Posts Tagged ‘Paul Fitzgerald and Salt and pepper’

Brits rejoice as William and Kate marry

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Reuters News – Joyous crowds cheered and gaped in awe as beaming newlyweds Prince William and Kate Middleton rode through London in a fairytale horse-drawn carriage and kissed on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. They then delivered two — not one — sweet, self-conscious kisses on the balcony, with William blushing deeply at the highly [...]

The AgilityGuard Helps Rocklin Athlete Achieve Excellence in Sport

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Ariana Wong has been skiing for many years and is always on the lookout for news ways to improve her performance on the slopes. The 18 year-old from Rocklin, California – a suburb of Sacramento – knows that every second counts in her game of choice and this is why she regularly trains, works out, [...]

Huge Asteroid to Pass Near Earth in November

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By Leonard David (Yahoo News File) Mark your calendars for an impressive and upcoming flyby of an asteroid that’s one of the larger potentially perilous space rocks in the heavens – in terms of smacking the Earth in the future. It’s the case of asteroid 2005 YU55, a round mini-world that is about 1,300 feet [...]

Gaddafi Will Not Accept Exile Offer from Italy, Germany

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On Tuesday March 29, 2011, Italy and Germany are expected to offer exile to Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. This information came from Italy’s Foreign minister, Franco Frattini at a meeting arranged by France and England to prepare a “political and diplomatic” solution to the current strikes against Libya. In an interview with journalist Ro [...]

Strikes will ‘antagonise’ many in Arab world, says Chomsky

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Military intervention in Libya is a serious mistake, activist Noam Chomsky tells SAUNDRA SATTERLEE NOAM CHOMSKY wrote about the Spanish Civil War at the age of 10 for his school newspaper, was briefly jailed with Norman Mailer in 1967 for an anti-Vietnam protest at the Pentagon, and last May was detained by the Israelis when [...]

Gadhafi forces quiet after jets strike

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Top officials from the United States, Europe and the Arab world have launched immediate military action to protect civilians as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s forces attacked the heart of the country’s rebel uprising. A U.S. warship launched cruise missiles against Libya on Saturday as part of the international effort against leader Mr. Gadhafi, according to [...]

Nuclear leaks now dangerous in Japan

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Thursday Night Magazine has just learned that Japan officials told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that ‘radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere’ after a fire broke out in a storage pond for spent fuel at nuclear reactor damaged by Friday’s earthquake and tsunami. Japan officials are now ordering 140,000 people living near [...]

Death toll in Japan to top 10,000

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TAGAJO, Japan — People across a devastated swath of Japan suffered for a third day Sunday without water, electricity and proper food, as the country grappled with the enormity of a massive earthquake and tsunami that left more than 10,000 people dead in one area alone. Japan’s prime minister called the crisis the most severe [...]

Alec Baldwin To Charlie Sheen: ‘Beg For America’s Forgiveness’

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By Alex West 30 Rock” funnyman Alec Baldwin has had his own share of creative differences with studio executives and he’s offering some advice to fellow actor Charlie Sheen — apologize.In a blog for The Huffington Post, published on Friday, Alec recounted his own battle with a studio head over the Jack Ryan role, before [...]

Tokyo Grapples With Its Vulnerability

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By KENNETH MAXWELL And CHESTER DAWSON As the daylight faded, tens of thousands of stranded office workers wandered the streets of Tokyo, waited in long lines for packed buses, or, for a lucky few, sat in cabs stuck in slow-moving traffic. Others stood in lines in front of the few public phone booths that remain [...]