current affairs

Wedding Bells

Published on May 20 2005

CNN.com - Wedding for Letourneau and former student - May 20, 2005 SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Security leading up to the Friday night wedding of Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade student rivaled that of a top-secret government operation...

Man Claims Firing Over Drinking Wrong Beer - Yahoo! News Ross Hopkins, 41, filed suit in Weld County District Court, saying American Eagle Distributing Co. has no right to tell him what kind of beer to drink when he is off-duty. Hopkins said he was fired...

Strike Shuts Down Finnish Paper Industry National Conciliator Juhani Salonius, who mediated the talks, said major disagreements hinged on the use of temporary employees and production breaks during national holidays. The paper workers union said employees...

JS Online: Long after Bolsheviks, the bikes are back Harley opened its first dealership in Russia in 1913 in St. Petersburg, then the capital of the czarist empire, said Maxim Belousov, director of the Moscow outlet. That office was closed after the communist...

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no title needed on this day

Published on May 7 2005

memory of the camps Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world's conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic...

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heh....

Published on May 6 2005

Whether you use it for cuddling, warmth, or to hide from the media, this blanket will come in handy and folds easily during police lineups. jens_blanket

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'Louie Louie'

Published on May 5 2005

Band Banned From Performing 'Louie Louie' - Yahoo! News BENTON HARBOR, Mich. - A pop culture controversy that has simmered for decades came to a head when a middle school marching band was told not to perform "Louie Louie." Benton Harbor Superintendent...

International Respect for Chickens Day International Respect for Chickens Day Wednesday May 4, 2005 "They would rather die for their chicks than seek safety in flight . . ." Aldrovandi – 16th century Chickens are cheerful, intelligent birds. The mother...

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Man wakes up after 10 years

Published on May 3 2005

CNN.com - Brain damaged for 10 years, firefighter makes astounding recovery - May 3, 2005 ORCHARD PARK, New York (AP) -- Ten years after a firefighter was left brain-damaged and mostly mute during a 1995 roof collapse, he did something that shocked his...

CNN.com - FDA OKs lizard-derived diabetes drug - Apr 29, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Type 2 diabetics got a new option to help control their blood sugar Friday, a drug derived from the saliva of the Gila monster -- but one that must be injected twice a d...