The diaspora settles down and begins to take care of its own
Recently, visiting Los Angeles, I went walking through the neighbourhood of Venice and saw a restaurant called Mao's Kitchen, and at that very instant tripped on the sidewalk, twisted my ankle and fell with a thud on the curb. I lay flat on the asphalt, stunned. Mao's Kitchen? There was a long queue outside. The interior was d...
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It was while watching Wednesday night's annual Fair Go best and worst advertisements awards that I recalled the recent enraged phone call from a friend protesting over the latest Jenny Craig advertisements.
For those of you who haven't seen it, the new weight-loss ads show former Cheers star Kirstie Alley appear in a series of self-congratulatory boasts about her ever-increasing incredi...
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SEOUL, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The following is a summary of stories in South Korean newspapers, prepared by Reuters in Seoul. Reuters has not checked the stories and does not guarantee their accuracy.
- South Korea's Board of Audit and Inspection said it would scrutinise 226 state-run companies by the end of next year and push for strict restructuring, including consolidation of some of the orga...
First, Cindy Sheehan would have all the troops return home.
Then Iraqis could fend for themselves. That would mean that the newly elected government would be slaughtered. The newly trained Iraqi security forces would be caught in nets and then fed to shredding machines.
Next would be Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon captured for mincemeat while his council members were sent flyin...
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- For many Oklahomans allergies are a way of life, especially this time of year. If you have serious allergies, you may have had to endure the time consuming, often painful, skin testing. Now a new test lets you bypass all that and still find out what you're allergic to.
For much of Karen Hicks' life, she's battled allergies. About thirteen years ago, she actual...
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Matt Gotowski received the phone call he and his family had been waiting more than a year for while he was at a mechanic's, getting his car fixed.
Since August 2004, his son, Joey, a fifth grader at Rheems Elementary School, had been on the waiting list for an intestinal transplant, the only permanent solution to Hirschsprung's disease. The illness had gradually cost Joey his gall bladd...
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The board of directors obviously felt that the 3500 U.S. stores just weren't paying the bills. This multi-national corporate conglomerate symbolizes the growing gulf between rich and poor. It is a toilet that systematically flushes good paying jobs and terrorizes employees who sympathize with unions. It is the largest U.S. employer, and has become so by selling cheap foreign-made merchandise, ...
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Ignoring a person dressed in a yellow chicken suit standing across the street holding up a sign that said "Mike, What's Today's Excuse?" Mayor Michael Bloomberg strolled into a Queens day care center Thursday to announce a new initiative.
The sign refered to the mayor's failure to show up at Thursday night's debate at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and his reasons for staying away.
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Without the particulars — yard size, grass type, shade, etc. — it is not possible to diagnose the exact source of the problem, says Skip Richter, horticulturist at the Travis County Extension Service, but it is not the dogs. If it were the dogs' urine, you would be seeing dead rings of grass — small fist-sized spots.
Want to pinpoint the problem? Take a sample of the gr...
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(LOUISVILLE) -- For years, the most effective tool for early detection of breast cancer has been the mammogram -- a procedure that is not without a certain amount of discomfort. But a simple solution is helping ease that pain, and other medical advances right here in Kentuckiana are helping doctors detect cancer earlier than ever before. WAVE 3 Medical Reporter Lori Lyle reports.
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