Keeping crime at bay on cruises takes many hands
Crime on cruise ships is rare, considering 10 million North Americans sailed last year. But some crime victims believe that justice also is rare — due to overlapping investigative powers, difficulty obtaining evidence and witnesses, and a lack of sworn officers aboard ships.
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Keeping faith, but losing religion
"Today, I quit being a Christian." With those words last week on Facebook, Anne Rice delivered a wake-up call for organized religion. The question is whether it will be recognized as such.
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Book review: Financial meltdown yields comical rants in "Diary of a Very Bad Year"
The global banking crisis that began in 2007 has brought some good books into being, volumes historians will consult when reflecting on these hard times. It has also given us some wild cards, unexpected treats that belong on the shelf once labeled belles-lettres but now more commonly known (thanks to Dave Eggers' annual paperback anthologies) as nonrequired reading.
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Keeping you and your garden healthy in August
Don’t you just hate when you make a statement to someone about this or that or the weather, and within days or hours the statement becomes nearly null and void?
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GOOD QUESTION!: Will Kids Save the Printed Book?
Here's an idea to warm the hearts of paper-and-ink lovers everywhere, even as Barnes & Noble goes on the auction block : children may be keeping old-fashioned books alive. In a blog post for British newspaper The Independent, Alan Cleaver writes that both he and publishing company owner Toni Carver have noticed the same thing: "if you want a really colourful, exciting and magical book, look on ...
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On the Road with the Motorola Droid
Brighthand's Ed Hardy recently took an trip with the Motorola Droid as his main way of keeping in touch with the rest of the world. He shares his experiences using this smartphone to its fullest extent.
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St. Charles' Melvin Peterson is a walking history book
Melvin Peterson "had an agreement" with St. Charles police Chief Harold Covalsky back in 1933 when Peterson was a sixth-grader attending the new Shelby School at Fifth and Illinois streets.
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County families include shoe boxes on shopping lists
Kids in the Castle Rock, Parker, Franktown and Elizabeth areas are learning something surprising about back-to-school shopping — it’s not just a time to fill their book bags and closets, it’s also a great opportunity to fill shoe boxes to help children in need around the world.
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Leonard Pitts on Keeping Faith and Losing Religion
I heard author Ann Rice interviewed on NPR the other day, as she explained why she had given up on Christianity and was ready to find another way. Her accompanying online manifesto was passionate and clear: ``In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular ...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Blu-ray)
Rent It THE FILM "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" is an adaptation of the 2007 illustrated bestseller from author Jeff Kinney, and a vociferous motion picture that feels like an endless sugar high. Aggressively irreverent and disappointingly insistent on toilet humor, the picture should've remained in book form. Committing it to film only encourages a strident tone I'm sure the source material never ...
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Who is the New Guerilla Group Threatening Chaos in Greece?
Since it emerged early last year, the deadly Greek terrorist group Sect of Revolutionaries has been targeting journalists and police. Now it says it will turn the country into a "war zone" to scare away tourists and keep the country's economy hurting
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Keeping it fun and healthy for kids
A get-on-your-feet fun workshop emphasizing fun, healthy habits for summer and beyond. All children will receive a jump rope and book. The event starts at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 6, at the Incline Village Public Library.
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Chicago transportation agency outlines big-picture plan
For 20 years, Diane Howe, of Spring Grove , has had to zigzag across Lake County roads to get to work in Buffalo Grove . As she drives more than an hour each way, Howe wonders if her dream roadwork project -- the long-proposed extension of Illinois Highway 53 -- will ever be built. "I don't think it's ever going to happen," said Howe, 65. "It's been in the planning for how many years?" If it's ...
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Pickerington girls ruled court
Assistant Keith Ebright was keeping a big secret when he arrived at the Pickerington High School girls basketball team's season-ending banquet in March 1999.
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A corker of a read
Bring out the heralds, the initial reports about this book, Tiger Hills by debutante author Sarita Mandanna, are all true. Set in Coorg, undoubtedly one of the most picturesque places in the world, the wide sweep of the novel both in terms of narrative...
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Pick a number, any number
It’s been a stimulus to creative maths: Julia Gillard on ABC1’s Insiders program yesterday:…
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