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Freecycle Is The New Recycle: Green Nest LLC's Freecycle Contest Awards Over $2,000 of Organic Mattress Foundations to Two Lucky Winners
11.07.2008 14:21
prweb.com
Can't sleep? Is the thought of creating consumer waste with your next furniture purchase keeping you up at night? Green Nest LLC makes green living easy with their e-commerce site, www.GreenNest.com, offering eco-friendly products and furniture. Through their winning entries in Green Nest's Freecycle Contest, both Shannon B. of Windsor, CT and Holly A. of Topanga, CA can rest easy on their new certified organic mattress foundations. (PRWeb Jul 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1094784.htm
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Ecology & Environment
Calmer weather slows Calif., Wash. fires
11.07.2008 14:20
usatoday.com
Firefighters battling a raging wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California braced for strong winds Friday they feared ...
USA
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Ohio plans first execution since high court moratorium
11.07.2008 14:20
usatoday.com
Ohio is planning its first execution since a U.S. Supreme Court decision ended a national pause on killing inmates.
USA
Social Life
California to require algebra taught in 8th grade
11.07.2008 14:20
usatoday.com
California educational leaders have voted to make their state the first to require an eighth-grade algebra test, despite concerns ...
USA
Social Life
N.Y. to reserve Broadway lanes for bikes, walking, cafes
11.07.2008 14:20
usatoday.com
New York City will close two lanes to cars on Broadway in midtown to make way for a bike lane and a pedestrian walkway with cafe ...
USA
Social Life
Cord blood helping baby with 'bubble boy' disease
11.07.2008 14:20
usatoday.com
A recent umbilical-cord-blood transplant at Children's Mercy Hospital has transformed Granton from a frail, nearly immobile patient ...
USA
Social Life
Iraqi girl in Maine for surgery
11.07.2008 14:20
usatoday.com
A six-year-old Iraqi girl injured by an American sniper more than a year ago in Iraq is in Maine for surgery to repair some of ...
USA
Social Life
Nigerian Gunmen Kidnap Employees of German Construction Firm
11.07.2008 14:20
dw-world.de
Nigerian gunmen Friday, July 11 kidnapped two expatriate employees of German-founded construction firm Julius Berger Nigeria in the Western African nation's oil-producing Niger Delta Region.
Germany
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Russia bans 3 adoption agencies following baby's death in U.S.
11.07.2008 14:19
rian.ru
Three international adoption agencies, including one that failed to inform Russia of the death of a baby in the U.S. this week, have been banned from operating in Russia, the country's adoption authorities said on Friday.
Russia
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Putin calls for oil, gas industry overhaul, more exploration
11.07.2008 14:19
rian.ru
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called Friday for a major technological overhaul in the oil and gas sector, as well as more exploration to find new strategic deposits.
Russia
Social Life
Georgia 'requests UN session' on airspace violation by Russia
11.07.2008 14:19
rian.ru
Russia
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Germany to Dodge Syria at Weekend Meeting in Paris
11.07.2008 13:19
dw-world.de
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will avoid holding official talks with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad when they meet at a Euro-Mediterranean summit in Paris at the weekend, according to officials in Berlin.
Germany
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