Archive for November, 2007

Spotlight: For Native American, money leads the way (International Herald Tribune)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

A well-managed gambling business has helped Max Osceola Jr., a leader of the 3,320 Seminole, make the Native American tribe one of the richest in the United States.

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One year on, protest still paralyses central Beirut (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

A Lebanese opposition tent city, which began as a powerful outcry to topple the government a year ago, has dwindled to a symbolic presence, but the protest by Hezbollah and its Christian ally still paralyses central Beirut.

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Massa derides Kuhl’s trip to Brazil, calls it a junket (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Rep. Randy Kuhl on Thursday defended his participation in a six-day congressional trip to Brazil this week that has been denounced by his opponent as little more than a taxpayer-funded vacation to a warm clime.

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HOW SPY HERO WON WILD WEST BAGHDAD (New York Post)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

BAGHDAD - One morning in late May, a former Iraqi military intelligence officer working as an American agent walked up to the al Qaeda ruler of west Baghdad. The exchange of words and then bullets that followed has transformed the most volatile…

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Troutmans named outstanding young farmers (The Daily Record)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

COLUMBUS — A couple with a vineyard near Wooster and a successful winery near Akron received top honors during the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation annual awards banquet Thursday night.

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Islamists emerge in stifled Tunisia (Los Angeles Times)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The nation, a tourist attraction, has long repressed religious and political freedoms. Underground radicalism is producing militants. The jihad journey of the Nasri brothers began in this mud-splattered town where shipyards rust and umbrella sellers wait with mercenary fervor for storms to rumble in from across the lake.

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Special wine bottles become works of art (Seattle Times)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Like a viticultural magician, Scott Schoenen can double the value of a bottle of wine without aging it for years. The owner of Fresh Northwest…

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By 2009, no trash in landfill, DEQ says (The Oregonian)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

For five decades, the unlined Lakeside Reclamation Landfill — neighbor to the Tualatin River, a wildlife refuge and a winery — has accepted thousands of tons of construction debris and other trash generated by Washington County’s building boom.

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Israeli men are the big spenders in coffee bars

Friday, November 30th, 2007

By SHELLY PAZ
Jerusalem Post

The Israeli man on average spends more money in coffee shops than the Israeli woman, refuting an old cliché that women spend more money and time at coffee shops gossiping with their friends.

“I have a coffee in one of the coffee-shops in the area almost every day and mainly during the morning hours,” Avi Ruvio, a Jerusalemite and the owner of a private

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Ending Dispute, Starbucks Is to Help Ethiopian Farmers

Friday, November 30th, 2007

By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: November 29, 2007

After a dispute over coffee trademarks that turned into a public relations problem for Starbucks, the company said yesterday that it would open a center in Ethiopia to help coffee farmers improve the profitability of their crops.

The Starbucks chairman, Howard D. Schultz, made the announcement after meeting with the Ethiopian prime minister,

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