of the human-made structures were demolished. After years of being kept in check by seawalls, beach sand made a comeback ... See all stories on this topic » |
LOS ANGELES TIMES News, May 04, 2012
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ABC News, Australia, May 04, 2012
 The Age That came to light last month when the ABC's own complaints handling system found an ABC News Online report on the coal seam gas industry had made ''errors of judgment''. The complainant, industry body Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration ... See all stories on this topic » |
LIBYA News, May 04, 2012
 Chicago Tribune TUNIS (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's former prime minister, in jail in neighboring Tunisia, says the ousted Libyan leader funded French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign to the tune of 50 million euros ($66 million), according to his ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Belgium thinks Gaddafi laundered cash through embassy Reuters | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's family members may have used the Libyan embassy in Belgium to launder government funds before the country slid into civil war last year, a Belgian financial fraud watchdog said on Friday. See all stories on this topic » |
MONEY MORNING - The Fate of the Eurozone Hangs on Sunday's French Elections, May 04, 2012
"It now looks as though Nicolas Sarkozy's days are numbered. In the balance lies the fate of the Eurozone itself.
It appears Socialist Francois Hollande will win the French election runoff on Sunday and that June's legislative elections will give the Socialists a powerful position in France's parliament.
Added to these developments is the good chance that both the major existing parties in Greece's parliament, which had jointly agreed to the bailout deal, will be voted out of office on Sunday as well and replaced by a motley set of far-lefties.
" info@als-alexander.org or interalex1@yahoo.com
It appears Socialist Francois Hollande will win the French election runoff on Sunday and that June's legislative elections will give the Socialists a powerful position in France's parliament.
Added to these developments is the good chance that both the major existing parties in Greece's parliament, which had jointly agreed to the bailout deal, will be voted out of office on Sunday as well and replaced by a motley set of far-lefties.
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info@als-alexander.org or interalex1@yahoo.comSCIENTIFIC AMERICAN News, May 04, 2012
 Scientific American (blog) On my last post on pitching, regarding a throwaway paragraph on intelligent alien dinosaurs, a commenter and fellow Scientific American blogger did note that the author of that paper, Ron Breslow, is a very highly respected scientist, and wondered why ... See all stories on this topic » | |
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TIME Magazine News, May 04, 2012
 Huffington Post Rick Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, which won the coveted "Magazine of the Year" prize. NEW YORK -- NBC News anchor Brian Williams joked with attendees at Thursday night's National Magazine Awards dinner that given all the categories being ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Time Magazine Awards Christian Athletes High Honors: Tebow and Lin listed in ... Albany Times Union Deeper Calling Media is taking the lead in the online Christian booksellers recognition of two celebrated Christian athletes - Tim Tebow, and Jeremy Lin - both recently named to the prestigious TIME 100 “. Time magazine releases an annual recognition ... See all stories on this topic » |
FORBES News, May 04, 2012
 Forbes According to Forbes, GE was recognized as the top company in the globalHay Group survey for the third year in a row because of the way we develop leaders and promote innovation. “Respectfully, these blogs about GE seem based on outdated perceptions or ... See all stories on this topic » |
| iShares S and P Global Technology Sector Index Fund Experiences Big Outflow Forbes Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares S&PGlobal Technology Sector Index Fund (AMEX: IXN) where we have detected an approximate $17.3 million dollar ... See all stories on this topic » |
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC News, May 04, 2012
 National Geographic (Watch the Launch Live in Times Square on May 4th: http://bit.ly/theBluNYC) For example, I recently tweeted: Dearest ocean, I love it when I step into u sometimes u get all crazy and crash on top of me reminding me of who's really in charge. See all stories on this topic » |
| Top 10 Keynote Speakers to Motivate Your Sales Team Connectus.net (press release) Dan Buettner is an internationally recognized researcher, explorer, New York Times bestselling author and National Geographic Fellow. Buettner'sNational Geographic cover story on longevity, “The Secrets of Living Longer” was one of their top-selling ... See all stories on this topic » |
NBC News, May 04, 2012
 Mashable “This all-access, easy-to-navigate resource puts the full power of NBC News in your hands, from the top headlines and stories to innovative features that allow serious political junkies to dig even deeper.” For you political geography geeks out there, ... See all stories on this topic » | |
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