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Just preowned

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:08:51 GMT

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Best time to buy ... bargain used car

Published: Today

IT’S the best time in years to buy a used car – despite fears of a credit crunch, say car experts.

Adrian Rushmore, Managing Director of Glass’s Guide, says buyers will get the "red carpet treatment" from dealers and he predicts that prices will fall by at least three per cent.

Tags: car, auto, aut

marijuana magic

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:02:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Sydney suburb tagged 'leafy' for all the wrong reasons

By PM's Karen Barlow

Posted Fri May 16, 2008 6:00pm AEST
Updated Fri May 16, 2008 6:11pm AEST

On The Kraal Drive in Blair Athol, police drug investigators picked over a spartan house.

Dozens of small potted marijuana plants were stacked in the open garage and officers removed elements of a sophisticated indoor cultivation system including large bulbs and light reflectors.

Flying low

Fri, 16 May 2008 20:47:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.salon.com

Ask the pilot

With oil prices soaring, airlines are struggling as never before. What's in store for fliers?

By Patrick Smith

May 16, 2008 | These days you can't crack open a newspaper or click to a Web site without stumbling across one or more front-page stories about the airlines. Bankruptcies, safety scandals, fuel woes, you name it. And if there's a common thread in this media barrage, it's that none of the stories are positive. For carriers the future looks uncertain at best, nightmarish at worst.

Everybody knows the airline business is cyclical. The boom-bust cycle has been playing out since before deregulation. What's different, this time, is how potentially devastating this latest scorching might be, and how quickly it followed on the heels of the post-Sept. 11 industry wipeout. The recovery period was brief, to say the least.

Tags: airlines, losses

beer belly

Fri, 16 May 2008 19:09:18 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thehumanmarvels.com

Massive Human Marvels - The Fat Men

Believe it or not, human corpulence was once an admired trait. Today, obesity is often looked at in disgust but, in the golden era of sideshow and in the 18^th century – the Fat Man or Woman was a mainstay in the business of prodigious display.

It was also Dickens who, in his magazine Household Words forever cemented the name Daniel Lambert with hugeness. Even today, there are numerous Pubs, Taverns and Inns named after Lambert – with the keepers hoping the clientele will associate the name with ample portions of

The Mountainous Human Marvel is all but gone now, with only one Fat Man, Howard Huge, still traveling.

Tags: stout, fat, obese, weight loss, weight gain

managegng speaking

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:26:16 GMT

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Clip Source: avialblah.blogspot.com

Content Management - Public Speaking - 5

If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today

Relevance

Treatment

Preparation

"We learn from failure, not from success!" - Bram Stroker

Coducting the self Good speaker Fear at Podium Public Speaker

Tags: public speaking, public-speaking, speaking, speak, content, speech, talk, podium, meeting, powerpoint

cyber route

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:41:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mercurynews.com

Woman charged in bullying of teen who later killed herself

By Linda Deutsch
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Thursday indicted a woman accused of fraudulently using a MySpace.com account to "cyberbully" a Missouri teenager who later hanged herself because she believed she was being rejected by a 16-year-old boy she met on the social networking Web site.

Lori Drew, 49, of O'Fallon, Mo., faces three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl and one count of conspiracy.

Tags: intenet, cyber crime, myspace, suicide

autism in news

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:36:18 GMT

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Clip Source: shine.yahoo.com

Autism: Should there even be a cure for it?

by Jessica Ashley, Shine staff, on Tue May 13, 2008 2:55pm PDT

I'm not afraid of children with autism or learning about autism or discussing autism. As hard as it is to admit, I have been nervous to let autism enter into my writing just as I have been nervous it would invade my home. That's why, when I read this moving and forthright article by Julie Deardorff in the Chicago Tribune, I felt called to finally put autism at the center of my screen.

Tags: autism

strip pension not clothes

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:26:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

The pensioners were protesting against their treatment in the Federal Budget.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Pensions a matter for the Henry commission: Rudd

Posted 3 hours 6 minutes ago
Updated 3 hours 0 minutes ago

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has acknowledged many pensioners feel hard done by in the federal Budget.

A group of pensioners have taken their clothes off in central Melbourne to protest against the lack of an increase in their welfare payment in the Budget.

Tags: pension, clothes, australia, au

food court

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:22:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.forbes.com

America's Top Power-Lunch Spots

03.07.08, 6:00 PM ET

Pascale Le Draoulec

When Ronald Perelman walks to his table at Michael's restaurant in New York, a server is usually right behind him with his diet soda at the ready.

"And, right behind that server," says general manager Steve Millington, "there's usually another server waiting in the wings with some green tea" just in case that's what Perelman wants that day.

Tags: food, wine