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Olmi wins lifetime award at Venice film festival

KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Italian director Ermanno Olmi received the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement on Friday.

Olmi wins lifetime award at Venice film festival

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Italian director Ermanno Olmi received the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement on Friday.

No leads on missing children frustrates West Valley officials

Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

The three children considered missing The children missing since Sunday: XIOMARA HERNANDEZ- TORRES, 3, is 3 feet tall, with black hair and brown eyes.

• Note indicates father suspected of kidnapping children headed to Mexico - Deseret Morning News
• Investigators have few clues in search for 3 missing West Valley children - Deseret Morning News
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Mexico's PRI leads poll ahead of election

Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is on course to become the country's most powerful political force following next year's mid-term elections, according to a poll published this week

Tonatiuh: 5 months in the wilderness.

Hulver's site (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Exactly 5 months ago I was kicked out of my job, replaced by a bunch of very jovial Indian guys. Reflections on this and - Life in unemployment. What I have done the last month: - Barcelona - Races. - PROMS. - Questions for the Republicans. And plans for the next year: - Sheffield, Mexico, Barcelona and Andalusia, Tuscany, Lanzarote, China and Australia.

Phil Hill

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008

20 April, 1927, in Miami. 28 August, 2008, in California, aged 81. PHIL Hill, one of the greatest American racing car drivers, was an introspective and cerebral champion whose celebrated drivingcareer began when he took a neighbour's new Oldsmobile for a spin as a nine-year-old.A classical music aficionado with an expertise in Italian opera, a collector of antique musical instruments, a master mechanic...

Phil Hill

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008

20 April, 1927, in Miami. 28 August, 2008, in California, aged 81. PHIL Hill, one of the greatest American racing car drivers, was an introspective and cerebral champion whose celebrated drivingcareer began when he took a neighbour's new Oldsmobile for a spin as a nine-year-old.A classical music aficionado with an expertise in Italian opera, a collector of antique musical instruments, a master mechanic...

Europe Markets: Shares in Europe rise as crude oil futures fall

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008

Oil producers BP, Total lower as crude drops below $108 a barrel.

Mexico: Supreme Court upholds abortion law

The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008

() -- On Aug. 27 Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice voted 11-3 to uphold an April 2007 in the Federal District (DF, Mexico City) allowing voluntary abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The Catholic Church and the governing center-right National Action Party (PAN) had sought to have the law declared unconstitutional. The court's decision, which opens the way for other state government to...

• Mexico Supreme Court Upholds Mexico City Law Allowing Abortion In First 12 Weeks Of Pregnancy - Medical News Today

U.S. prepares for historic game in Cuba

Fox News (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008

The U.S. doesn't expect a friendly reception for its first match in Cuba in 61 years, which is also a WC qualifier.

Mexico’s Darkness

Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008

It has always been a violent land, but the recent wave of drug-gang murders in Mexico has outraged decent people. Yesterday marches were held nationwide. Today, no doubt, many a sermon is resounding. Yet some in the churches — respectable men — profit from narco-terror. It will not be easy to change Mexico’s culture of [...]

Mexican Civil War: More Police Officer Killings

One Old Vet (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008

Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.orgForeign News ReportThe National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider. (Versions of [...]

Science Marks Ramadan’s Start - Washington Post (Www.OSIR.org.in)

www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008

HELWAN, Egypt , Aug. 30 — In synch with the sun and the moon, the traditions of 1,400 years and the acts of Muslims all over the world, members of one of Egypt’s seven official moon-sighting committees pulled into a parking lot high on a ridge Source: www.washingtonpost.com Thai Ruling Coalition Rallies Around Samak [...]

TS Updates & Weekend tech reading (8.30)

TechSpot (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008

Site announcement - TechSpot code and misc. updates

Mexican Garbanzo Recipes

Genealogy@Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008

Garbanzos beans, or chick-peas, came to Mexico two ways - with the Spanish and with the Lebanese at the turn of the century. See how they have become incorporated into the Mexican cuisine!