11/18/2008 -
Focus on the Family eliminating 202 jobs
Focus on the Family announced today that it is eliminating 202 jobs in the coming weeks ? 149 through layoffs and 53 by not filling vacant positions. It's the biggest layoff in the history of the Colorado Springs-based ministry, and comes on top of 46 announced in October that will take effect at the beginning of 2009.
Source:
Rocky Mountain News
http://rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/nov/17/focus-family-eliminating-202-jobs/
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11/18/2008 -
Online backlash ends Motrin ad
Can a tongue-in-cheek ad for a popular pain reliever backfire and turn into a huge headache for one of the most respected health product marketers? You bet - if the ad appears to be making fun of new mothers and their babies.
Source:
SouthtownStar
http://www.southtownstar.com/business/1284235,motrin-ad-pulled-18.article
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11/18/2008 -
Attorney general wants to bolster fight against human trafficking
AUSTIN - A beautiful woman raped repeatedly and beaten beyond recognition. View pdf of report
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El Paso Times
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_11009847?source=rss
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11/18/2008 -
Zapiro takes the mic at Press Club
Love him or hate him, cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, aka Zapiro, certainly gets people talking. And his fighting spirit has not withered after the infamous "rape cartoons" that brought him death threats.
Source:
Cape Argus
http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=3571&fArticleId=vn2008102312
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11/17/2008 -
Slings and arrows: Online backlash ends Motrin ad
Can a tongue-in-cheek ad for a popular pain reliever backfire and turn into a huge headache for one of the most respected health product marketers? You bet _ if the ad appears to be making fun of new mothers and their babies. That's what happened over the...
Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/17/financial/f133650S37
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11/18/2008 -
Jim Rogers on emerging markets
The 19th century belonged to Britain, the world's foremost imperial power. The 20th century belonged to America, the land of the free. The 21st century belongs to Asia, and more specifically, China.
Source:
Investors Chronicle
http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/Columnists/GuestColumnists/article/20081118/
05adcf06-b556-11dd-9511-00144f2af8e8/Jim-Rogers-on-emerging-markets.jsp
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11/18/2008 -
New moms riled by Motrin ad
Can a tongue-in-cheek ad for a popular pain reliever backfire and turn into a huge headache for one of the most respected health-product marketers?
Source:
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/1044752.html
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11/18/2008 -
Harder times trigger a rise in poaching
POACHING is increasing as economic hard times tempt the unscrupulous to look to Wales? forests and rivers for money.
Source:
icWales
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/11/18/harder-times-trigger-a-r
ise-in-poaching-91466-22279252/
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11/18/2008 -
Is it not a wee bit
Is it not a wee bit premature to be chronicling the ?Howard Years?? Lets wait until Rudd has completed his term and part 2 of the China experiment and then the whole script will make complete sense. Bill and Ben, flower pot men.
Source:
New Matilda
http://newmatilda.com/2008/11/18/howard-years
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11/18/2008 -
Whitehaven News
A 44-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of illegal money lending and offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act on Tuesday. The North West Illegal Money Lending team, working with Cumbria Trading Standards and the Police, executed a warrant at an address in Cleator Moor.
Source:
The Whitehaven News
http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/news/people/1.268790
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11/17/2008 -
American Idol suicide
Harsh judges, heartbreaking verdict
Source:
The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081117.wcrosbie1811/BNStory
/Entertainment/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081117.wcrosbie1811
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11/17/2008 -
Johann Hari: The strange return of the sixties radicals
Their story seems strange even after all this time. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, small posses emerged from among the most privileged young...
Source:
HuffingtonPost
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-strange-return-of-the_b_144403.htm
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11/17/2008 -
"Animal Crossing Wii - What do you want?"
Der_tolle_Emil wrote: I never played any of the Animal Crossing games so I don't have much of a problem with it being too similar to earlier titles. The shops closing at six is a real problem for me though and I'm not so sure about fiddling with the time on the console just for one game.
Source:
EuroGamer
http://www.eurogamer.net/forum_thread_posts.php?thread_id=105246&start=150
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11/17/2008 -
Jolley: My Last Word On The Blessings & Curses Of The Election
Last week, I shared my thoughts on the excruciatingly long campaign for the President of the United States and what it might mean to agriculture as well as the country as a whole. Then I invited your thoughts.
Source:
CattleNetwork.com
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Content.asp?ContentID=269237
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11/17/2008 -
Bleeding Love
Just when it seemed Kate Moss and Jamie Hince?s relationship was firmly back on track, the pair have been having blazing rows once again. Unlike previous times though, it wasn?t party girl Kate?s wild behaviour that set them off ? it was a bottle of Jamie?s ex?s blood that he had as a keepsake.
Source:
My Kinda Place
http://www.mykindaplace.com/celebdirt/thedirt/?id=4297
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