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Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica have been locked in a kind of cage match battle for relevancy ever since legions of high schoolers found the former was an excellent tool ...

Fifteen Minutes on Wikipedia is Like a Semester at Yale, if Yale was a ... - Kotaku.com

LOS ANGELES -- The University of Southern California opened the 2003 season at Auburn. U.S.C. Coach Pete Carroll invited Sam Cunningham and John Papadakis to make the trip and to ...

Book Excerpt - American Reporter

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Kurt Waldheim, the once "dapper diplomat" and former United Nations Secretary General reminding one of Henry Kissinger-styled poise and star power, died June ...

Passings: Kurt Waldheim - American Reporter

ANYONE VISITING El-Gozlani family’s modest flat in Kerdassa is accustomed to hearing 60-year-old Aisha Abdel Salam Saleh sitting in her room, sweet-talking one of her three sons ...

A House Divided - Egypt Today

Family gatherings around the barbecue pit, dressing in patriotic clothing and watching large displays of fireworks are common throughout the country to celebrate Independence Day ...

Holiday means more than just fireworks - Brazoria Facts

He can't recall much algebra, but Jack Fellows remembers being busy in class. "I'd sit in the back and draw Hellcats sinking Japanese ships," the Lake Stevens man said. Fighter ...

Lake Stevens man honored for plane art - Everett Herald

* The finest rivalry in sports revs up again this weekend, as the Boston Red Sox visit New York for a four-game argument with the Yankees. In recent years, one of these two teams ...

Devil of a season - Daily Gazette

Authors usually have the ultimate decision on the titles for their books, but I think Mark Sampson missed a sure bet in naming his first volume, ''Modern Sharking.'' A more ...

Sampson spins mighty tale - HometownAnnapolis.com

It was just a decade ago that doctors were telling us to eat more pasta and pizza to stay healthy and live longer. Then the flavor of the day became oily fish and nuts, the ...

Eat Right, Live Well - Egypt Today

Where does one draw the line between trendy and historically significant? Is there even a line at all? The so-called “designer drugs” of the early 1980s may have been more ...

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