Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask and Buzz Battle for Search Market
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The Mid-Valley Monarchs girls basketball program will be holding tryouts/sign-ups for its spring and summer teams.
Tryouts/sign-ups are Feb. 15 and Feb. 22 from 1-2:30 p.m. for eighth-graders and younger, 2:30-5 p.m. for ninth- to 12th-graders, and Feb.
Mexican General Seized, Slain In Cancun
President Felipe Calderon
and his top cabinet members attended Tello's full-dress military
funeral Wednesday and stood as an honor guard. The photograph spoke
volumes: Calderon, his defense secretary, his attorney general, his
security secretary,
Dunlap Observatory a site with astronomical potential
The University of Toronto sold the David Dunlap Observatory property in Richmond Hill to a developer last summer for $70 million.
As the observatory's future hangs in the balance, dozens of other facilities are thriving after reinventing
South Hill without heat, water during the weekend
Students in the South Hill Community lost heat and hot water services over the weekend, but both have been repaired, officials said.
The repairs to the hot-water system were announced in an e-mail sent to South Hill residents last night. Jack Baker,
LISD to consider school calendar tonight
Longview school trustees could take a step tonight toward unifying spring break in East Texas.
The school board is scheduled to consider approving its 2009-10 calendar at a 7 p.m. meeting at the Education Support Center, 1301 E. Young St. A community
Jobs creation bill on fast track at Capitol
Governor Nixon, a Democrat, wants a major jobs creation bill on his desk before the legislature takes spring break at mid-March. The House has acted quickly to approve a bill and send it to the Senate.
Nixon deflects a question about how many jobs the
Warrior in Drug Fight Soon Becomes a Victim
Tello, 63, along with his bodyguard and a driver, were kidnapped in downtown Cancun last Monday evening, taken to a hidden location, methodically tortured, then driven out to the jungle and shot in the head. Their bodies were found Tuesday in the cab
Duquesne hopes to capitalize on upset win
Moments after Duquesne's monumental win Saturday night over No. 9 Xavier, Dukes forward Bill Clark glad-handed fans who remained in the stands, while many others stormed the Palumbo Center court.
Clark and the Dukes outlasted the Atlantic 10-leading
The Past and Future of Global Markets
History is a nightmare from which I struggle to awake, concluded Leonard Bloom in James Joyces masterpiece Ulysses even though I doubt Mr. Bloom ever invested in subprime CDO excreta.
Marwari money changers in Akbars Fatehpur Sikri offered no
