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Ridership on mass transit breaks records
01.06.2008 23:38
usatoday.com
More people are riding the nation's buses and trains, breaking records for the first quarter of the year. Transit operators expect ...
USA
Social Life
Flip-flops are no walk in the park, study suggests
01.06.2008 23:37
usatoday.com
If you wear flip-flops all the time, keep this in mind: The shoes may throw off your stride and cause pain in your lower legs ...
USA
Social Life
Home from Iraq, wary Marine fatally wounded
01.06.2008 23:37
usatoday.com
On leave from the violence he had survived in the war in Iraq, a young Marine was so wary of crime on the streets of his own ...
USA
Social Life
Singles find love, marriage after age 45
01.06.2008 23:37
usatoday.com
When she was still single in her 40s, Debra Siegel made a list of qualities for her yet-elusive perfect husband: honest, family-oriented, ...
USA
Social Life
New scan for skin cancers goes full-body route
01.06.2008 23:37
usatoday.com
Among dangerous cancers, melanoma has a curious distinction: It usually develops on visible skin, and yet 20% of cases are diagnosed ...
USA
Social Life
N.Y. court gives veterans chance to straighten out
01.06.2008 23:37
usatoday.com
Judge Robert Russell, who created Buffalo's drug treatment court in 1995 and mental health treatment court in 2003, started holding ...
USA
Social Life
Details of Texas sect kids' release being 'worked out'
01.06.2008 23:37
usatoday.com
The release of hundreds of children removed from a polygamist sect in Texas could begin as early as today if an agreement can ...
USA
Social Life
Black marchers protest St. Louis crime, violence
01.06.2008 23:37
usatoday.com
Throngs of ministers, Black Panthers and other black men hungry for change marched through a historically black St. Louis neighborhood ...
USA
Social Life
Crews examine wreckage of NYC crane crash
01.06.2008 23:37
usatoday.com
Crews examined the wreckage at a Manhattan building Sunday that was damaged in a deadly crane collapse, as displaced residents ...
USA
Social Life
Public toilets get hi-tech potties
01.06.2008 23:37
usatoday.com
For the person on the go who needs to go, cities are placing self-cleaning, automated public toilets in high-pedestrian-traffic ...
USA
Social Life
Death of socialite and journalist Terry Keane
01.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
THE JOURNALIST and socialite Terry Keane died on Saturday at St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, after a long illness.
Ireland
Social Life
Seven killed on roads in six separate incidents
01.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
SEVEN PEOPLE have died on the roads this weekend, including two men in a motorcycle collision in Co Kerry yesterday.
Ireland
Social Life
Talk of SF attempt to block Robinson election 'ludicrous'
01.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
DUP LEADER Peter Robinson has dismissed as "ludicrous" suggestions that Sinn Féin would attempt to disrupt his election as first minister by the Assembly on Thursday. Mr Robinson formally assumed the leadership of his party on Saturday as the Rev Ian Paisley stood down at a meeting of the DUP executive in Belfast.
Ireland
Social Life
Peter the pragmatist or the pugilist of old?
01.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
Sinn Féin and the new DUP leader are on course for some tough bargaining, writes Dan Keenan.
Ireland
Social Life
At least 41,000 being taught in prefabs
01.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
THE LABOUR Party has said that more than 2,200 prefabricated buildings are being used in approximately 900 primary schools around the country, with over half of these being used for mainstream classes.
Ireland
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