YOUR GUILD AWARDS NOMINATION OMISSIONS FOR '08/'09 - Chud.com
I'm much less interested in the all-inclusive nature of the Academy Awards than I am in the recognition doled out by various guilds. It's much more telling (though no less political, I realize) to see who among their own the guilds choose to nominate ...
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Diversion becomes serious quest for new knowledge on extinct marine ... - University of Chicago Chronicle
Riccardo Levi-Setti, Professor Emeritus in Physics, looks over a specimen of the giant trilobite species he co-discovered with Jan Bergström, professor emeritus at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. Just as Levi-Setti is known in ...
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Local musician: Bloomington ?a hotspot of blues? - Bedford Times-Mail
BLOOMINGTON ? Practitioners of the blues have always been transient in nature. Historically, bluesmen were of the sort that moved from town to town, wherever the work was. In fact, the legacy of blues is of a music that?s reflective of hard times ...
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Unusual cardinal visits Rock Island yard - Quad-Cities Times
Bob Motz has seen lots of amazing wildlife in a lifetime of observing nature ? giant tortoises on the Galapagos Islands, millions of monarch butterflies in the mountains of Mexico and lions in Tanzania, Africa. But he experienced a ?first? last ...
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Why Are Deer Being Smuggled into Texas? - Yahoo News
The sight of deer munching in suburban gardens is a common one across America, particularly in places like Texas' hill country , where at holiday time the ubiquitous roadside deer-warning signs are decorated with round red stickers by an anonymous ...
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Bulgaria 2008 Review: Society - Sofia News Agency
2008 was marked by the most active environmentalist campaigns in Bulgaria's history, which demonstrated the real meaning of the term "civil society". A host of different NGOs united in the "For the Nature" Coalition in order counter various ...
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Illegal activities involving sales of rare wild orchids can lead to ... - star.com.my
JOHOR BARU: Illegal activities involving smuggling and sales of rare wild orchids could lead to the extinction of the endangered species and disrupt the biodiversity of Malaysian jungles. Technical adviser to the Malaysian Nature Society, Vincent ...
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Column: Film documents sale of virginity on eBay auction - University of Cincinnati News Record
Today's Fortune: Society will continue to get more shocking. Virginity for sale! That's what one winning film from the Cannes Film Festival explored. Buy It Now, winner of the Cinéfondation Award, revolves around a 16-year-old girl who decides to ...
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Jan 04 - Jan 10 (194) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Obama's first year in Iraq is going to be tougher than Bush's last year. Three reasons for that: First, three rounds of elections are scheduled in 2009, and those tend to be violent in Iraq. Second, the easy U.S. troop withdrawals have been made, and ...
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Lake Region Audubon Society Honored - The Ledger
Let's give a round of applause to the Lake Region Audubon Society. This group was honored with the prestigious 2008 Audubon of Florida Best Chapter Award. It was presented to them last quarter at the Plantation Inn near Crystal River. The Steering ...
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