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Facebook for the kindergarten set
IT would be easy to assume that the first month of Cameron Chase's life followed the monotonous cycle of eat-sleep-poop familiar to any new parent. But anyone who has read his oft-updated profile on Totspot, a site billed as Facebook for kid, knows g Sep 12 2008
Faced with global slump, can china keep up economic growth?
For three decennary, China has fueled its remarkable economic rise by becoming the world's shop and unleashing a flood of low-priced exports. But faced with a possible global recession and weakening demand for Chinese exports, the inquiry now is whet Oct 23 2008
Facing her doubters, clinton remains stoic
Edmund Hillary Rodham Bill Clinton's greatest gift may be her ability to remain upright and smile as chaos and humiliation surround her. On what was likely one of the toughest days of her political campaign so far, with initiate and analysts of May 9 2008
Factbox: how sovereign wealth fund investments have fared
crowned head wealth funds have late poured one million million of dollars into struggling Wall Street firms, but so far the state-backed investors have not reaped many wages. Investments among crowned head funds surged 153 percent last year to $48.5 one Mar 22 2008
Faith and tolerance
The Pew Forum on faith and populace Life released this week the most comprehensive survey of the American religious landscape ever conducted. We can now say, with reasonable certainty, that about half of Americans switch religious affiliation in the cours Mar 1 2008
Fannie mae and freddie mac plan to help u.s. homeowners
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance giants now controlled by the U.S. Authorities, said Tues that they planned a broad new attempt to reduce the loan load of homeowners facing foreclosure. The programme will be offered to people who are Nov 12 2008
Fans of led's say this bulb's time has come
When the lookout Equipment corp in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, was considering how to light its new mill last year, the company's president, Michael James Thomas Farrell, decided to try something new: light emitting diodes, or LED's. "I knew LE Jul 29 2008
Farm fortunes rise, but so do the risks
Fred Grieder has been agriculture for 30 years near Bloomington, in telephone exchange Illinois. That has meant 30 years of long days ploughing, planting, fertilizing, and hoping that nil happens to harm his crop. "It can be 12 hours or 20 hours, dependin Apr 22 2008
Farmers struggle to keep up with world food demand
Whatever Dennis Glenn Miller decides to plant this year on his farm, the world needs. Wheat terms have doubled in the past six calendar month. Corn is on a tear. Barleycorn, sunflower seeds, canola and soybeans are all up aggressively. "For once, there� Mar 10 2008
Farming in israel, without a drop to spare
A keepsake in the corner of Doron Ovits's business office attests to the challenges of agriculture in State of Israel. It's a mangled piece of metal, and Ovits says it came from a rocket that landed in a field late, lobbed from the nearby Aug 11 2008
Fashion statement: shorts for men
First came Casual Fridays, that dread episode in the history of manner, with their invitation for men to trade in suits for Dockers and to swap a proper shirt and tie for an open neck and a dare flash of masculine décolletage. Then the bare ankl Aug 1 2008
Fashionable, and bulletproof, on mexico city's streets
scoop clothing dress shop line Avenida Presidente Masarik here. A Burberry coat? A Corneliani suit? A Gucci scarf? Have sufficiency pesos, and they are yours. But tucked on a leafy side street in the Polanco neighborhood is a shop unlike the others, Oct 7 2008
Fast food hits mediterranean and a diet succumbs
Dr. Michalis Stagourakis has seen a transmutation of his pediatric practice here over the past three years. The usual sniffles and stomachaches of childhood are now interspersed with far more serious conditions: diabetes, high blood pressure level, high c Sep 24 2008
Fasten your seatbelt. yes, you
: What's the point of hearing to the safety instructions given by flight attendants? If there's a crash, everybody dies, right? Most air hose passengers seemingly feel this way. More than half of rider in a large study by the subject Transportat Jan 28 2008
Fate of eu treaty hangs on irish referendum
The final straw, said Dermot Gilmartin, was visual perception an functionary struggle on telecasting to reply questions about the topic of the hour: the European Union's Lisboa Treaty, which is being put to a referendum in Eire on Th. Challenged on a Jun 13 2008
Father-daughter purity ball not just about girls
In their floor-length gowns, up-dos and tiaras, the 60 or so young women swept past two harpists and into a gilt-and-brocade dining room at the lavish Broadmoor Hotel, on the arms of their much older male comrade. The girls, ages early grade school t May 20 2008
Favre: i don't feel welcome in green bay, so packers should let me play elsewhere
Retired quarterback Brett Favre wants to play in the NFL but doesn't feel welcome at the Green Bay Packers, so he's request to be released. Favre, who retired in March after a record-setting, 17-year pro calling, made his first substantial Jul 15 2008
Fda calls for urgent warning on tendon risks
Drug safety officials Tues imposed the authorities's most urgent safety warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing evidence that they may lead to sinew ruptures, a serious injury that can leave patients incapacitated and needing extensive Jul 9 2008
Fear of recession grows in europe
If there is a brilliantly spot amid the chaos in the financial markets, it is that it is portion to settee a argument among economic expert about the mentality for the European economic system. Even earlier the recognition crisis exploded back into t Oct 15 2008
Fear of taliban reaches lahore
This city has long been regarded as the cultural, intellectual and artistic heart of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, famous for its poets and writers, its gardens and historic sites left over from the Mughal Empire. The convulsion sown by combativeness Nov 4 2008 |