| Holding out for a hero (male reporter)
It might pain my mother to hear it, but there's ample evidence to suggest complete strangers regard me as a potential robbing, pillaging thug. Is that a bad thing? I don't know, but it's certainly one conclusion to be drawn after I spent an afternoon feigning vehicle trouble on some of Calgary's busiest thoroughfares -- Crowchild Tr., McKnight Blvd., Barlow Tr. and 16 Ave. -- and not one person pulled over to help. Contrast that with my colleague, Nadia Moharib, who embarked on this same social experiment and proved chivalry is not dead. Five people stopped to help her when they noticed her car pulled over, its hazard lights flashing and hood open. But I could only take being skunked in stride. After all, it had been less than a week since a Good Samaritan stopped on Hwy.
March of the wind farm in doubt on a divided island
It stands to reason that providing a school and teacher for 3 bairns on Unst or somewhere is higher than a building and a teacher for 20 in Falkirk. Or the cost of mile of road per number of cars going to use it on Harris compared to Cumbernauld. Or flying a woman to give birth from Raasay to Fort William. It costs the government more to provide public services to people in the North West and Islands. As a taxpayer, I don't object. But now you have a chance to help the national good in a way that only your part of the country can and you're all moaning. .
Starpulse Entertainment News Blog
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are reportedly seeking medical advice following a series of failed attempts to conceive a second child. The couple is desperate for a son following the birth of daughter Suri in April 2006, but Holmes is alleged to be having difficulty becoming pregnant. And the Batman Begins star is now preparing to visit a specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles later this month to establish the problem. A source tells Britain's Now magazine, "She's really upset about it. The one thing she wants more than anything is a son for Tom. "She says they've been trying since the summer, but it just hasn't happened for them yet. "Katie and Tom sat down and had a heart-to-heart and decided it might be worth her going to see the doctor to get checked out." - Tom Cruise Pictures - Katie Holmes Photos (This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network) .
Big Table Fantasies
Paul S.: I like it! What would be really cool is if, in states like Iowa, folks in the caucus that are for Kucinish would throw their second ballots to Edwards. That could tip the scales. I wish more states had caucuses. It's more like IRV voting than anything else we have. Further, I would like ALL the candidates to understand that the American people DO NOT need universal health insurance. What we need and want is universal access to medical care. As in single payor. We don't want the government doling out healthcare. We just want them to PAY for it equally for every man, woman, and child in the whole country. This is not socialized medicine. This is socialized insurance! I hope everyone understands the difference. .
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For the organizers of the show, all the negative attention put them in a defensive crouch. "No media are allowed in the show," said promoter George Corluka. "It's not my decision. It's up to the church." Perkovic, he added, was devastated by the terrible hubbub that preceded him in the United States and would not speak to any members of the print media in this country because no one would treat him fairly. This reporter purchased tickets on Craigslist.com on Saturday afternoon. "Okay, you're the only media in here," Corluka said, a few songs into the concert. "We'll see if you're fair. We'll see." The attempted journalist blockade might have raised the expectations bar a little high. No offense, Mr. Corluka, but musically Perkovic and his band are kind of mundane; they sound, at moments, like the Gipsy Kings doing "Dust in the Wind." The charm of songs like "Geni Kameni" is perhaps in the lyrics -- and they don't translate all that well: Genes, genes made of stone A fire burns within me Genes, genes made of stone That's the way we are born Take it or leave it.
My Body, My Self
The screen displays, in plain black-and-white text, the focus of Newmark's daily life -- much of it, anyway. It's in an e-mail program called Pine, favored by geeks of all ages, partly because it renders the mouse nearly useless. Pine users are, like Newmark, the type who derive an almost perverse pleasure from deleting a message by simply pressing the "D" key, rather than undertaking the laborious task of clicking on a trash can icon. Newmark pores over his inbox, which receives about 300 messages daily. Clack. Clack. Clack. Click-ity-clack-ca-clack. Every so often, he turns to the left, and his own moving image, collected by a computer video camera, stares back at him from a small laptop screen. Newmark is a young-looking 52, despite his nearly bald pate and stout physique.
Safford smokes Globe, gets No. 1 seed at state
Safford's Jacob Williams, left, dribbles past a Globe player at Safford on Thursday night. Williams scored four goals and added three assists in a 10-0 wipeout over the Tigers. Williams finished the season with 30 goals despite missing a few games. He has 96 goals in his high school career and still has one year of varsity soccer left. Photo by Brian Wright .
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