For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Image of the week: Reverend Horace Tookes plays “Blue Bayou” on his trumpet for passersby at Civic Center on Thursday. Tookes can be heard playing in front of City Hall almost every day for a few hours. His last songs of the day are always the “Marines’ Hymm” or the “Star Spangled Banner.”
Those who step inside the Clarion Hotel and Convention Center in Bentonville today will be greeted by the chugging sound of locomotives. And for many in attendance, there's no sweeter sound. (Benton County Daily Record)
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Everything trains (NWAnews.com)
Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn: I had a conversation with a friend yesterday that floored me. She started off telling me that she was starting to feel better about her (roller-coaster) relationship of 10 months because the guy was finally putting her first and really trying. Next she told me she had stopped using birth control.
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CAROLYN HAX: Biological clock makes iffy guy look like dad material (Detroit Free Press)
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Couple may not be ready to have child (Courier-Post)
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Carolyn Hax (Washington Post)
BEIJING — Zhang Lan is the picture of Chinese success. She grew up in the countryside, the daughter of university professors sent down to the farm during the Cultural Revolution to learn how the peasants lived.
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Kicking the factory addiction (The Globe and Mail)
WINSLOW, Ariz. - Few and far between is the American of a certain age who cannot sing the lines: "Well, I'm a-standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona / And such a fine sight to see / It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford / Slowin' down to take a look at me." Though that corner, popularized in ...
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On the route to a renaissance (Boston Globe)
What's going on Around the Valley this weekend? Here's a look: The Heritage Christian School Family Winter Carnival will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the school on Durston Road. All are welcome.
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BATH — People have watched his wondrous progress through the years and it's hard to believe he's just 16 years old, but Morse High School junior James Wells is floating on the verge of swimming greatness.
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Rules the pool: Morse standout James Wells breaking state records, setting sights on 2012 Olympics (The Times Record)
As Prime Minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Jrgen Rttgers wanted to save one of his industrial state's biggest employers. So what did he do? He hopped a plane to Detroit, of course. On Feb. 18, Rttgers met with General Motors Chief Executive Rick Wagoner in an effort to persuade him not to shutter a factory in the city of Bochum, where 5,000 workers make sedans and minivans ...
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How the Crisis is Hitting Europe (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)