Telus cancels 'unlimited' data plan

Telus has canceled one of its most popular data plans: a $75/month plan that allowed cell phones to be used as modems for laptops. One of the big reasons is due to "abuse." It seems that unlimited meant "within...

Urban Youth: A Great Source of Untapped Growth

The world’s growing urbanization means that a whole generation of youth will have a dramatically different life than their parents. The world’s 3.3 billion urbanites now outnumber rural residents for the first...

Dog protected abandoned newborn, doctors say

"(CNN) -- A dog sheltered a newborn baby abandoned by its 14-year-old mother in a field in rural Argentina until the boy was rescued, a doctor said Friday. ...

Brits choosing food over flowers for the first time since WWII

There are times when I really think that this whole wisdom of crowds thing is for real.  This is one of those examples.  Given the problems we are already seeing with the rise in fuel and the resulting rise in food prices it is refreshing to see people reacting in,...

"I Shook Hands With Li" says Teen Who Bought the Bus Beheader's Laptop

It has been revealed that a Manitoba teenager shook hands with Greyhound Bus maniac Vince Li just hours before Li's heinous alleged crime.  "He seemed a straight, regular guy" the teen said.   " ...

Australian farmers misled by Rural Network dating agency

Rural Network dating agency routinely lied and misled clients about prospective romantic interests.Their clients mostly farmers and miners had all paid registration fees to Rural Network because they...

Do you Remember her, Lakshmi (who was born with four arms and four legs ) - ...

This was in the news last year and it's really good to know that she is doing so well. I just wanted this to share with everyone. I am also putting the original news below, so you can see the amazing journey...

Tasmanian houses renting for $1 a week

AN Australian town is offering houses to rent for $1 a week. The prospective tenants must have kids, the younger the better,  which will help to save its comunity and its tiny school. " The small...

The End of White Flight

"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is...

To Fight Food Prices, S. Africa Urges Return to Farming

The latest installment of national Geographic's series on the world food crisis focuses on the role subsistence farming can play in resolving the crisis. Smaller high value farms (that is farms that have a higher yield per acre) would reduce reliance on food imports, increase...

Farmers 'poorer and more depressed'

MORE than one in five Australian farmers in drought-affected areas have had to pawn or sell something because of lack of money, a study reveals. And more than one-third say farm production is at its lowest level...

Warning! Tofu May Harm Your Memory

Vegetarians beware. Those that eat lots of any kind of specific food might be in danger of too much or too little of one chemical or another. After all in the end that's all that food is - a combination of...

EU rules ban sale of 'too small' kiwis

In a ridiculous story which comes at a time when everyone is feeling the pinch of rising food costs, a wholesaler in the UK has been banned from selling a consignment of kiwi fruits because EU laws have declared...

Tsvangirai rejects 'sham' ballot

Morgan Tsvangirai has described Zimbabwe's election run-off as "an excercise in mass intimidation". "Mr Tsvangirai, who boycotted the poll because of violence, said people across Zimbabwe had been forced to take...

Paper-clip trader back in action

Two years ago, Kyle MacDonald traded a small red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen, swaped the fish-shaped pen for a doornob, and kept on trading until he had a house in a small Saskatchewan town. He kept a ...

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