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"God's Crucible — Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215" (W.W. Norton, 475 pages, $29.95), by David Levering Lewis
(AP) Though it all happened 1,300 years ago well — some of it less than 600 years ago — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Lever...
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NEW YORK (AP) ¿ Oprah Winfrey is getting her own TV network.
OWN ¿ for Oprah Winfrey Network ¿ will debut next year in nearly 70 million homes with cable and satellite, part of a deal announced this week with Discovery Communications. It will replace...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ¿ Americans with diabetes are doing a better job of keeping their blood glucose under control, a new analysis shows.
The percentage of people with Type 1 or 2 diabetes who had poor glycemic control fell from 21 percent in 19...
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Hot dance twists and turns, precision timing and the chemistry between the dancers makes Tango Fire a show that is full of not only adrenaline, but also good humour.
It seems that Carolina Soler, artistic director and choreographer, tried to give all...
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Saltus Grammar School has been extremely busy with community service in 2007.
Recently, the parents of Saltus Secondary Department students organised a holiday raffle. The day before the end of the Winter Term, December 19, they raised $1,544, splitt...
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NEW YORK (AP) ¿ "Breaking Bad" has cooked up this startling premise: A decent man decides to make and sell an evil drug, crystal methamphetamine.
He's a high school chemistry teacher who learns he has terminal cancer. He and his family already are ba...
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SAMBURU, Kenya (AP) — Lounging by the hotel pool in one of Kenya's storied nature reserves, Debbie Shillito sees one small advantage to the travel warnings issued after a presidential election here sparked violence.
"You get all the attention," Shill...
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Buddy Holly's widow is trying to keep the woman whose name was made famous by the 1950s hit song "Peggy Sue" from selling a book about her friendship with the rocker.
Maria Elena Holly says Peggy Sue Gerron's "Whatever Happened ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Removal of the ovaries (oophorectomy) plus tamoxifen, as adjuvant, or "add-on" therapy, significantly improves survival in premenopausal women with operable breast cancer, a study indicates.
This finding is particularly re...
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With razor sharp knives and grim determination, Bermuda's culinary chieftains will battle it out when the Escoffier Cup semi-finals kick off at the end of this month.
The Escoffier Cup is a part of the 'Bermuda Gourmet Getaway' weekend to be held at ...
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