Sports Briefs - Owen Sound Sun Times

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Sports Briefs - Owen Sound Sun Times
The Owen Sound Firehawks will play host to the Western Ontario Baseball Association midget championship on Aug. 18 and will face the defending champion Kincardine Cardinals. Owen Sound went 3-0 on the weekend in the WOBA tournament, but Saturday’s
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UK July CPI inflation soars to 4.4 percent, highest since April 1992 - CNBC
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - UK annual inflation rose to more than twice the Bank of England’s official target during July, driven by the soaring cost of food, petrol and utility bills, official figures showed. The Office for National Statistics said
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TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Macroeconomics highlights to 10:10 BST - Forbes

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Macroeconomics highlights to 10:10 BST - Forbes

TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Macroeconomics highlights to 10:10 BST
Forbes, NY - 28 minutes ago
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MOVIE NEWS AND NOTES Herzog film is no cute-penguin outing - Detroit Free Press

MOVIE NEWS AND NOTES Herzog film is no cute-penguin outing
Detroit Free Press, United States - 3 hours ago
Answer questions in the twisted trivia contest and organizers promise that you'll go home with a new brain. The other titles in the series: "Castle of

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68 dead in temple stampede in north India - police - Forbes

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

68 dead in temple stampede in north India - police - Forbes
SHIMLA, India (Thomson Financial) - At least 68 Hindu worshippers, nearly half of them children, were killed Sunday in a stampede during a religious festival in the northern Indian hill state of Himachal Pradesh, police said. The accident took place
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UK media regulator Ofcom publishes new TV advertising code - Forbes

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

UK media regulator Ofcom publishes new TV advertising code - Forbes
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - UK media regulator Ofcom has published a shorter and simpler code on the scheduling of television advertisements. Changes in the code include removing rules requiring a 20-minute interval between advertising breaks within
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THE COLORS OF VIOLENCE Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict - Indolink
In The Colors of Violence, Sudhir Kakar, visiting professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, focuses on the psychodynamics of religious riots between the Hindus and Muslims in India. Dr. Kakar, a psychiatrist in New Delhi, notes that his
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National News from AP: Headlines - Ledger Independent

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

National News from AP: Headlines - Ledger Independent
CHICAGO - Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush’s program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and _ in a move sure to cause
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Man storms China police station, stabs 5 officers - Houston Chronicle
BEIJING — Shanghai authorities say a man stormed into a police station and stabbed five officers to death. The Shanghai public security bureau says in a news release that the 28-year-old man rushed into the building Tuesday morning after setting a
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UPDATE CIT sells home lending ops to Lone Star Funds for $5.9 billion - CNBC
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - CIT Group Inc. said on Tuesday it has agreed to sell its home lending operations to Lone Star Funds for $1.5 billion, plus the assumption of $4.4 billion in debt and other related liabilities. The company said it was also
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