Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
In the concrete jungle of New York City, ice cream trucks in the summer time are as common as the delayed subway trains and the curious smells that emanate from below. This year, vendors are churning out creative tricks and gimmicks to attract customers against the backdrop of an economic recession, negative press over drugs and turf wars, and downright lousy weather. Muggy and rainy, the ...
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Ice cream antics in Gotham City (People's Daily)
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Everyone's favourite locomotive from the Island of Sodor is back again for another year. And despite a recession, A Day Out With Thomas is more popular than ever, says a co-organizer for the event.
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One popular visitor (St. Thomas Times-Journal)
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
The cost of GO Transit isn't worth it I am curious, with all the GO transit hype, why The Standard, with all of its articles, has yet to do an article regarding the cost to the Ontario taxpayer to run two return trains daily to Niagara.
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Letters to the editor (St. Catharines Standard)
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday gave a city a belated gift of a non-stop train to Delhi and also promised to develop Ajni as a model station.
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Belatedly, didi gifts a train to Nagpur (The Times of India)
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
NEW DELH: The media rush to snatch an exclusive pose or a byte seemed to grow more by the hour, once Mamata Banerjee had finished her budget speech and stepped out of the House. But the railway minister wore her smile, greeted all and spoke to some, without showing any discomfort.
More here: I have catered to every state, not just Bengal: Mamata (The Times of India)
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Despite the state not getting much from the railway budget, people here have a reason to be happy. Cuttack railway station is among those that will be developed into model stations.
More here: No new trains but Cuttack happy (The Times of India)
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
WASHINGTON: US police said they are following some "good" tips in the case of the shooting death of Gurjeet Singh, an Indian American gas station clerk in Gary, Indiana and hope to arrest the suspects.
Continue here: US police have 'good' clues about Gurjeet's murder (The Times of India)
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Set up in 2003, Iimpact's, an NGO created by IIM-A's 1978 batch, has 9,000 girls in 275 centres across Rajasthan, UP, Karnataka, Jharkand and Haryana.
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B-school makes impact on these girls' lives (The Times of India)
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
MCLELLAN WINS FEATURE VARNEY -- Mount Forest's Jason McLellan won the late model feature race at the Varney Motor Speedway on Saturday. Mono Mills' Jason Ahlborn was second and Rockwood's Jeff Lotspeich was third.
Continue here: Sports Briefs (Owen Sound Sun Times)
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Nanton was bursting with spectators and participants with an action-packed weekend of Planes, Trains and Elevators, and a Canadian Girls Rodeo Association rodeo on Saturday.
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