Archive for April, 2007

FBI investigates threatening letters about cheerleaders

Friday, April 27th, 2007

The FBI offered a $5,000 reward Tuesday for help tracking down whoever mailed dozens of threatening letters — including some containing a potentially harmful insecticide — complaining about TV coverage of college cheerleaders.

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Portland’s Stumptown Coffee Roasters coming to Seattle | Seattle Times

Friday, April 27th, 2007

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Stumptown Coffee Roasters, the biggest deal in Portland coffee, is bringing its beans to Seattle.

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Mexico City Legalizes Abortion

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Mexico City lawmakers voted to legalize abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, a landmark decision likely to heighten church-state tensions in the Roman Catholic nation and lead to a bitter court battle.

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New Orleans hearts fried chicken | Salon Life

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Willie Mae, the matriarch of Creole cooking, lost everything in Katrina. Now the 91-year-old is frying drumsticks again, thanks to John Currence and other top Southern chefs.

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News Wires

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Overweight workers cost their bosses more in injury claims than their lean colleagues, suggests a study that found the heaviest employees had twice the rate of workers’ compensation claims as their fit co-workers.

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Tough titties | Salon Life

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Jessica Valenti, author of the new book “Full Frontal Feminism,” discusses sex positivity, activism and boob flashing as a feminist statement.

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A tale of two horrors | Salon.com

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

The Virginia Tech massacre made America shudder. But will it awaken us to the nightmare of suffering in Iraq?

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The 100 unsexiest men 2007

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

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Miss America 1944 shoots at intruder

Friday, April 20th, 2007

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Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle’s tires and stop an intruder. Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.

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