12/05/2008 -
Chicago?s sweetest spots are turning out chocolatey holiday treats
If "Willy Wonka's" Charlie Bucket had lived in Chicago, he wouldn't have been able to visit his local chocolate factory even with a golden ticket; the famed Blommer Chocolate Company doesn't give tours of its River North facility.
Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/1314697,WKP-News-chocolate05.article
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12/05/2008 -
Injured student fights for life of normalcy
About 3 percent of University students are disabled and each story is different. Many were born with a handicap, and others acquired it later. Whether temporary or indefinite, both are life-changing. One pre-medicine student suddenly found himself paralyzed from the shoulders down during his sophomore year.
Source:
The Red and Black
http://www.redandblack.com/news/2008/12/05/Variety/Injured.Student.Fights.For.Li
fe.Of.Normalcy-3571676.shtml
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12/05/2008 -
ACHS grad risks life in tragic triple drowning
For several days after the accident at Mugu Rock, Katie Barrona couldn't dream. "And I have dreams all the time ," Barrona said. "I would sleep, wake up and . . . nothing.
Source:
Camarillo Acorn
http://www.thecamarilloacorn.com/news/2008/1205/front_page/002.html
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12/04/2008 -
Today: H -1 /L -6
The name of The Tyler Schwende Band's new album, Beautiful Catastrophe, is only a half-truth. Thankfully, the true half is the first bit: "Beautiful."
Source:
Guelph Mercury
http://news.guelphmercury.com/arts/article/411957
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12/04/2008 -
Keith Jarrett, Royal Festival Hall, London
"I LUV YOW KEITH!" It's not the kind of thing you expect to hear in the refined surroundings of the Royal Festival Hall, especially when the object of affection is not some callow boy-band crooner, but a respected pianist in his Sixties. And not just respected, but of a notably prickly disposition regarding audience behaviour at his improvised performances. For a moment, one wonders whether ...
Source:
Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/keith-jarrett-roya
l-festival-hall-london-1050509.html
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12/03/2008 -
Time Out Theater Review: "Back Back Back"
"Back Back Back" is a new Off-Broadway work about America's favorite past time. NY1 contributing correspondent David Cote of Time Out New York filed the following review.
Source:
NY1 News
http://www.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/89966/time-out-theater-review---back-back-
back-/Default.aspx
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12/03/2008 -
Pro and Con
RHETORICALLY SPEAKING: Denzel Washington's Latest Appeals to The Heart More Than The Head.
Source:
Baltimore City Paper
http://www.citypaper.com/film/review.asp?rid=12622
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12/02/2008 -
Britney Spears will perform in Anaheim
Also coming to O.C.: Elton John and Billy Joel.
Source:
Orange County Register
http://soundcheck.freedomblogging.com/2008/12/02/new-shows-britney-billy-elton-b
rooks-dunn-slipknot/3196/
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12/01/2008 -
Small caps see worst day of 2008; MNT, PGI and TLVT lead gainers
The Russell 2000 closed down 11.85% today, snapping a string of five consecutive winning sessions with the worst daily loss of the year.
Source:
SmallCapInvestor.com via Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/smallcapinvestor/081201/14085.html?.v=1
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12/01/2008 -
Manufacturing worries capsize recent rally; largest 1-day loss of 2008
Small caps may have finished out Nov. like a lamb, but they started out Dec. like a lion, sinking hard and fast.
Source:
SmallCapInvestor.com via Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/smallcapinvestor/081201/14083.html?.v=1
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12/01/2008 -
Russell continues free fall; PGI, ERI, and EGY lead gainers
Small-cap stocks extended the morning free fall, with financial, retail and commodity sectors all taking a beating as investors recoiled from a batch of brutal manufacturing data from around the...
Source:
SmallCapInvestor.com via Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/smallcapinvestor/081201/14065.html?.v=1
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12/01/2008 -
Financial, retail, commodity stocks pace small-cap swoon
Looking at individual broad market sectors, there are none above 1% gains right now, and 10 sectors with losses greater than 10%.
Source:
SmallCapInvestor.com via Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/smallcapinvestor/081201/14061.html?.v=1
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12/01/2008 -
Sounds cool, this battle of bands
MANILA, Philippines?Some 3,000 college kids trooped to the PhilSports Arena in Pasig recently to witness the crowning of the 2008 Nescafe Soundskool battle of the bands grand champion.
Source:
Philippine Daily Inquirer
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20081202-17
5529/Sounds-cool-this-battle-of-bands
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11/30/2008 -
Irving Berlin?s Snow Business
In almost a century?s worth of songs, Irving Berlin put our times to music.
Source:
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/theater/30gree.html?em
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12/01/2008 -
Condo owners caught in crossfire of builder dispute
As the sun set over Potomac Yard on Nov. 7, owners at The Eclipse condominium community came home to an unpleasant surprise.
Source:
BizJournals
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/12/01/story4.html?ana=from_rs
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