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Feb 18, 2012

OPINIONS, Feb 18, 2012


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Pakistan and Osama bin Laden
Washington Post
With Pakistan's civilian government and judiciary showing renewed signs of life, it's time for them to ask the question the country has been avoiding for nine months: How did Osama bin Laden, the world's leading terrorist, hide out in a military ...
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Australia asks _ again: Did a dingo kill the baby?
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
AP | Posted: Saturday, February 18, 2012 6:54 am | (0) Comments FILE -- In this Feb. 2, 1982, file photo, Michael and Lindy Chamberlain leave Alice Springs courthouse. The Northern Territory coroner is opening a fourth inquest on Friday, Feb.
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Australia asks _ again: Did a dingo kill the baby?
Chippewa Herald
AP | Posted: Saturday, February 18, 2012 6:54 am | (0) Comments FILE -- In this Feb. 2, 1982, file photo, Michael and Lindy Chamberlain leave Alice Springs courthouse. The Northern Territory coroner is opening a fourth inquest on Friday, Feb.
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WWE Elimination Chamber: Why Santino in the Chamber Might Not Be so Bad
Bleacher Report
Last night on SmackDown, the world witnessed something shocking that has split fans opinions down the middle. Santino Marella, the drag-wearing, accent-exaggerating goofball who has been making us laugh as well as groan ever since the Miracle in Milan, ...
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ManpowerGroup President of Americas Explains How Human Age Forces Are ...
Sacramento Bee
ManpowerGroup is the world leader in innovative workforce solutions. Prising addressed The Economist's Human Capital Breakfast in Los Angeles, California, explaining that the world is adjusting to a new ecosystem, identified by ManpowerGroup as the ...
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Tribalism for tribalism is just tribalism
Sudan Tribune
The petition letter was written by a few colleagues who are entitled to theirviews, most of whom live outside the country. In that regard, we would like to acknowledge that the letter should be treated as thoughts of a few individuals within us.
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Hunt Previews Kent Conrad Interview
Washington Post
Post Forum members consistently offer thought-provoking, timelycomments on politics, national and international affairs. Weather Watchers consistently offer thought-provoking, timely comments on climates and forecasts. World Watchers consistently ...
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H5N1 Influenza Researchers Meet, Trying to Break Impasse
Medscape
February 17, 2012 — A group of 22 experts from around the worldengaged in "wide-ranging" and "intense" discussions on February 16 and 17 in Geneva, Switzerland, on whether and how to disseminate controversial research on H5N1 influenza.
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Buster Olney's Eye-Opening Statement on the Miami Marlins
Marlin Maniac
While many of his comments have been positive toward the organization, his latest might have been the most powerful yet. In response to a fan's tweet about the Reality Show “The Franchise” coming to Miami, Olney made this statement: “The Marlins are ...
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Marlin Maniac
Come back, Garvey, all is forgiven
Jamaica Observer
They are vociferous in their views and are not afraid to use the letter pages of our newspapers to suggest that the society should deny ancestral pride to our first National Hero by forgetting about Garvey's teachings. Full blame, it seems to me, ...
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Jamaica Observer
WHO Meeting of Flu Experts Calls for Full Publication of Controversial H5N1 Papers
Science Now
by Jon Cohen on 17 February 2012, 7:48 PM | 0 Comments A group of 22 international influenza experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that journals should publish the full details of two controversial experiments with the ...
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Babson College Startups Supported in Undergraduate & MBA Hatcheries
Sacramento Bee
About BabsonBabson College is the educator, convener, and thoughtleader for Entrepreneurship of All Kinds(r). The College is a dynamic living and learning laboratory, where students, faculty, and staff work together to address the real-world problems ...
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'The dingo's got my baby!'
Independent Online
To the rest of the world, the case is largely known for its place in pop culture: countless books, an opera, the Meryl Streep movie “A Cry in the Dark,” and the sitcom Seinfeld's spoof of Lindy's cry, “Maybe the dingo ate your baby!
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Independent Online
What they said: take one... and take two
Taranaki Daily News
You thought the last three years was fun, just you wait. This term will be funner and more fulsome. It's no lie I have my critics but the poorer we would all be without them. Balance of opinions is what it's all about, but this term, those asset sales ...
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Taranaki Daily News
WWE/TNA: My Top 10 Moments of the Week (Feb. 12-17)
Bleacher Report
Giving him the belt would be a real “feel good” moment and would show that everyone in WWE really does have a chance to be world champion. Ithought this was a good match that saw some nice back-and-forth action and kept a good pace throughout.
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Searching of Truth ~ Smiles and Inspiration and more.... 02/18/12
Gather.com
Take some time out and listen to people and their discussions of issues and their opinion of just about anything. They have so much conviction in their speech that you almost can believe either one with oppositeopinions. The mark of a great debater is ...
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Their View: Intended Komen column gets sidetracked
Las Cruces Sun-News
Then it turned into a birth control crisis, which is where Komen became controversial in the first place, manifesting untoward political opinionsabout Planned Parenthood in the health care realm. And when the punditry stepped in — Fox News in ...
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And Now for Something Completely Indifferent
Huffington Post (blog)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. I'm no Buddhist. (Then again, neither was the Buddha.) ...
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Tinkering won't save lives
The Telegram
The solution is known to everyone in and out of Labrador who mourn lives needlessly lost, to the hundreds who gather to commemorate young Burton in communities throughout the province and to the thousands who are expressing their opinions online: ...
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The High Bench vs. the Ivory Tower
ABA Journal
By Richard Brust Searching for the proper understanding of a refined issue of bankruptcy law, Judge Thomas L. Ambro discovered his saving grace in a 1998 law review article. “I felt I had found my Rosetta Stone,” wrote Ambro of the 3rd US Circuit Court ...
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ABA Journal
Mylan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette settle lawsuits
Sacramento Bee
AP PITTSBURGH -- Generic-drug company Mylan and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced Friday they have settled two lawsuits stemming from a series of stories that prompted a US Food and Drug Administrationreview. The lawsuits were filed by Mylan Inc.
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UBM Medica's Psychiatric Times Features Special Coverage of Sleep Disorders in...
Sacramento Bee
Chronic sleep problems are thought to affect up to 80 percent of Americans with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and panic attacks. By comparison, fewer than 20 percent of adults in general public have ...
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There's no eliminating drug use
St. Albert Gazette
Some years later as a lawyer I had to review the transcript of a court martial from our army in Germany – the barracks scene depicted sounded pretty much what the airman had described earlier. My professional involvement with the world of drugs began ...
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CEO Gaffe of the Week: Energy Conversion Devices
Motley Fool
Having come across more than a handful of questionable executive decisions last year when compiling my list of the Worst CEOs of 2011, Ithought it could be a learning experience for all of us if I pointed out apparent gaffes as they occur.
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Jamie Samuelsen's blog: Tigers should stay in-house for No. 5 starter, but it ...
Detroit Free Press
His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Detroit Free Press nor its writers. You can reach him at jamsam22@gmail.com, follow him on Twitter @jamiesamuelsen and read more of his opinions at freep.com/jamie. Would you feel more confident with ...
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Longer Read: China grapples with NBA star Jeremy Lin's race
The Province
14, American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. posted a thought on Twitter about Jeremy Lin, the Taiwanese-American basketball sensation who has become the most compelling story for the National Basketball Association this season. He wrote: “Jeremy Lin is a ...
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BioNitrogen Reports on Financial Advantages of Building Smaller Modular Urea ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The world needs over 150 billion tons of fertilizer annually; this places BioNitrogen in the right marketplace at the right time." BioNitrogen's plant designs are the result of over 20 years of development and research from Dr. Terry Collins, ...
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TNA Impact Wrestling: Roode vs. Hardy, Brandon Jacobs, Madison Rayne and More
Bleacher Report
Jeff Hardy: No DQ Match for the World Championship Bobby Roode picked up the victory with a spear after Kurt Angle attacked Jeff Hardy outside the ring. I thought this was an entertaining match. Hardy controlled most of it and it made it seem like he ...
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Bleacher Report
Friday, February 17 2012 08:38 PM
Press News
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The world according Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney: Europeans are socialists. The Chinese are currency manipulators. Russia can't be trusted to abide by nuclear agreements. The Palestinians are out to destroy Israel ...
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A doubletake on Erdogan's doubletalk
MidEastYouth.com
For example, as the United States preaches about how lovely freedom and democracy are and how important they are to the US, one merely has to say the word “Afghanistan”, before the world's collective conscience puts its hands on its hips and goes “Oh ...
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I'm An Educator, So Don't Believe Me
Care2.com (blog)
Whose opinions should our students believe? What should be our real commitment to them as educators? Regardless of what I've come to believe myself through reading, research, thought, dialogue, and, when possible, first-hand experience, ...
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The Promise of Progress for General Motors
Motley Fool
But a fourth-quarter miss on weakness in Europe weighed -- or so one might have thought. The good news ran pretty deep: GM's products are strong and getting stronger, the current management team exudes competence, and its sales in key markets are up, ...
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Moved by the sight of poverty, gems to raise funds for charity
Kilkenny People
I thought that it would be a nice thing to do. But my life schedule with work and hurling, where I could be playing up to December with club championships just wouldn't allow my travelling. “But then a few months ago, Liam Mullen - I know Liam very ...
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UFOs and the Paranormal with Malcolm Robinson: UFOs... some personal experiences
Hastings Observer
Each one of us had our own opinions as to what this might be. Some said that it must be a weather balloon, we had heard about weather balloons but neither I nor my friends had ever seen one. We then thoughtthat perhaps it could have been a child's toy ...
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Should we treat grief like depression?
WANE
Grief is not an illness; it is more usefully thought of as a part of being human and a normal response to death of a loved one. Putting a time frame on grief is inappropriate -- DSM-V ... please take note." Hard not to agree. But consider the following ...
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Nikki Gil: I'm not changing image
Philippine Star
It had gotten too personal, I think the Internet made the world think small, or too close (for comfort), you hear opinions you couldn't care less about, but you still hear them, and you get affected already. “At some point, I would go home crying, ...
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Birth-Control Hearing Was 'Like Stepping Into a Time Machine'
ABC News (blog)
“It's a picture that says a thousand words, and it's one that most women thought was left behind when pictures only came in black and white.” The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the contraceptive coverage rule called an ...
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ABC News (blog)
The Internet – A 'Playground' for the Sociologist
LiveScience.com
I thought that taking "time off" was personally a good choice, but I came to that decision after looking around at people who I thought well of and inquiring with them, rather than taking unsolicited advice. So the best advice I can give is, ...
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It's Time: Yes, I'm Gay, and I'm Unapologetic
Huffington Post (blog)
I thought, "Had all my personal hell and pain in silence been for nothing?" I mean, my entire belief system wanted rejection and ostracism; it's what I deserved for being "wrong." After all, I fought for 22 years by myself and tried two years of ...
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A sad day to be Malaysians and Muslims
Aliran Monthly
... in enabling the deportation, Mr Kashragi now faces the possibility of the death penalty in his home country of Saudi Arabia for the simple act of demanding his right to practise the most basic human rights – freedom of expression andthought.
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Aliran Monthly
Alma College to present 'The Crucible'
The Morning Sun
How should I view things happening in the world today?'” Brown says about her portrayal of Mary Warren, one of girls who accuses Proctor and other Salem residents of being in league with the devil. It's the timeless quality of “The Crucible” that ...
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Jamie Samuelsen's blog: Tigers should stay in-house for No. 5 starter, but it ...
Detroit Free Press
His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Detroit Free Press nor its writers. You can reach him at jamsam22@gmail.com, follow him on Twitter @jamiesamuelsen and read more of his opinions at freep.com/jamie. Would you feel more confident with ...
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Their View: Intended Komen column gets sidetracked
Silver City Sun News
Then it turned into a birth control crisis, which is where Komen became controversial in the first place, manifesting untoward political opinionsabout Planned Parenthood in the health care realm. And when the punditry stepped in — Fox News in ...
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Greece adds to austerity, seeks to close in on EU bailout
Calgary Herald
Even if Greece secures its second bailout since 2010, officials say there is a growing body of opinion within the euro zone that a new bailout may not solve its problems. "Honestly speaking, we are thinking about emergency planning if something ...
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Like A Boss: Springsteen Says US Needs to Be More Like Sweden
Big Hollywood
You're reading way too much into a comedy show Too bad these has been singers and actors never learned to keep their opinions to themselves!!! You're NOT THE BOSS anymore, so STFU!!! wouldn't get work save for the communists paying him with our ...
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NEW YORK News, Feb 18, 2012

A model walks the runway at the BetseyBetsey Johnson: Her usual too-too and tutus
Newsday
Fashion and Shopping Newsday > Lifestyle > Fashion and ShoppingTalk of the Tents New York Fashion Week photos, live blogging, runway highlights and celebrities. Content Preview Newsday 7 day/Optimum Online ® subscribers click here for full access Not ...
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Verizon Invested More Than $1.5 Billion in New York's Wireline Communications ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Annually one of the largest investors in New York's economy and infrastructure, Verizon continued to bring communications and computing innovation to the state's consumers and businesses in 2011.
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Mixing fashion and motherhood: Moms on the runway
WIS
AP Entertainment News Video More>> AP Showbiz Minute: Whitney Houston funeral AP Interview: Jolie says directing inspired her By LEANNE ITALIE AP NEW YORK (AP) - Forget the usual vacant model stare. It was smiles and high fives with Iman as real moms ...
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Kelly: Jeremy Lin the gold standard for sports economic survival
Toronto Star
Now he's the NBA's hottest seller VIDEO: Jeremy Lin's religious pregame ritual For Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks, erasing a history of being overlooked Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks creating an international Lin-sation Jeremy Lin is in demand ...
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Empire State Building and ColinCowieWeddings.com Make a Perfect Match for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Empire State Building (ESB) and ColinCowieWeddings.com (CCW) today announced winners of the annual Valentine's Day Weddings Event, held at the iconic landmark on Tuesday, February 14th.
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KeepTree.com Gets F.A.B-ulous for NYC Fashion Week
SunHerald.com
NEW YORK -- KeepTree.com, the creators of the unique web-based video messaging, archiving, and future delivery service, KeepTree.com, have announced their participation in 2012 Fashion Week's exclusive Fashion Art and Beauty (FAB) Event to take place ...
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The Quick and Dirty Guide to Tumblr for Small Business
Mashable
“Blogging” no longer evokes a visual of someone sitting in a coffee shop writing aboutlife all day. With the 140-character limit on Twitter, we've lost our attention span for 1000-word musings. We want simple, palatable content in many different forms ...
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DVD/Blu-Ray review: The Rum Diary
Examiner.com
The seven day cycle has rolled around once again and new release Tuesday is at our doorstep once again to bring the latest and greatest new releases from Hollywood and elsewhere to the video stores all across the city of Toronto.
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Interactive One Launches BlackPlanet Next, a New Social Experience That Will ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Interactive One, the largest digital media company serving Black Americans, announced today the launch of BlackPlanet Next, the next evolution of the iconic BlackPlanet.com social networking website.
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Verizon Invested Nearly $608 Million in Its Wireline Communications
Citybizlist (press release)
"From the smallest home to the largest business, Verizon's networks and technology touch lives by enabling commerce to thrive, businesses to innovate, students to learn and people to stay connected." "No other company is as interwoven with daily life ...
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Samsonite Man: Catching Up With Jin In Hong Kong, Talks Career, Gimmick Stigma ...
HipHopDX
by Alex Dwyer HipHopDX's Alex Dwyer caught up with the former Ruff Ryders sensation about his decision to leave New York for China, making Christian Hip Hop, and the moving target life of being a battle emcee. “I remember the first time I heard it, ...
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Entertainment listings
Vancouver Sun
"Intimate Apparel The play is set in New York City in 1905 and concerns a young African-American woman who travels to New York to pursue her dreams. Company . Granville Island Stage . To March 10 . $29-$49, 604-687-1644, artsclub.com "The Trouble with ...
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Sheridan grad's band on the rise
McMinnville News-Register
Sheridan-native Keenan Mitchell's Oregon roots are tattooed on his body, but it's New York City that has given birth to the rising star in the indie rock world. By Ossie Bladine The Brooklyn-based band Fort Lean is on a lot of people's list of bands to ...
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Guest Blog From NYFW Show Attendee
Cincinnati.com (blog)
She got to go to New York Fashion Week this year and attend two incredible shows: Vera Wang and Badgley Mischka. But I'm lucky too because she offered to write a guest blog to tell us all about her amazing experience and give us insight into what she ...
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Cincinnati.com (blog)
Verizon Invested More Than $725 Million in Virginia's Wireline Communications ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"No other company is as interwoven with daily life in Virginia. And few other companies invest in Virginia like Verizon, providing an engine for economic growth through our aggressive network and IT deployment," said Fulton.
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Verizon Invested More Than $639 Million in California's Wireline ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"This borderless lifestyle benefits our customers, employees, suppliers and communities." Continued deployment of the company's award-winning, 100 percent fiber-optic FiOS TV and FiOS Internet services. In 2011, Verizon extended FiOS service to more ...
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The PlayStation Vita: The Kotaku Review
Kotaku Australia
I watched this happen on flight from Las Vegas to New York. The boy was in an aisle seat, across and one row up from my own aisle seat. He had an iPad. Everyone had an iPad. To my left, in a sign of the machine's borderless ubiquity, there sat a man ...
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Sugar police on the prowl
Washington Times
New York City's Department of Health has funded a 30-second TV commercial called “Don't drink yourself fat,” featuring a man gulping gobs of fat from a soda can. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health features a short video on its website ...
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Washington Times
Taxi Embraces Sweden in Gevalia Campaign
Adweek
The push began with an online video in which Johan talks lovingly about the Swedishlifestyle of swimming in arctic waters, special massages and "taking time out to enjoy ourselves with fika." Without explaining that fika means coffee break in Swedish, ...
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Should suburban universities be redeveloped?
Crikey (blog)
In terms of its contribution to New York's urban life, an island seems an appropriate metaphor. Steven Smith at Forbes reckons it's a “fairly Corbusian plan, replete with lots of concrete plazas and grassy knolls …..and no retail space in sight”.
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Does PETA ad featuring a young, pantsless woman in neckbrace promote veganism ...
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
But their latest ad, a Valentine's Day video that warns women about the "dangers" of their boyfriends' burgeoning veganism, may have crossed a line. The ad, released online Monday, shows a limping, pantsless woman sporting a neckbrace, struggling to ...
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Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
Meredith's CEO Hosts Analyst Meeting (Transcript)
Seeking Alpha
Several people asked me this morning if Rachael Ray was going to be with us, we were really afraid to have her here, because we thought she steal the whole show, but she is a lot of fun to work with and we are having a good time with that new business.
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Toronto Film Festival Announces Complete Lineup
Cinespect
“When a serial killer escapes from prison, he pursues his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.” Gregg Araki's Kaboom. “Smith's everyday life in the dorm – hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, ...
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Business roundup
Salisbury Post
While Kroger is an attractive business, its size may make buyers hesitant to do a deal that large as the industry faces increasing challenges and competition from unconventional food retailers, according to Edward Kelly, aNew York-based analyst at ...
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Salisbury Post
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NEW YORK Fashion News, Feb 18, 2012


London takes over fashion spotlight from New York
cbs4qc.com
AP National News Video More>> Pa. judge rejects AG's request for out-of-county jury, says Sandusky can see grandkids More>> By GREGORY KATZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) - London Fashion Week kicked off with a splash of color, a touch of fall and a dose ...
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MUSIC, Singers, Concerts News, Feb 18, 2012


Taking flight in song
Boston.com
With Lane's guidance, Higgins painstakingly pieced together her first song nearly a decade ago and today is not only stillsinging and writing, but also acting in theatrical productions around her Greenfield home. Yet, these artistic endeavors are not ...
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