UK government officials are proposing that benefit claimants be put to work. Under the new initiative, claimants would owe four weeks community service after a year of unemployment, and would have to work...
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With everyone focusing on the Tour de France, which starts in Brest in just a few hours, it's easy to forget that there's alot of other racing going on around the world. And with the Olympics on the horizon, the...
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Islamists protested today over the decision to reprieve 7,000 death row inmates and change their sentences to life imprisonment in honour of Benazir Bhutto's birthday.This is one of the biggest amnesties in...
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Employers in Alaska, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Idaho have already made the energy-saving move to a four-day week, and many more are thinking about it. The trend is largely due to the high cost of fuel, but...
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" Like coffee beans, cocoa beans are grown around the world and are a major commodity, highly prized in wealthy countries. West Africa accounts for 70 percent of the world's output, with the rest grown either...
800,000 public sector workers, including school dinner ladies and council trash collectors, are going to stage a strike in the UK next month. The union, Unison, is just one of many that are threatening to stage a "summer of discontent" of strikes over the skyrocketing cost of...
"Our next HUGE Yard Sale Fundraiser is taking place on Saturday, June 28th, 2008. Mark your calendars now! All proceeds benefit The Wooden Cow Gallery and Art Space, a local grassroots creative co-op devoted to promoting arts awareness, while improving the lives and...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly now with the price of oil skyrocketing, Nuclear seems to be the way to go. Past Rabid Naysayers seem to be changing their tune now versus when Oil was...
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One of the summer’s most anticipated concerts for nearly a decade, Reggae Carifest will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year, with organizers announcing the event to take place Sunday, July 6th at the USTA National Tennis Center: Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows...
A representative of Chris Music concepts opened a can of worms on Monday when he addressed the panel during the Q&A section at the launch of the Carifest C.A.R.E.S Aids Benefit Concert.“What does Carifest...
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"By JOEL MCNALLY Tuesday, June 3, 2008As someone who opposed the Vietnam War and didn’t spit on a single soldier, I have never believed those stories about servicemen in uniform encountering a tsunami...
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"A therapy tailored to individuals’ genes has transformed the treatment of achronic disease, in a ground-breaking advance for personalised medicine.Hundreds of diabetes sufferers in Britain were able to switch from insulininjections to cheaper, more effective drugs after a...
"Own a piece of SATC history by bidding on a stunning outfit that was worn by Kim Cattrall in the #1 movie in the country! Cattrall, Lighthouse International's POSH® Celebrity Chair, generously donated the...
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" IT’S what every patient wants – a private nurse to care for them at home instead of in hospital. Now that dream could become reality, sort of, for thousands of people suffering with long-term illnesses. They...
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Virgin is now throttling bandwidth on high-volume users, effective immediately. "Virgin Media has quietly rolled out bandwidth throttling nationwide, after successful technical trials in the North West, which the ISP says means a group of heavy users will sacrifice high...
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