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- July Fourth events crowd weekend (Homer News)
[The Declaration of Independence may have been signed on the East Coast, but there's plenty of celebrating around the coast of Kachemak Bay and Cook Inlet.
- More here (OS News)
"It's always an interesting day when you get to write a kernel patch, at the urging of Andrew Morton, that notifies the world that non-GPL Linux kernel modules will not work after January 2008 and write some poetry all in the same message."
- Heritage questions answered (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - A welcome addition to the scarce resource material on conservation in the Philippine context is “Balangkas,†a book focusing on the care of built heritage published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
- Hip-hop on over to the Green Show - Ashland Daily Tidings
Sneak in some free hip-hop entertainment tonight during the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Green Show. The show begins at 7:15 p.m. in the courtyard at the festival, 15 Pioneer St., Ashland. Did we mention it's free? Buckworld One: Hip-Hop Theater, a ...
- 'Bangladesh' a nation of tea and textiles … and Bengali speakers - Zaman Online
'Bangladesh' a nation of tea and textiles … and Bengali speakersZaman Online, Turkey - 15 hours agoIts people are hospitable and warm, and they have a deep and lengthy tradition of love and respect for Turks. Islam came to Bangladesh around the 13th ...
- CONTACT WITH AILING GRANDDAD ENRICHES BOTH YOUNG AND OLD - Yahoo News
DEAR ABBY: The letter from "Paw-Paw and Maw-Maw in Alabama" (May 13), whose son has cut off contact with their 5-year-old grandson to "protect" the boy from Grandpa's eventual death, left me feeling intense sorrow for all concerned. In 1996, my ...
- Art show message from inside - Northcote Leader
Art show message from insideNorthcote Leader, Australia - Jul 8, 2008Perkovich, who is based in Brunswick, has a fashion label called Dark Butterfly and worked for a time with colourful Melbourne art identity Vali Myers. ...
- Suits — Not Steroids — Skew Olympic Swimming - New York Times Blogs
Most swimmers competing in the Bejing Olympics this summer believe they will fail without a new $600 swimsuit, The Economist reports . In February Speedo introduced its LZR swimsuit and 38 of the 42 world swimming records broken since then were by ...
- Musicians Perform for Pope One of His Favorites (Zenit News Agency)
VATICAN CITY, AUG. 26, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- The city of Castel Gandolfo offered its honored guest -- Benedict XVI -- a classical music concert in his honor, featuring one of the selections the Pope says is among his favorites.
- July 29: Scenes from the Arts-burgh (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Sara Evans performed her fun songs with pep and sparkle, and people on the grassy lawn couldn't help but get up and dance.
- Letters Editor Paul Russell: Say nothing but good of the dead; enough ... - Nationalpost.com
Are there any original arguments to be made in the Henry Morgentaler/ abortion/Order of Canada debate? Readers seem to think so, as this topic dominated the National Post letters file again this week. Of the more than 130 letters on this subject ...
- Palestine mourns death of poet icon - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldPalestine mourns death of poet iconSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 9 minutes agoPhoto: AP Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry helped make him one of the leading cultural voices for the Palestinian experience, has died in Houston, Texas, ...
- Sylvia Plath - guardian.co.uk
Sylvia Plathguardian.co.uk, UK - 59 minutes agoUnfortunately adopted as patron saint of a cult of angsty victimhood, her work overshadowed by her life, the power and precision of her poetry are ...
- Sex and drugs and blank verse - Hindustan Times
The Genealogy of the Beats goes right back to the Romantics, with their "falling and dying" and funereal odes to creatures with wings. But in more concrete terms - in terms readily understood by those who were looking for a way out of bourgeois ...
- Restoration of diners gives inmates a taste of success - Houston Chronicle
Take Sherwood's Diner, once so popular in Worcester, Mass., that patrons who were firefighters rigged a fire bell to ring inside. Or Hickey's Diner, hooked to a 1954 Chevy truck on the town green in Taunton, Mass. Or the gigantic Louis' Diner in ...
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