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Concerns looming over Ocotillo Wind Express
Staff WriterAs turbines rise in Ocotillo Wind Express, questions remain over the type of impacts the project will bring to the Valley and its westernmost community. Some fear about their health. But whether turbines do in fact pose health concerns is an issue...Tags: Environmental Politics, Solar Energy, Colleges and Universities, Health, Health and Safety at School
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A Lifelong Commitment to Helping Others
Valley Women WriterBetty Young said she did what everyone else was doing at the time. “During the war there were a lot of nights and weekends I volunteered. Basically I wanted to help. Everybody was doing something to try and help the effort,&...Tags: American Red Cross, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Tourism and Leisure, Social Issues, Charity
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"Promiscuous minds" gather for Britain's Hay Festival
ReutersBy Nigel Stephenson LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names in literature, science and politics will pitch up to a small British town over the next week for a clan gathering of the world's most "promiscuous minds". The 26th Hay Festival...Tags: Music, Nobel Prize Awards, Freedom of the Press, Eric Schmidt, United Kingdom
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Short story writer Lydia Davis wins Man Booker Intl fiction prize
ReutersBy Paul Casciato LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - American short story writer Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Wednesday for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published. Davis - who has only...Tags: David Foster Wallace, Fiction, Chinua Achebe, Authors, England
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Short story writer Lydia Davis wins major fiction prize
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - American short story writer Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Wednesday for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published. Davis, a professor of creative writing at the...Tags: David Foster Wallace, Fiction, Authors, Chinua Achebe, England
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Tunisia announces first death from new coronavirus
ReutersTunis (Reuters) - A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from new coronavirus, a strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year, after a visit to Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The man, a diabetic, died in hospital in the...Tags: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Viral Diseases and Infections, Medical Procedures and Tests, Diabetes, Saudi Arabia
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Cannes: The Weinstein Co. Nearing Deal for 'The Young and Prodigious Spivet'
ReutersMay 21 (TheWrap.com) - The Weinstein Company is closing in on U.S. rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 3D adventure movie "The Young and Prodigious Spivet," which is one of the hottest available titles at Cannes. A spokesperson for TWC didn't immediately...Tags: The Weinstein Company
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Eifman's sudsy 'Rodin' full of startling dance
Boris Eifman's work is always surprising, stumbling here and there, maybe, but determined to recycle classical ballet into new shapes, with novel plot lines. He and his Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, which played the Auditorium Theatre over the...
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Today in History
Today is Saturday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2013. There are 213 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 1, 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, "Don't give up the ship"...Tags: Punishment, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), England, Janet Jackson, Brandi Carlile
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Saudi Arabia has another case of new coronavirus: WHO
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday. In a...Tags: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Viral Diseases and Infections, Health Organizations, Saudi Arabia, International Organizations
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CORRECTED-FEATURE-Rumours, grief and questions: A virus ravages a Saudi family
Reuters(Removes erroneous reference to deaths in France, para 7) By Angus McDowall HOFUF, Saudi Arabia, May 12 (Reuters) - On the third day after his father's death from a respiratory infection, Hussein al-Sheikh began to feel feverish. Shortly afterwards,...Tags: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Diabetes, France, Saudi Arabia, Hospitals and Clinics
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Cannes 2013: Opening night welcomes 'Great Gatsby,' Euro-style
CANNES, France -- The movie world feted an old friend Wednesday night, or at least an old sport. Two weeks after celebrating Baz Luhrmann's big-budget adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel with a throwback party at the Plaza Hotel in New York,...Tags: Fishing, Music, Manhattan (New York City), Leonardo DiCaprio, Moonrise Kingdom (movie)
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