News from Las Vegas Sun - 03/09/2010
Former teacher, soccer coach pleads guilty to child sex charges
A former teacher at a Boulder City middle school and youth soccer coach pleaded guilty Tuesday in Clark County District Court to six counts including lewdness, sexual assault and production of pornography, all involving a child under the age of 14.
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News from Sydney Morning Herald - 03/09/2010
Letters
The building as represented is very light (visually) and transparent – in the views one can look right through every floor to the landscape beyond. Similarly, there appear to be no services, lift cores or heavy structure at ground level – all of which are essential in a hotel. So while these images portray a visually transparent structure floating above a very open ground plane, the actual ...
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News from New York Review of Books - 03/08/2010
The New Tower of London
Martin Filler The winning design for the US Embassy in London, by KieranTimberlake (KieranTimberlake Architects) One of the most well-intentioned artistic initiatives ever undertaken by the United States government has turned out to be among its least successful: the embassy design program meant to present America’s best architectural face abroad. The latest evidence of this effort’s often ...
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News from PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - 03/08/2010
World Cocoa Foundation Launches Cocoa Livelihoods Program in Nigeria
At a ceremony held in Osogbo, Osun State, the World Cocoa Foundation today launched the Cocoa Livelihoods Program in Nigeria. Â The program initially announced in February 2009, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 14 chocolate industry companies, is expected to significantly improve the livelihoods of nearly 30,000 cocoa farmers in Nigeria by 2014.
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News from MalaysiaNews.net - 03/06/2010
Row rages over iconic image of Che Guevara
Alberto Díaz 'Korda' Gutierrez in 2000, with cropped and uncropped versions of his most famous image. Photograph: Adalberto Roque/AFP It is the photograph that adorns student bedsits across the wor...
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News from Madera Tribune - 03/06/2010
Salamander protection could affect farming
SACRAMENTO (AP) - State wildlife officials Wednesday ruled that the California tiger salamander deserves protection as a threatened species, subjecting landowners to more scrutiny if they want to build or farm in the amphibian's habitat.
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News from San Diego Union-Tribune - 03/06/2010
Parks tax would shortchange conservationists
The motto for the California State Parks Initiative that likely will make the November ballot is “Yes For State Parks.”
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News from Drummer - 03/05/2010
HEADLINES FOR FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Someone figured out a way to enjoy the ice fishing season without worrying about removing an ice fishing house at the end of February. This igloo ice fishing house will simply melt away. A resident on Cedar Lake in Monticello Township told us about the igloo but has no idea who built it.
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News from KTHV Little Rock - 03/05/2010
Escaped sex offender arrested at casino
The Benton County sheriff's says U.S. marshals arrested Richard Rogers Wednesday night as he left a casino in Tulsa.
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News from Brisbane Times - 03/05/2010
We need the surgery, but please use a steady hand
The federal government should be congratulated for proposing a new health policy to take us into the 21st century. It is obvious our health system is not coping and without radical changes it will become of third world quality in the foreseeable future.
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News from Londonist - 03/05/2010
Prince Charles' Chelsea Barracks Letter Revealed
Has the panjandrum of Poundbury lost his famed rhetorical flair? The letter that Prince Charles wrote to Qatari Diar last year, which resulted in Richard Rogers' scheme for Chelsea Barracks being jettisoned , has come to light , and, frankly, it's a bit of a disappointment. Referring somewhat inaccurately to the glass-and-steel design as "brutalist", our solipsistic and maudlin Prince writes ...
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News from San Diego Union-Tribune - 03/05/2010
Yellowtail bite at Coronados livens up landings
Yellowtail bit Wednesday and yesterday for three-quarter-day boats at the Coronado Islands.
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News from St. Tammany News - 03/05/2010
Drake â“ Weller
Alexandra Kay Weller of Nashville, Tenn., and Frederick Louis Drake of Denham Springs were united in marriage at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, at Munholland United Methodist Church in Metairie.
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News from KHBS - KHOG Fort Smith - Fayetteville - 03/04/2010
Police: Level 4 Sex Offender Walked Away From Hospital
Richard Rogers was transported from the McDonald County Jail to a hospital for treatment when a judge decided to place him on a medical furlough, and he escaped.
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News from The New York Observer - 03/04/2010
Port, Silverstein Move Closer with New Two-Tower WTC Offer
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey this week presented a new offer to private developer Larry Silverstein that seeks to assist in financing construction of two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center. The offer calls for Mr. Silverstein to raise $300 million in new private capital and for the city to put in a significant contribution toward the redevelopment before the Port Authority ...
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News from KSN - KODE Joplin - 03/04/2010
Current Conditions
Tulsa, OK--The man who escaped Freeman Neosho Hospital is arrested in Tulsa. Richard Rogers, 57, of McDonald County escaped from the hospital Monday evening.
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News from The New York Observer - 03/04/2010
Steve Roth, Uncorked
Without a doubt, one of the more intriguing, bull-headed, coarse-spoken figures on the New York City real estate scene is Steven Roth. Chairman of giant REIT Vornado Realty Trust, he avoids the media—Vornado's press strategy is to decline comment on most everything—and yet is tremendously candid and hyperbolic in the uncommon moment when he opts to make a public appearance, be it a call with ...
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News from The New Zealand Herald - 03/04/2010
Brian Rudman: Sydney's flair for reinvention underlines our own lack of imagination
For those who are baulking at the idea of a Waterfront Development Authority taking over the revival of the downtown waterfront, just take another look at the pictures in yesterday's Herald. Could anyone inflict worse scars on this...
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News from The New Zealand Herald - 03/04/2010
Sydney's flair for reinvention underlines our own lack of imagination
For those who are baulking at the idea of a Waterfront Development Authority taking over the revival of the downtown waterfront, just take another look at the pictures in yesterday's Herald.
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News from KFSM Ft. Smith-Fayetteville - 03/04/2010
Level 4 Sex Offender Caught
A convicted level four sex offender wanted for the sexual assault of a nine-year-old girl in Benton County is back in custody.
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