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    Calls for bottled water bans grow in Canada

    Saturday, August 23, 2008 London, Ontario is the latest in a string of Canadian cities to have acted on increasing public demand to ban bottled water. On Monday, the decision to eliminate bottled water sales in city-run facilities was passed by London's city council with a vote of 15-3 in favour. The move was driven by a desire to reduce waste and shipping, have a lower impact on the environment and promote tap water as a cheap and safe alternative. London's new restrictions will be implemented over the next several months in buildings that are already equipped with water

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    Leonard Skinner, namesake of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies at age 77

    Monday, September 20, 2010 Leonard Skinner, the namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died at the age of 77. Skinner was a gym teacher and basketball coach and taught members of the group. His death was announced by his son, also named Leonard Skinner, who also said that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Skinner died at the St. Catherine Laboure Manor nursing home in Riverside at 02.30 a.m. His son said that he had a bowl of ice cream shortly after midnight. He had been at the home for about a year. The coach taught the members of the group in the 1960s and wa

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    California senator opposed to cell-phones involved in cell-phone related crash

    Tuesday, May 22, 2007 California state senator Carole Migden crashed her state provided SUV into a Honda sedan while reaching for her phone. Migden has favored a new law penalizing drivers who talk on their cellular phones (aka mobile phones). The crash occurred on Highway 12 in Solano County, California Friday morning. The driver of the Honda was taken to a near-by hospital for minor injuries. In 2006, Migden voted to fine drivers a minimum $20 fee for driving while talking on the phone without a hands-free device. The law will not go into effect until July 2008, so she w

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    SEPTA buys rail cars from NJ Transit to deal with crowding

    Tuesday, July 29, 2008 As gas prices have risen in the United States, the regional transport authority for southeastern Pennsylvania, SEPTA, has seen a sharp increase in ridership, which has caused overcrowding on the trains. "As fuel prices have continued to rise, SEPTA ridership has steadily increased and is the highest in 18 years," said SEPTA General Manager Joseph Casey. Monthly ridership was 22 percent higher last month than a year ago. "They have crushed loads on their rail lines, already where people are standing, and there's not enough seats," said Rich Bickel, th

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    Click Here To Know More About: Stainless Steel Pipe Fittings Carrington Products Making Ends Meet by Wilkinson SmithIn the construction industry there is a very famous photograph of a bridge construction. The construction programme called for the bridge to be built from both sides at the same time and meet in the middle. Progress on the construction of both sides continued well until the contractor was getting ready to install the last section to make up the gap. It was only then that they realised that there had been an error in the surveying on each side and

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    US Federal Reserve prepares to take over AIG

    Wednesday, September 17, 2008 The Federal Reserve took over American International Group (AIG) on Tuesday in an US$85 billion loan, in exchange for a 79.9% stake in the company. A press release issued Tuesday stated that "the Board determined that, in current circumstances, a disorderly failure of AIG could add to already significant levels of financial market fragility and lead to substantially higher borrowing costs, reduced household wealth, and materially weaker economic performance." The deal allows AIG to draw up to US$85 billion in loans over the next 24 months to s

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    U.S. prepares for arrival of Hurricane Sandy

    Monday, October 29, 2012 The United States is preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. The hurricane, which is expected to hit late Sunday into Monday, could affect up to sixty million people. The Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, announced that all subway, bus and train services in New York City would be suspended from 19:00 EST on Sunday evening. The hurricane has already caused damage and fatalities in several Caribbean countries this week. Meteorologists are concerned that it will turn into a "Frankenstorm" as it amalgamates with a winter storm in the run up to

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    The Wii, Nintendo’s next generation console, launches in North America

    Sunday, November 19, 2006 Nintendo has released its newest video game console in North America. Known as the Wii, the system and games have an MSRP of US$249.99 and US$49.99 respectively. The North American release is to be followed by the December 2nd launch in Japan and the December 8th launch in Europe. Launched officially at midnight, more than a thousand people gathered in New York's Time Square to be among the first to buy one of the Wii. In contrast to the crowds that have challenged crowd control officials over the last two days in connection with the launch of Son

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    Soft drink foes cheer victory, lament remaining junk foods in schools

    Monday, May 8, 2006 Last week’s announcement that most soda manufacturers will stop selling their sugary products in U.S. schools did not mention that avoiding lawsuits was part of the motivation for the self-imposed ban. Some of those who threatened legal action to stop the soda sales are patting themselves on the back over the agreement, while lamenting that the deal did not go far enough, and now plan to press for more restrictions. “Though there is room for improvement — sugary “sports” drinks still will be sold in schools, for instance — this voluntary agreement is ce

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    Too Grimm? Mother Goose cartoonist sued by Colombian coffee growers

    Sunday, January 11, 2009 While it was just a joke, the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia doesn't find a recent "Mother Goose and Grimm" comic terribly funny. In what the coffee growers association calls "an attack on national dignity and the reputation of Colombian coffee," the characters in a comic strip by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Peters call into question the relationship of Colombian coffee growers and the crime syndicates of Columbia. The cartoonist is being sued not only for "damages [to] the intellectual heritage" of the coffee, but also "mo

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