Inside the Games

July 24 – Auckland officials have begun undertaking preliminary work on a bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games , before a NZ$325000 (£125367) feasibility study, co-funded by central and local Government, begins next month. …

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Ousted Honduran president takes symbolic step onto home soil, then …

Zelaya briefly steps into Honduras _ now what?OCOTAL, Nicaragua — Ousted President Manuel Zelaya stood on the edge of his country and called on his fellow Hondurans to resist the coup-installed government.

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The Arts in the Recession: It Helps to Think Locally | 4VF News …

In Washington there are bailouts to be had for banks and car companies, but what about Portland’s Oregon Ballet Theatre? OBT’s 20th anniversary season is around the corner, but its budget has dropped 28%.

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Commercial Appeal May Move Printing; Cut 115 Jobs …

Memphis, Tennessee’s The Commercial Appeal newspaper may move its printing operations to Journal Publishing in Tupelo, Mississippi, eliminating up to 115.

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Iran activists work to elude crackdown on Internet | Home >> Other …

CAIRO (AP) – The tweets still fly and the videos hit YouTube whenever protesters take to the streets in Iran — even as the Internet battle there turns more grueling.

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Cafe Hayek: Will Pres. Obama's Health-Care 'Reform' Controls Costs …

I’m surprised that Paul Krugman, writing in today’s New York Times, points to Massachusetts’s three-year-old program for creating universal health -insurance coverage in that state as a model for America. Krugman himself – in a column …

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Rationing of Health Care | etbe – Russell Coker

Peter Singer wrote an interesting article for the New York Times which makes a good case for rationing health care on the basis of a ratio of the amount of.

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Travel Safely Abroad With This Government Mashup

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Existing home sales rise in June for the third consecutive month …

Existing home sales show signs of recoveryWASHINGTON — The US housing market is finally on the mend after its most far-reaching collapse in 70 years. That could help rebuild consumer confidence and revive the economy.

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