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August 24, 2008 News and Trends

News Analysis - After Glow of Games, What Next for China?

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:48:19 PDT
The elaborate closing ceremony that ended the Olympic Games on Sunday also ended nearly a decade in which the ruling Communist Party had made the Games an organizing principle in national life. Almost nothing has superseded the Olympics as a political priority in China.

Real-Time Local News for Western Massachusetts

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:01 PDT
Springfield, MA (PRWEB) September 28, 2007 -- Getting news once or twice a day is no longer sufficient. Why wait for local traffic, weather or sports updates when continual updates are possible? ...

Death toll from listeria in Canada climbs

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:46:49 PDT
Canadian politicians and bureaucrats keep smugly bragging about their wonderful system for foodborne disease surveillance? It’s impossible to tell from the various public statements who became sick when, and whether the system really worked or not. If you’re going to brag about how the system is working, you have to provide dates for onset of illness and deaths. Those dates have not been provided. Take a look at the updates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control concerning the Salmonella S

Iraq: suicide bomber kills 25 west of Baghdad

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:15:01 PDT
A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in the midst of a celebration to welcome home an Iraqi detainee released from U.S. custody, killing at least 25 people, Iraqi officials said. The U.S. military, meanwhile, announced the arrest of an al-Qaida in Iraq figure who allegedly planned the 2006 kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll - one of the highest-profile attacks against Westerners in Iraq. The suicide attack occurred inside one of several tents set up outside a house in the A

Work from home trendz - Organisations allowing work from hom

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:15:07 PDT
Yes new trend has begun with companies preferring to hire work from people for certain jobs rather than hiring full time or part time employees. According to a recent survey conducted by Workplace Employee Relations Surveyone out of eight companies permit there staff to work from home.

News agencies report passenger jet has crashed on takeoff in Kyrgyzstan (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:58:00 PDT
MOSCOW - Russian news agencies say an airliner en route to Iran has crashed while taking off from Bishkek, capital of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan.

Shoes

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:07:42 PDT
Joe Bungalow, we ask you to peek in your closet and count how many pairs of shoes you own. Five pairs? Maybe six? Consider this: John McCain's family owns more homes than you own shoes. from the Chicago Sun Times http://www.suntimes.com/news/c...

Free speech, Denver style

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:12:05 PDT
Griff Jenkins at Fox News covered the “Recreate ‘68″ protest rally that preceded the Democratic convention in Denver today. As you can see for yourself, Griff and his Fox News microphone gets swallowed up quickly by a hostile crowd that refuses to engage with him at all. Instead, they yell slogans to keep him from interviewing anyone...

5 deaths, 38 illnesses being investigated in Canadian listeria outbreak; sub spokesthingy says consumers are 'hypochrondriacs'

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:57:22 PDT
It’s been a bizarre day, answering questions about the U.S. moving ahead with approvals for irradiation on some leafy greens, and Canada moving backwards – really backwards – into political grandstanding while people suffer in an expanding listeria outbreak. The latest news is that five deaths are now being investigated and dozens of illnesses. If you watch some of the media clips you’ll see that undeserved Canadian smugness shining through – ‘we figured this listeria thing out really fast,

The Times Online–August 22, 2008

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:16:03 PDT
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Los Angeles City Attorney Being Investigated By FBI!

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:32:27 PDT
The news broke on Wednesday according to reports that the FBI had started a criminal investigation. It was 2001, and I had been winding down my service with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, as a volunteer litigation clerk in the Criminal Prosecution Division of the Airport Courthouse. “surrounding himself with outsiders. . "

More breastfed babies at risk of morphine overdose than thought: study (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:37:54 PDT
Nursing mothers who use painkillers that contain codeine could be putting their infants at risk of a deadly overdose, Canadian doctors warn.


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