Perry's program: Business initiative or slush fund? (Dallas Morning News)
AUSTIN ? Bringing big business to Texas means spending big bucks....more...Perry's program: Business initiative or slush fund? (KVUE Austin)
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Also with this article: 'An example to the world' | Voices of India | India: the timeline Ten miles south of Delhi, where the dusty scrub has been cleared and replaced by an ocean of quick-setting concrete, India is road-testing a new vision of its future. Gurgaon is a satellite city with endless shopping malls, high-rise apartment blocks and more than one million people. It is also the ......more... Green light spells danger for traffic signals as bigots hit out at their least favourite colour (The Scotsman)
SCOTLAND'S sectarian shame is normally played out with chants on the football terraces or marches through the streets....more... Beijing Smog Forces Olympic Teams to Prepare for Asthma Attacks (Bloomberg.com)
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BATTLING TAKEOVER: Mayor Carlos Alvarez on Tuesday set the stage for what could be a protracted legal fight after the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development took over Miami-Dade County's long-troubled housing agency....more... Salmond to demand 'Scottish Six' from BBC (The Scotsman)
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As long as the expectation level regarding Kerry Wood returning to the Cubs pitching staff is at the lowest levels, the right-hander should be able to do his level-best to achieve it....more... |