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- Foreclosures raise health concerns (Boston Globe)
Half-full with water turned green by algae and surrounded by knee-high grass, the kiddie pool behind the foreclosed house on Bank Street provides the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. Such properties are a growing concern for health agent Michelle Roberts. "It's starting to become a real problem," Roberts said last week of the town's 10 or so foreclosed and ...
- Cancer survivor to lecture, discuss book at Shawnee university (The Oklahoman)
SHAWNEE — Attorney and cancer survivor Jim Chastain will give a lecture at 7 p.m. today at St. Gregory's University, 1900 W MacArthur. Chastain is a writer, film critic and attorney for the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. The theme for his lecture is "When bad things happen to good writers.†He also will talk about his book, "I Survived Cancer, but Never Won the Tour de France.†Chastain ...
- Hitmaker from the '70s and '80s finds new fans - Grand Rapids Press
Don't nobody worry about Kenny Loggins. He's doing all right. The singer-songwriter's tunes may no longer get the radio airplay they did back in the '80s -- when he was the undisputed king of soundtracks thanks to hits from such movies as ...
- Indonesia plans to ban bikini in Bali - News.com.au
FIRST it was the Bali bombers, now it is law-makers in faraway Jakarta that threaten to drive Aussies from the resort island. Bikini-clad tourists may have to cover up if a law is passed across Indonesia. The Bill is designed to define pornography ...
- US Poets Roethke, Williams Go Online in Rare Audio Recordings - Bloomberg
US Poets Roethke, Williams Go Online in Rare Audio RecordingsBloomberg - 23 minutes ago16 (Bloomberg) -- Britain's Poetry Archive today added rare audio recordings of 14 major American poets of the 20th century, including Theodore Roethke, ...
- Technologicology: The IgnitePhilly Highlight Reel - Philebrity.com
I knew good things were in store for IgnitePhilly when I went to Johnny Brenda’s last week and had trouble finding a parking spot—for my bike. Inside, as bartenders poured drafts in a seemingly endless conveyor of what-will-be-drunkenness ...
- Mad Men - Chicago Tribune
My friends, I've just gone through my 2008 datebook. I keep a very detailed planner, including what I saw and/or did and with whom I saw and/or did it. This will all come in handy when I write my scandalous, tell-all autobiography -- and, yes, some ...
- No justice for victims of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel)
#8220;Let's go down to the cities to kill the scumbags. #8221; - From the poetry of accused war criminal and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
- Books for fall, the real reading season - Boston Globe
What's with all those summer reading lists? You'd think no one ever picked up a book at any other time of year. Well, summer is gone in a blink around these parts and, besides, this isn't exactly a beach-read kind of town. So here's a radical idea ...
- Manscaping Monologues (AdWeek)
Was it only three years ago that the chest-waxing scene in The 40 Year Old Virgin caused such a ruckus? Well, manscaping time must be like dog years: We have come so far in the mainstreaming of male hair removal since then that a chest wax is no longer shocking or wince-worthy.
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
Spike in sales for next poet laureateMid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA - Jul 17, 2008... poetry books, and are out of stock. Meanwhile her publisher, Grove Press, said Thursday it was planning a new book, "New and Selected Poems. ...
- Newtown celebrates women in arts - Joburg
Newtown celebrates women in artsJoburg, South Africa - 43 minutes agoSisters are saying it loud and proud through art, dance, music, poetry and film; their stamp is everywhere, even in science, in Newtown over the Women's Day ...
- Good news for international criminal justice - Globe and Mail
Good news for international criminal justiceGlobe and Mail, Canada - Jul 23, 2008As a fugitive he was cocky in the extreme: He even published a book of poetry while allegedly on the run, and there were reports of regular sightings. ...
- Were US writers dissed? You betcha’ - Worcester Telegram
Were US writers dissed? You betcha’Worcester Telegram, MA - 6 hours agoAmerica offers a rich African-American literature, from Frederick Douglass and WEB DuBois to Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and August Wilson. ...
- Local book signings and other literary events - Long Beach Press-Telegram
Local book signings and other literary eventsLong Beach Press-Telegram, CA - 24 minutes agoRichard Jones and Mifanwy Kaiser read their work at a Tebot Bach poetry meeting. 8 pm, Golden West College, Community Room 102 (near Gothard Street ...
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