Old Palapye: bad omen or bright future
One hopes that Palapye is not burdened with an omen of failure. Doubters will remind us that plans for this area to become the administrative capital of Botswana never saw the light of day.
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Back Story: A ‘hip’ bar scene in Towson during the 1970s
Places like the Penn Hotel drew a crowd Earlier this month, a spirited crowd of Baltimore County officials and others gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue in Towson to participate with owners Rick Bielski and Eric and Melanie Wagner in the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Charles Village Pub, which will replace the original popular watering hole that burned in January.
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Blackouts linked to future drinking injuries in college students
The more memory blackouts a college student experiences when drinking, the more likely he or she is to suffer an injury while drinking at some time in the future, a new study says.
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Teen Drinking At Festival Later Run Over By Train
A 17-year-old Altoona boy run over by a train Sunday night survived.
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City drinking water passes test
CUMBERLAND — The latest testing of the city’s drinking water from the Lake Koon and Gordon reservoirs shows zero violations of contaminant levels, according to Raquel Ketterman, city environmental specialist.
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Deputies bust underage drinking party
Some underage drinkers allegedly fought with police when they walked in on their party outside La Porte.
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Keeping future Leafs on straight and narrow
Before learning the do’s of pro hockey, 42 Maple Leafs wannabes must also learn the don’ts of off-ice behaviour.
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Keeping future Buds on straight, narrow
Before learning the do’s of pro hockey, 42 Maple Leafs wannabes must also learn the don’ts of off-ice behaviour.
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Former State Attorney General Weighs in on Political Future of Sen. McGee
A day after State Senator John McGee is released from jail for drunk driving and driving a car without the owner’s permission, there are questions as to whether the senator’s political career can stay
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Faridabad police to launched anti-drunk driving campaign
Faridabad, Jun 21 (PTI) In a bid to bring down rising cases of accidents in the city, Faridabad police are going to initiate campaign against drunken driving.Under this campaign, if one is found behind the wheels under the influence of alcohol, one could not only lose his/her driving license but also could be sent behind bars for a period of up to two years, Faridabad Joint Commissioner of …
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Woman who hit trooper in Shrewsbury gets two years
A 51-year-old Worcester woman with a history of drunken driving offenses was sentenced to two years in jail on Monday for driving drunk and rear-ending a car driven by State Police Col. Marian McGovern in October.
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L.V. Music: Led Zeppelin Experience’s Jason Bonham talks about dad, career, future
Jason Bonham’s father, John, was the drummer in one of the greatest rock bands of all time, Led Zeppelin, which sold more records than any other band besides The Beatles.

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Your future, a little early
Find Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology online, every Wednesday, one day before it hits the Indy’s printed pages. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Success coach Tom Ferry says our ability to pursue our dreams can be damaged by four addictions: 1. an addiction to what other people think of us; 2. an addiction to creating melodrama in a misguided quest for excitement; 3. an addiction to believing we’re …

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Sources say Maradona’s coaching future in doubt
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Diego Maradona is out as Argentina’s soccer coach. Coach – Argentine Football Association – Diego Maradona – Julio Grondona – Argentina national football team

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Recipe for redemption: Jim Jenkins uses his cooking skills to make a better future
Jim Jenkins has come a long way from the Portland Rescue Mission, a long way from addiction and homelessness and lost hope.

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Event’s future in peril
WEST ATHENS — When the first Fourth of July parade made its way down the Valley Road with kazoo bands, flowers, peace signs and zany floats in the mid-1970s, it was all about peace, love and understanding, say locals who have lived there all their lives.

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Former clerk convicted of embezzlement shows regret, worries about future
DECATUR, Ill. — The first time she stole, she planned to pay itback.

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Dave, the party leader: He had danced till dawn, but our future PM still looked amazingly fresh
David Cameron showed during the General Election campaign that he could run a party and had the stamina to stay awake through the night. But more than 20 years ago these qualities were on display in a quite different context.

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Ronnie Wood – Ronnie Woods Sober Future
Ronnie Wood has been sober for 60 days.The Rolling Stones rocker – who went through a public break-up with 21-year-old Russian model Ekaterina Ivanova last year -…

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Future of Prevention Funding Lies in Broad, Public-Health Approach
Fueled in part by national healthcare reform, a quiet revolution is taking place in how the federal government conceives of prevention and funds preventive services, and the upshot could mean more money for programs that take a public-health approach to addiction and mental health problems and less for standalone programs that focus solely on alcohol and other drugs.

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For Destroyed Viborg Church, Future Unclear
VIBORG — The Rev. Steve Unzicker and his Spring Valley Lutheran parishioners shared more than a meal at their annual Maundy Thursday soup supper.

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Moscow goes dark in pondering for future (2)
“We should not pollute nature with litter, and we should drive less to alleviate air pollution,” said Natasha’s skater boy Anton. Russian actress Irina Bezrukova,the campaign ambassador,told media ahead of the blackout that she would kindle candles with her husband at home. “I love the idea, when hundreds of millions of people around the globe think about the issue, it will form an amazing power …

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Bookstores try to read future
To Mel Sanders, a successful author’s event or open-mike poetry night at her downtown Vancouver bookstore is like the binding of a good book. It holds the pages of her business together.

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The iPad Kindle App Is A Peek At Kindle’s Full Colour Future
The Kindle iPad app’s more than an upscaled iPhone port, with a new “tablet-based interface that redesigns the core screen and the reading experience,” says Kindle VP, Ian Freed . In other words, it’s a peek at the future of Kindle . (more…)

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The iPad Kindle App Is a Peek at Kindle’s Full Color Future [Kindle]
# kindle The Kindle iPad app’s more than an iPhone port, with a new “tablet-based interface that redesigns the core screen and the reading experience,” says Kindle VP Ian Freed . In other words, it’s a peek at the future of Kindle . UPDATED . More »

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Ballot initiative for future water projects in works
Dick Brown and Gary Barber came before the Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority at its March meeting to announce a state-wide ballot initiative the two are working on independently.

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Into the future: Leader says killings won’t define Red Lake
RED LAKE, Minn. — There’s a sign posted off Minnesota Highway 1, the road that hugs lower Red Lake and the southern stretch of this vast American Indian reservation.

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