KyaemonGermany vs Spain: Patience pays as Puyol and the Red Fury make World Cup history – CSMonitor.com http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2010/0707/Germany-vs-Spain-Patience-pays-as-Puyol-and-the-Red-Fury-make-World-Cup-history Germany vs Spain: Patience pays as Puyol and the Red Fury make World Cup history Spain will go to the World Cup championship match for the first time after a header by Carles Puyol helped them expose […]
Spain Slips Past Germany To Reach World Cup Final : NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128366527&ft=1&f=1004 July 7, 2010 Clinging to a tournament-long formula of precise passing, ball control, tight defense and a timely second-half goal, Spain picked apart Germany 1-0 Wednesday to reach Sunday’s World Cup final against the Netherlands. Defender Carles Puyol soared above a line of […]
The Buzz Log – A Lottery Winning Streak…But Who Really Wins? – Yahoo! Buzz Maybe the odds of winning the lottery would be a lot better if Joan Ginther would stop buying all the good tickets. By now you may have heard of the Las Vegas resident, who you probably want sitting next to you when […]
Stamp prices going up again _ 46-cent rate asked http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/06/AR2010070600303.html WASHINGTON — Buy those Forever stamps now. The cost of mailing a letter is going up again. Fighting to survive a deepening financial crisis, the Postal Service said Tuesday it wants to increase the price of first-class stamps by 2 cents – to 46 cents […]
New Passport Fees – Effective July 13 New passport fees for the U.S. Passport Book, the U.S. Passport Card, and other passport services will be in effect on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The schedule of new fees for passport application services is as follows: U.S. Passport Book Passport Fee Payable to Department of State Acceptance […]
World’s largest oil skimming vessel helps with cleanup of spill http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-07/02/c_13381387.htm Largest oil-skimming vessel heads to Gulf of Mexico http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2010-07/01/c_13379456.htm BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhuanet) — The US government is pinning its latest cleanup hopes on a huge new piece of equipment as hurricane-whipped waves push more oil onto the Gulf of Mexico’s once-white beaches. A […]
Giant oil skimmer being tested in Gulf of Mexico – Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill NEW ORLEANS – Gulf of Mexico cleanup crews working to block millions of gallons of oil from reaching land may soon have a giant on their side, if a weekend test of a new skimmer goes well. The Taiwanese vessel dubbed “A […]
Butler’s tapes play role in French heiress trial – Yahoo! Finance http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Butlers-tapes-play-role-in-apf-3503119589.html?x=0&.v=1 PARIS (AP) — They were supposed to be confidential chats between France’s richest woman and her financial advisers, with topics ranging from secret Swiss bank accounts to her gift of a private luxury island to a friend. But someone slipped a recorder into […]
(USUALLY THIS HAPPENS WHEN THERE IS NO “COUNTER CHECK OR A “CHECK AND BALANCE SYSTEM.” FOOLISH PEOPLE JUST TRUST SOMEBODY COMPLETELY. IT’S LIKE KEEPING THEIR DOORS ALWAYS OPEN AND INVITING PEOPLE TO STEAL. SAME THING, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TRUSTED ITS MONKS. IT HOPED THOSE BAD MONKS WILL CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. HOWEVER, THE BAD […]
N Y TIMES ARTICLE BY NOBEL LAUREATE PAUL KRUGMAN Recessions are common; depressions are rare. As far as I can tell, there were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as “depressions” at the time: the years of deflation and instability that followed the Panic of 1873 and the years of mass […]
Court lets Vatican-sex abuse lawsuit move forward – Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100629/ap_on_re_us/us_supreme_court_clergy_abuse;_ylt=AvhWMyHpUmC_wttJpcz9zkis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlY2sxcnVlBHBvcwM2NwRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawNjb3VydGxldHN2YXQ- A lawsuit against the Vatican that had been dismissed as a publicity stunt moved forward when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the Holy See. Monday’s development represents a significant advance for what many believed to be a long-shot claim […]
Supreme Court allows sex-abuse case to proceed against the Vatican – CSMonitor.com aces.http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/0628/Supreme-Court-allows-sex-abuse-case-to-proceed-against-the-Vatican By Warren Richey, Staff writer / June 28, 2010 Washington The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to examine whether an Oregon resident who allegedly was sexually molested by a Roman Catholic priest as a teenager in the 1960s can sue the Vatican […]
Inside the Dire Financial State of the States – TIME http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1997284-1,00.html EXTRACTS How the Money Ran Out For the first time in four decades of collecting data, the National Governors Association (NGA) reports that total state spending has dropped for two years in a row. In hard-hit Arizona, for example, the state budget has sagged […]