Jun 05, 2009 -
Prison blues: States slimming down inmate meals
By SHANNON McCAFFREY
ATLANTA (AP) — The recession is hitting home for inmates, too: Some cash-strapped states are taking aim at prison menus.
Georgia prisoners already didn't get lunch on the weekends, and the Department of Corrections recently eliminated the midday meal on Fridays, too. Ohio may drop weekend breakfasts and offer brunch instead.
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Mar 12, 2009 -
HE’S HOT, HE’S SEXY, HE’S UNDEAD
Two years ago, Robert Pattinson was a forgotten extra in a ‘Harry Potter’ movie. Then he got cast as a blue-balled vampire in ‘Twilight,’ the year’s kazillion-dollar movie franchise, and every woman in America over 14 wants him. Too bad he’s not sure he wants them
It’s December; Twilight, in which Pattinson, 22, plays an adorably tortured perma-teenage vampire too principled to drink human blood, has been in theaters for about a month.
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Oct 20, 2008 -
CHILDHOOD
"We didn’t have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone’s chips!"
"Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as ‘Claudia’!
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Sep 19, 2008 -
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/best_newguitar.html
1. Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. Eric Clapton - Yardbirds, Cream, Derek & The Dominos, Solo
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Feb 08, 2007 -
I saw this over at ohnotheydidnt and thought it was really fun to read! I took the most interesting ones from the original post to share here.
"We all love movies, and its interesting to find out that the final cut we see in theatres or on TV isn't always what was originally imagined or intended by the creators.
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Jun 12, 2008 -
Verne Troyer says he is still mourning Heath Ledger's death.
Troyer was shooting Terry Gilliam's fantasy The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus with Ledger when the Australian actor died of an accidental overdose in January.
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Apr 01, 2008 -
The BBC will today screen remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution.
Camera crews discovered a colony of Adélie penguins while filming on King George Island, some 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands. The programme is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, who said: "We'd been watching the penguins and filming them for days, without a hint of what was to come.
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Nov 12, 2006 -
1.Maria: All of you! You all killed him! And my brother, and Riff.
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Feb 12, 2008 -
From the files of "It's in the New York Times so it must be true:"
February 12, 2008
Arizona Seeing Signs of Flight by Immigrants
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
PHOENIX — The signs of flight among Latino immigrants here are multiple: Families moving out of apartment complexes, schools reporting enrollment drops, business owners complaining about fewer clients.
While it is too early to know for certain, a consensus is developing among economists, business people and immigration groups that the weakening economy coupled with recent curbs on illegal immigration are steering Hispanic immigrants out of the state.
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Sep 17, 2007 -
Reno Air Races
Safe day of racing closes dramatic week
SUSAN VOYLES
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
Posted: 9/17/2007
Fans, racing teams and their families were relieved Sunday that no major incidents occurred on the final day of the National Championship Air Races in Reno.
"We want just a nice, quiet, safe day of racing," said Terry Hellickson, who witnessed one of the three fatal crashes in four days.
Everywhere on the race grounds, flags were flying at half staff in honor of the three dead pilots.
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