Archive for February, 2010

Gloria Antipan of Edmonton spent 12 nerve-racking hours on the phone and online before learning her parents in Chile were alive.

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Albertan worries about parents in Chile

CHICAGO — JuWanda Harris spent the last year rising before thesun to work two jobs, using the money to support her brother andsister and help her parents with everything from gas bills totoothpaste.

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Tax season is also identity theft season

For days now I’ve been losing sleep fretting about getting 4,000 gallons of lake water into the Elmwood grade school gymnasium.   And that was before reading that the Dubai Aquarium had started leaking.

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Lampe: Bringing AllOutdoors inside

Though the Cambodian government says its 11 state drug treatment centers are all voluntary, a report released by New-York based Human Rights Watch last month says only 1-2% of drug users enter Cambodia’s drug rehabilitation facilities by choice

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Cambodia: Forcing heroin addicts to use herbal remedy

A National Clean Energy Fund. Doubling the money to clean India’s holy Ganga

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India goes green : more than Rs 2,500 crore will be available to finance clean, innovative technologies

Portsmouth put their money worries aside to beat Burnley 2-1, while Bolton and Birmingham both won 1-0, against Wolves and Wigan respectively.

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Pompey punish Clarets, Trotters rise

THE deputy leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council says he fears a major £45million transport scheme will “never happen” – after a snub by a Government minister.

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Worries over £45 million East Lancashire transport plan

U.S. stocks on Friday cap their best month since November with modest gains, lifted by some improvement in U.S

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NewsWatch: U.S. stocks edge higher, end month with gains

Research says states save $11 in societal costs for every $1 spent on education in prison.

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Dan Popkey: Educating Idaho inmates can save taxpayers money

Facebook’s new patent on publishing streams of user activities has many worried for online innovation.

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Facebook Patents Social Network Feeds, Raising Innovation Worries