Zut Alors!

Civilise the City

2008-05-05T23:07:27Z

London, October 2004 A large band of tweedy revolutionaries toasted Mr. Beau Brummell with their hip flasks at his memorial on Jermyn Street, SW1, before proceeding northwards, with a pause to admire the fine wares in the windows of Jermyn St...

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6-Year-Old Hailed After Calling 911 For Mom

2008-04-26T18:23:05Z

Boy Guides Medics After Mom Passes Out April 25, 2008 COLUMBUS, Ind. -- The family of a Columbus kindergarten student is thankful he paid attention to lessons about whom to call in an emergency. Jared Lebrun, 6, recently was alone with his pregn...

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Egypt Catches Mummy Smugglers

2008-03-13T05:21:09Z

By MAGGIE MICHAEL The Associated Press Wednesday, March 12, 2008 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Egyptian police confiscated four ancient mummies on Wednesday and arrested three antiquities smugglers who had stolen them from an ancient graveyard, a security...

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India to Create 8 New Tiger Sanctuaries

2008-02-13T22:19:34Z

By ASHOK SHARMA The Associated Press Wednesday, February 13, 2008 NEW DELHI -- Conservationists welcomed an Indian government plan to create eight new reserves to protect the country's dwindling tiger population, and called Wednesday for more act...

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Student's mouth-to-muzzle saves tiger cub

2008-02-04T21:42:57Z

by Iain Rogers Fri Feb 1, 2008 BERLIN (Reuters) - A German medical student got some unexpected practical experience at the zoo when she gave the kiss of life to a baby tiger choking on a piece of meat, the zoo director said Friday. The student w...

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Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags

2008-02-03T16:18:34Z

New York Times By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Published: February 2, 2008 DUBLIN — There is something missing from this otherwise typical bustling cityscape. There are taxis and buses. There are hip bars and pollution. Every other person is talking into ...

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Man Wins, Then Loses, Then Wins Lottery

2008-02-01T00:08:05Z

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian retiree won a $1.8 million lottery prize, then lost it, and then won it again Wednesday through a court ruling. Werner Reinhold bought the lottery ticket at a newsstand in Australia'...

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Photo clues lead to camera's owner

2008-01-26T05:25:52Z

By BRIAN BERGSTEIN AP Technology Writer Fri Jan 25, 2008 At dusk on New Year's Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. Sitting on the back seat was a nice Canon digital camera. Gunderson asked the...

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Whole Foods Chain to Stop Use of Plastic Bags

2008-01-23T20:53:04Z

New York Times By Andrew Martin January 23, 2008 The Whole Foods Market chain said Tuesday that it would stop offering plastic grocery bags, giving customers instead a choice between recycled paper or reusable bags. A rising number of governmen...

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