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Bill Drzal said he expects t... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33115183/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:14:18 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33115183/ City and state police said traffic is flowing normally through Pittsburgh with minimal exception this morning. The 10th Street Bypass was closed to traffic due to water encroaching from the Allegheny... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33115184/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:14:18 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33115184/ There are, the Penguins figure, some features in the city's new multi-purpose arena that fans simply won't be able to miss when the building opens in a few months. The new scoreboard and video screen... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33115185/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:14:17 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33115185/ An infant and two adults were hurt in a three-vehicle crash this morning in Point Breeze. An emergency dispatch supervisor said the accident happened at 1:13 a.m. today at the corner of Penn Avenue a... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33114039/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:46:47 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33114039/ A fire marshal has been sent to investigate a blaze that started in a tractor-trailer then spread to a house on Neville Island. An emergency dispatch supervisor said the fire started at 4:32 a.m. tod... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33114040/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:46:47 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33114040/ Two people were critically injured during a police chase that began in the city and ended in Penn Hills. An Allegheny County emergency dispatch supervisor confirmed that the chase began at about 4:37... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33112761/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:36:34 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33112761/ Roving police patrols throughout the city of Pittsburgh following the St. Patrick's Day parade yielded eight arrests for drunken driving. The statistic is for the hours between 6 p.m. Saturday and 4 ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33112762/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:36:34 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33112762/ 1 Why is a Sierra critter named Buddy so special? A: He's a repeat offender bear who breaks into vacation homes B: Wolverine, a species thought to be gone from Sierra, reappears after 90 years C: It's... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110057/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:40:07 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110057/ All of you who oppose the health-insurance-reform bill because you don't want the government to run our health care, and you get your coverage through Medicare, the Veterans Administration, MediCal, g... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110058/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:40:04 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110058/ The most important member of Congress this month may be a man you've never heard of: Jason Altmire, a painfully earnest former hospital executive from near Pittsburgh. Why? Because as Jason Altmire go... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110967/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:09:22 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110967/ How unpopular is Gordon Brown? According to one Conservative member of Parliament, even "a monkey on a stick" could defeat the British prime minister in the forthcoming general election.Just one in fo... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110968/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:09:19 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110968/ There have been two features that regularly mark the history of U.S. public schools. Over the last century, our education system has been regularly captivated by a Big Idea -- a savant or an organizat... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110969/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:09:17 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110969/ Cuts to ambulance service are on hold pending further study, but layoffs of child-care workers at city parks are moving forward. Library hours and service days are on the chopping block. DASH bus serv... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110970/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:09:16 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110970/ University of Colorado officials were a bit slow off the mark in beginning an independent review of problems that have emerged at their dental school. Initially, we were concerned the school wasn't d... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110965/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:51:15 -0400 Denver Post http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110965/ People who blow through red lights deserve to get caught. So it makes sense for cities across Colorado to install more cameras at problem intersections to snap pictures of those breaking the law. But... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110966/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:51:12 -0400 Denver Post http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110966/ CNBC announced today at the Bahrain Grand Prix, that it will create a regional editorial hub in Bahrain to cover the Middle East. The facility is expected to be operational in the second quarter of th... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110107/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:48:19 -0400 AME Info http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33110107/ An identified “transit” country for people escaping war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Sri Lanka, Indonesia has become a focus point of the Australian government’s anti-refugee age... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108776/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:26 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108776/ Witness Roy Bramwell told the re-opened inquest into Aboriginal man Mulrunji Doomadgee’s death on March 8 that police threatened to “come after him”, as they crushed his original damning witness... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109818/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:25 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109818/ His track record as a minister in John Howard’s conservative government certainly suggested a preference for redistributing wealth in the other direction: towards big business. When he toppled pr... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109819/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:25 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109819/ People could be forgiven for thinking that the only thing that the Man Who Would Be Prime Minister (a.k.a Tony Abbott) did during his sojourn to the Northern Territory was get lost for a couple of hou... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109648/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:24 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109648/ James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, admits he’d prefer to spend his time out of the public eye... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109820/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:23 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109820/ Western Australia needs a broad and inclusive mass movement to stop the Barnett government’s push to privatise public services and smash public sector workers’ conditions. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109672/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:22 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109672/ Stock markets Meanwhile, the stock markets are dizzy with the expectation of profits from the export of thermal coal from vast new Queensland mines. It is not surprising that Australia’s conserv... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109821/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:22 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109821/ The Sandon Point community, on the New South Wales south coast, has been fighting for decades to protect the area from developers. Sandon Point is a declared Aboriginal site, significant for ecologica... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109822/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:22 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109822/ One feature of the otherwise successful Perth rally against internet censorship on March 6 was an attempt by a far-right political group to hijack the event. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109635/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:21 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109635/ A Tasmanian opinion poll released on February 24 by EMRS has stunned political commentators throughout Australia, with headlines noting the surge in support for the Greens. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109823/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:21 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109823/ They point to the leaked e-mails from a British university in December that suggested climate scientists were discussing how to avoid public-information laws. They detail recent revelations that a key... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109148/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:58:00 -0400 The Tennessean http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109148/ Utahns never have been big fans of national education standards. Education is locally controlled and mostly funded through local property taxes and state income tax. While the federal government prov... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108571/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:38:45 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108571/ In the end, Utah's public schools took a little hit from the just-finished legislative session. That's not good news, but give me a break. Look at what's happening elsewhere. Kansas City may have to ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108572/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:38:44 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108572/ We thank the Academy for holding the famous awards ceremony contemporaneously with the close of the Utah Legislature. Indeed, both activities are similar because actors and politicians excelling in dr... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108573/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:38:43 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108573/ WASHINGTON — As the war in Afghanistan intensifies — Marjah, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops — it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not so. It'... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108574/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:38:41 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108574/ According to actual scientific research by actual scientists, basketball star Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics has been known to reach out and touch four other guys within 600 milliseconds of shoot... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108578/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:38:38 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108578/ Mysticism is dying, and taking true religion with it. Monasteries have dwindled. Contemplative orders have declined. Our religious leaders no longer preach the renunciation of the world; our culture s... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108575/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:38:37 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108575/ I don't know what we've been thinking all these years. Daylight saving time is so wonderful. It's hard for me to figure out why our civilization didn't collapse from 1776 to 1918 when we didn't have i... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108581/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:38:36 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108581/ I wonder what today's (Tuesday, March 9) front-page article was supposed to accomplish? Whether the public thinks the district split was fair or not is irrelevant. Personally, I believe it ought to ha... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108579/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:38:34 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108579/ Two homes in the River Road area had flooded Saturday night in South Huntingdon and firefighters from local companies were going door-to-door to warn residents of the rising water, a Westmoreland Coun... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109814/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:33:59 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109814/ Brett Satterfield, right, Web master of Rollier's Hardware's online site, sits with his brother, Derek, in a former conference room that has been turned into a packing center at the store in Mt. Leban... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109816/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:33:59 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109816/ NEW YORK -- A friend of Georgetown coach John Thompson III told him the other day that there's nothing better than Friday night in New York, other than Saturday night in New York. Looks like someone'... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109815/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:33:58 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109815/ He grew up when the Wabash country still had a frontier ethic, came to power as America was sensing its own potential for power and became perhaps the most powerful man in William Howard Taft's Washin... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109817/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:33:57 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33109817/ I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable defender of U.S. interests abroad. So it pains me to say that on his recent trip to Israel, when Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33107407/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:27:24 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33107407/ NEW YORK -- A friend of Georgetown coach John Thompson III told him the other day that there's nothing better than Friday night in New York, other than Saturday night in New York. Looks like someone'... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108362/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:10:47 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108362/ West Virginia?s Da?Sean Butler drives into a Georgetown crowd and puts up what proved to be the winning shot in the Mountaineers? 60-58 victory at Madison Square Garden. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108363/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:10:47 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108363/ U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts presides over one of the most closeted and insular institutions in the nation. He and his fellow Supreme Court justices send down their legal thunderbolts like Zeus fro... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108364/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:10:46 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108364/ That whooshing sound you hear is traffic whizzing by, from one place to another, with record low fatalities. The U.S. Department of Transportation reports that the death rate of 1.16 per 100 million ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108365/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:10:46 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108365/ Here's what conservatives are planning in their latest effort to kill health care reform: A group called Americans for Prosperity (prosperity for its chairman and founder, oil billionaire David H. Ko... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108366/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:10:45 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33108366/ PRWEB ) March 13, 2010 -- Jed A. Kwartler, M.D., otologist/neurotologist with Summit Medical Group, has been named to the editorial board of Otology/Neurotology. The official journal of the American O... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33105709/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:23:21 -0500 PR Web http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33105709/ NEW YORK -- The Butler did it again. Da'Sean Butler, West Virginia's last-second magician, made the game-winning shot with four seconds remaining Saturday night to give the Mountaineers their first B... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33106956/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:43:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33106956/ The countries that have left the United States behind in math and science education have one thing in common: They offer the same high education standards — often the same curriculum — from ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33105635/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:31:44 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33105635/ drove his Ford into Brad Keselowski’s Dodge as the two raced around the Atlanta Motor Speedway at 190 miles per hour. Keselowski’s car flew into the air and crashed into the wall along the... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33105438/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:31:41 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33105438/ Winter's white gave through to St. Patrick's green today as thousands lined the streets of Pittsburgh for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. The event, which lays claim to being one of the nation's... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33105636/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:15:50 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33105636/ When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present . And yet … today when I watch that old commercial about balancing kids, work and husband with gusto, I am tor... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33103201/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:10:09 -0500 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33103201/ In September 2004, Tony Blair set out a new public sector performance target. By the end of the following year the number of failed asylum seekers being deported each month would exceed the number of ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33103250/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:42:04 -0500 The Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33103250/ Spare a thought for the typical Catholic priest. His image has been blackened by successive child abuse scandals, first in Ireland and America, now in Germany, Holland and Italy. His vocation is vanis... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33103251/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:42:01 -0500 The Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33103251/ Ursula Hyzy I AFP THE woes and failings of euro zone member Greece have sparked irritation among the EU’s ex-communist states, amid jitters that the entry rules for the single currency club coul... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33104422/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:14:44 -0500 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33104422/ John Rentoul I The Independent AH, the paradoxes of politics. In order to be seen as authentic, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has to do what he regards as inauthentic, namely to emote on televis... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33104421/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:14:43 -0500 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33104421/ M.J. Akbar I Arab News THE best way to manage a controversy is to initiate it. Omar Abdullah was not giving voice to some sudden inner revelation when he suggested that the “boys” who had ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33104423/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:14:38 -0500 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33104423/ Alan Hart MOST Jews of the world (and probably many Gentiles) believe that Zionism is the return of Jews to the land promised to them by God. I must confess, and do so cheerfully, that I don’t b... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33104425/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:14:37 -0500 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33104425/ IT'S a bright sunny day and just through the doors of the Red Road flats there are two YMCA Glasgow ladies manning the concierge desk. Both are pictures of efficient bonhomie, croaking with laughter a... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101688/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:28 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101688/ ut something like one in four male adults by the time they are 22 have a conviction. So I have joined the bottom 25 per cent."He makes the comment with a rueful grin but, for the first time in this, h... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101687/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:27 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101687/ The once squeaky clean Take That star's marriage hit the rocks last week when he admitted having up to ten affairs in the five years he has been with his wife Emma. Owen – who wed at Cawdor Church n... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101686/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:25 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101686/ oots and breeches, saddles and silks. Everything is placed on benches and pegs in strict order, starting with the most experienced jockey nearest the door and descending through the ranks to the amate... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101685/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:24 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101685/ P has never been a more credible political party. At a time when the people of Scotland are looking for hope, for leadership, for ideas and inspiration about the better Scotland, the better economy, t... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101690/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:22 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101690/ HAVING left politics for law, I find myself divided over the criticism of the three Labour MPs and one Tory Peer who now seek to challenge whether the courts have jurisdiction to hear their cases. The... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101689/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:20 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101689/ I WAS reading a report about a new service called "Cinderella Me". No, it's not some joker who sends mice to your house (think he's already been round to Turner Towers). No, this is a company that loa... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101691/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:18 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101691/ Yes, I'm Alice and – like Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler and Marie Antoinette before me – I'm a teetotaller. There's no dramatic reason behind my decision to abstain from the giggle juice, but ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101692/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:16 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101692/ IF IT were true that we learn more from failure than success I could qualify for Mastermind on the subject of sheep, particularly methods tried to revive a moribund lamb. So often in the final throes ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101693/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:14 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101693/ IT IS commonly known as Murphy's Law or, more prosaically, Sod's Law, and its premise is that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. So, to use the most commonly cited example, a slice of toast dro... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101694/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:13 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101694/ But MSP credibility has taken a severe dip after Tuesday's no-show, with Labour and SNP members refusing to cross a union picket line. The MSPs decided to take a day off from parliament rather than up... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101695/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:16:12 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101695/ Even tough critics of the health care reform bills acknowledge that the legislation would accomplish a worthy goal: extending coverage to 30 million Americans without insurance. At the same time, heal... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101704/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:58:10 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101704/ 1 Why is a Sierra critter named Buddy so special? A: He's a repeat offender bear who breaks into vacation homes B: Wolverine, a species thought to be gone from Sierra, reappears after 90 years C: It's... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33100452/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:12:58 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33100452/ PERESTROIKA, the series of political and economic reforms I undertook in the Soviet Union in 1985, has been the subject of heated debate ever since. Today the controversy has taken on a new urgency &#... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33100519/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:46:55 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33100519/ Share (AP) ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York politics, which has consumed more than a dozen elected officials or top staffers in the past two years, has become a kind of bizarre "Survivor" show. And althou... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101382/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:39:09 -0500 CBS News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101382/ FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Paul Maholm turned in the Pirates' best start of the spring and Delwyn Young homered in a 3-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox Saturday at City of Palms Park. Maholm pitched three score... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101381/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:31:30 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33101381/ March 13, 2010 This week, the District of Columbia started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. About 150 couples applied for the licenses and soon, there was a flurry of weddings — so... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33097166/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:17:48 -0500 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33097166/ Winter's white gave through to St. Patrick's green today as thousands lined the streets of Pittsburgh for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. The event, which lays claim to being one of the nation's... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33098233/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:38:05 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33098233/ People thorughout Western Pennsylvania are looking to the skies and their basements as rain continued to fall this morning, with the potential for flooding in some areas. The National Weather Service... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33097047/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:09:04 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33097047/ LANCASTER, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania man convicted of the rape and murder of a young mother more than two decades ago says he has changed his mind -- again -- and now wants to continue his appeals rather ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33097046/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:09:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/33097046/