Suicide rates up for soldiers

This is really sad. I believe it though. I recently dated a Marine for awhile, but after he returned from Iraq he changed, drastically. He was really depressed, drank almost 5 beers a day and would go off in a rant about feeling guilty for being back home and leaving all of...

Cobra MT800 Walkie Talkie Pack

"Some bright spark wanting the freedom to go off and ski the red runs, leaving his less able companions on the nursery slopes, wanted a way to communicate where to meet up later for apres ski beers. So he made these walkie talkies and gave them to all his pals, no line...

Antwerp World Diamond Centre to host groundbreaking diamond conference

"The conference will be addressed among others by Deputy Prime Minister of Angola Aguinaldo Jaime; South African Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica; Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz; Kimberley Process chairman Karel Kovanda; Sergey Vybornov,...

Scotland on Sunday

"THE ingredients most likely to spark confrontation between the United States and Iran could scarcely be simpler or more combustible: a tin filled with an explosive charge and a lump of copper is all that is needed to manufacture what the US military calls an Explosively...

The Old Speckled Hen

"The Old Speckled Hen is the British appendage to Tir Nan Og. It is a small, classy bar with a great selection of beers from the British Isles, including Boddingtons, Tennants and Old Speckled Hen- this one is not on tap."

The king of beers and good conversation

""As long as I can remember, my main goal in life has been to be a character." So I was told several years ago by Gregory William Miller Stein, co-owner and resident of San Francisco Brewcraft, a home-brew supply shop in the Richmond District. "

Immigrant Games

"The checks, both workers say, were payment from Ethan Construction, where, until last month, they both say they worked at the company's old Rainier Brewery building project."