Archive for February, 2009

Train station could be new home for Asbury model train club (Asbury Park Press)

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

City officials and the Garden State Central Model Railroad Club are looking at the possibility of the club moving its operations to the city train station now that the group has to leave the site it had for 35 years below an Eighth Avenue doctor's office.

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Train station could be new home for Asbury model train club (Asbury Park Press)

One year after the massacres, Kenya’s runners reflect (The Christian Science Monitor)

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Grisly stories seem to hang in the air above Kenya's Rift Valley, where many of the country's world-class runners train.

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One year after the massacres, Kenya's runners reflect (The Christian Science Monitor)

Does your daughter need a mentor? (Asheville Citizen-Times)

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

ASHEVILLE – Due to an increase in the number of women applying to become big sisters, Big Brothers, Big Sisters in Buncombe County is increasing efforts to reach single parents whose daughters between the ages of 6 and 14 would benefit from having an additional positive role model in their lives.

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Does your daughter need a mentor? (Asheville Citizen-Times)

From fit to fat … Trainer piles on the pounds ‘to identify with his overweight clients’ (Daily Mail)

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

A fitness trainer and former model has swapped his six-pack for a paunch - in a bid to understand his overweight gym clients.

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From fit to fat ... Trainer piles on the pounds 'to identify with his overweight clients' (Daily Mail)

A year after election violence, Kenyan runners remain divided (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

ELDORET, Kenya — Enough time has passed that Nehemiah Kosgei can be candid about what he did a year ago, when this hilltop town famous for producing world-class distance runners gained a grim new notoriety as the center of a shocking explosion of ethnic violence in Kenya.

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A year after election violence, Kenyan runners remain divided (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)

Choo-choo fans find joy at train show (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

In the midst of a national tour, the Greenberg's Great Train Show chugged into Henrietta this weekend with a full display of model train sets, electronic train layouts and memorabilia.

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Choo-choo fans find joy at train show (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

SpiceJet CEO on fare wars (rediff.com)

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Some maturity needs to come to the rationalisation of the fares for the sector to succeed.

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They heard that lonesome whistle blow (San Antonio Express-News)

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Among the show's roughly 25,000 visitors this weekend, it was the grandparents and grandchildren who most readily understood the fascination of the thousands of feet of model railroad layouts and the cities, towns and landscapes created to go with them. World's Greatest Hobby Model Train Show

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They heard that lonesome whistle blow (San Antonio Express-News)

A model artist, here and now (Haaretz Daily)

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

It's back to the studio for Yair Garbuz. At the end of this academic year he will leave the art school at the Beit Berl Teachers Training College ("Hamidrasha"), which he has directed for 12 years.

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Sanjay Aggarwal (Business Standard India)

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

The Indian aviation sector experienced turbulent weather in 2008, as costs went beyond control, demand contracted and losses increased; major airlines are estimated to have incurred a loss of Rs 3,000 crore on domestic operations.

Continue here: Sanjay Aggarwal (Business Standard India)