12/04/2008 -
As More Eat Meat, a Bid to Cut Emissions
Farm emissions are being discussed during international talks on a new treaty to combat global warming.
Source:
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/science/earth/04meat.html?em
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12/05/2008 -
Theirs and Theirs alone
A few years ago, when Michael Donovan, the uncle of Karen Matthews' ex-partner, was employed as a delivery driver, his boss sent him out to put £20 of diesel in the van.
Source:
Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5289259.ece
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12/05/2008 -
Free prescriptions a con trick, say Tories
THE Assembly Government flagship policy of free prescriptions was yesterday described as a ?con trick? by Welsh Conservatives.
Source:
icWales
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/12/05/free-prescriptions-a-con
-trick-say-tories-91466-22408992/
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12/03/2008 -
Potential World Heritage boreal forest valued at $130M annually: study
A vast tract of boreal forest in Manitoba and Ontario, touted by some as a potential World Heritage Site, has an estimated economic value of between $121 million and $130 million a year, a study suggests.
Source:
CBC via Yahoo! Canada News
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/081203/canada/winnipeg_world_heritage_1
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12/05/2008 -
A K Bhattacharya: Elite media for elite India
The government will respond to the threat to the very idea of India. That is what Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said soon after taking charge of his new ministry on Monday. These were reassuring thoughts coming as they did in the wake of the terror attacks on Mumbai last week.
Source:
Business Standard India
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-k-bhattacharya-elite-media-for-eli
te-india/11/39/342082/
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12/04/2008 -
U.N. Climate Agency Under the Weather, Says Report
As more than 10,000 delegates and observers gather in Poznan, Poland, to discuss the next phase in the battle against "climate change," a U.N. agency at the center of that hoopla badly needs to do some in-house weather-proofing.
Source:
Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,461649,00.html
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12/04/2008 -
Wary consumers
Economic hardship greets The Box as it arrives in LA
Source:
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/in_depth/7764246.stm
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12/05/2008 -
Houston Holiday Events
The Downtown Houston Holiday Experience will bring life to the streets of downtown with two new holiday components located at main street square, downtown?s new retail core featuring Macy?s, The Shops at Houston Center and the new Houston Pavilions; and the new urban park, Discovery Green.
Source:
Greater Houston Weekly
http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2008/12/05//greater_houston_weekly/top_of_the_
week//1119_houston_holiday_guide.txt
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12/03/2008 -
Australia's quarterly growth slows to 0.1 percent
Australia's economy scraped bottom in the third quarter, growing at its slowest pace in eight years as the global financial crisis sapped consumer spending and demand for the country's vast reserves of iron ore and other resources.
Source:
AP via Yahoo! Singapore News
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081203/tbs-as-australia-economy-f49743c.html
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12/05/2008 -
Cook still number one grain grower
NOEL Cook again tops Queensland Country Life's list of grain growers in the State with a full crop harvested this year.
Source:
Queensland Country Life
http://qcl.farmonline.com.au/news/state/grains-and-cropping/general/cook-still-n
umber-one-grain-grower/1378819.aspx
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12/05/2008 -
GIRLS GOLF: Sectional caps strong campaign for Maroons
Coach Kathy Baldus hoped that depth would be a plus for the Belleville West girls golf team and she wasn't disappointed.
Source:
Suburban Journals
http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/articles/2008/12/05/monroe/sports//1203ent-
westgirls0.txt
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12/04/2008 -
Economic hardship greets The Box in LA
The Box - a BBC-branded container that travels the globe to illustrate how globalisation works - arrives in the US
Source:
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/7764246.stm
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12/05/2008 -
A K Bhattacharya: Elite media for elite India
The government will respond to the threat to the very idea of India. That is what Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said soon after taking charge of his new ministry on Monday. These were reassuring thoughts coming as they did in the wake of the terror attacks on Mumbai last week.
Source:
Business Standard India
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-k-bhattacharya-elite-media-for-eli
te-india/11/24/342082/
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12/05/2008 -
?Mamma Mia!? delivers with its energetic froth of ABBA tunes
NEW HAVEN ? If you can rip yourself away from ?Oprah? for a few hours, you can see one of this generation?s more successful cultural curiosities, ?Mamma Mia!? playing at the Shubert Theater through Sunday.
Source:
New Haven Register
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2008/12/05/entertainment/1204mammamiareview.t
xt
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12/04/2008 -
Six in 10 oppose auto bailout, poll shows
A national poll suggests that six in 10 Americans oppose using taxpayer money to help the ailing major U.S. auto companies.
Source:
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/03/auto.poll/index.html?section=cnn_latest
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