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Our comprehensive review, complete with numerous photographs, test results, and videos, continues below. Because of the length of each section, we have included new Executive Summaries to help you skip quickly through the pages if you don't care to read all the details. Updated January 29, 2008: We have added a new section to the last page of this review, detailing Apple's release of a $20 software upgrade for the iPod touch, containing five applications previously reserved only for iPhone users. .
Kresge Foundation's Fourth Quarter Grants of Nearly $50 Million ...
TROY, Mich., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Kresge Foundation's fourth quarter grantmaking reflects its new emphasis on a recently articulated set of values: advancing low-income opportunity, promoting community impact in ways most needed by residents, encouraging innovation and risk taking, fostering interdisciplinary solutions, advancing ecological sustainability, and valuing diversity in board governance. At its December 12, 2007, board meeting, the trustees approved 65 grants totaling $49.8 million for organizations in 28 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and South Africa. A complete list, organized by state, is below. "Our new values criteria focus our grantmaking and reflect our strategic priorities," says Elaine D. Rosen, chair of the Board of Trustees.
U.S. 331 set to bypass Freeport
FREEPORT — The much-anticipated U.S. Highway 331 bypass around Freeport is set to open Wednesday morning, but reaction from locals is mixed. Some Freeport business owners fear lost sales without a highway cutting through town, but others praise the change as a safety improvement. The new bypass will help South Walton residents evacuate during a hurricane, said D.C. Davis, owner of nearby D.C. Davis Construction. And without so many cars, dump trucks and semis rumbling by Freeport Elementary and High schools, traveling will be safer for parents, students and buses. "I’m all for it," he said. The 5.5-mile bypass cost about $25 million and is set to open right on time, said Tommie Speights, Florida Department of Transportation spokesman. A ceremony will commemorate the opening at 10 a.m.
Snow Blankets New England, Children Get A Snow Day
Snow Blankets New England, Children Get A Snow Day Storm Buries Midwest In Record Accumulation CONCORD, N.H. (CBS) ― Snow fell across parts of New England for the third day in a row Wednesday, adding to last month's record accumulations and closing schools. Flurries also extended into the Ohio Valley, and some children had an extra holiday as classes were canceled in parts of West Virginia and Ohio. Temperatures fell to freezing levels as far south as the Florida Panhandle, and wind chill readings were below zero in parts of northern Kentucky. Following the snowiest December on record, many areas of New Hampshire got about a foot of snow on New Year's Day, with a couple of inches added during the night and a couple more likely Wednesday. Storm totals could reach 18 inches in parts of Maine and New Hampshire and up to a foot in Vermont.
Bush says faith beat alcohol habit
Bush says faith beat alcohol habit President talks frankly about 'addiction,' meets with two graduates of church support project. Jennifer Loven / Associated Press BALTIMORE -- President Bush is talking more openly about his old drinking habit, and on Tuesday he offered perhaps his most pointed assessment yet by saying plainly that the term "addiction" had applied to him. "Addiction is hard to overcome. As you might remember, I drank too much at one time in my life," Bush said during a visit to the Jericho Program, a project of Episcopal Community Services of Maryland that helps former prisoners deal with problems such as drug addiction, finding jobs and reintegrating productively into society. Bush spoke to reporters after meeting privately with two men who have graduated from Jericho's program and dealt with drug problems.
Quincy cop feud flares up: Union chief Tait benched for 4 days for ...
In a blog entry Dec. 1, he wrote of having been knocked on my backside for over a week with a nasty upper-respiratory infection.''Mayor Thomas Koch said he was informed late Tuesday of the suspension. He said Crowley had not consulted him directly but had checked with the city's legal department beforehand.I trust (the police chief) is acting in accordance with stipulations in the (patrolmen's) contract,'' Koch said. .
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Here is anecdote #21, a tantalising bit of gossip from the letters of John Chamberlain: Sir Robert Cecil is reported to be very busy coming and going very often between London and the Queen, so that he appeareth with his hands full of papers and his head full of matter, and so occupied passeth through the Presence Chamber like a blind man, not looking upon any.Ha...ha? Meanwhile, over at Camp David: Laura Bush gave George a new coat for mountain biking; he gave her a purse, and the twins received "household items." What was your favourite/funniest gift? Permalink .
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