MEXICO CITY AFP — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Thursday visited the Basilica of Guadelupe, this country's most revered icon, a stop likely aimed at Roman Catholics and Mexican-Americans voters in the United States. A spokesman traveling with said the trip was meant to demonstrate the high regard...
WASHINGTON AFP — A group of US schoolgirls in the Massachusetts fishing town of Gloucester made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together, a report has said. Time magazine reported Thursday that 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies "more than four times the...
GLOUCESTER, Massachusetts AFP — Locals in this small seaside town on the Atlantic coast are used to drawing attention to themselves by the size of their fishing catch or the rugged beauty of Goodharbor Beach. But this week, Gloucester, one of the oldest towns in the United States, was...
A Mormon housewife writing about vampires? That alone may be enough to draw interest. But what's more important is that she does it so well. Ever since Stephenie Meyer published her first book, "Twilight," in 2005, she has been nothing less than a phenomenon. The book...
What's well-written, fairly interesting, and incredibly freaking annoying to read? Time Magazine's list of 25 Gotta Have Travel Gadgets, that's what. The article is pretty well researched (the gadgets tend to be light and useful like the Kensington ComboSaver Portable Notebook Lock and the Tumi Ultra Slim Universal Power Adaptor...
Finavera Renewables Inc. ('Finavera Renewables' or the 'Company') (TSX VENTURE: FVR) is pleased to be recognized in Time Magazine's Special Environmental Issue entitled, "How to Win the War on Global Warming". The April 28th issue of Time Magazine focuses on the issues, challenges and opportunities facing the world as a...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Andy Lewis, vice president and co-dealer of Lewis Ford Sales in Fayetteville, has been nominated for the 2008 Time Magazine Dealer of the Year Award. Lewis was chosen to represent the Arkansas Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition. Recipients of the Dealer of the Year Award...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Hollywood icon George Clooney has written off his chances of winning the best actor prize at Sunday's Academy Awards, branding himself the "Hillary Clinton of the Oscars." The 46-year-old heart-throb, who is nominated for his performance in the legal drama "Michael Clayton", told Time magazine...
ITEM: Time magazine for December 20, 2007 announced its selection of Russia's head oligarch, President Vladimir Putin, as its "Person of the Year" for 2007. In "Choosing Order Before Freedom," an article explaining Time's choice penned by Richard Stengel, the magazine's managing editor, we read: "When this intense and brooding...
WowWee, an Optimal Group company (NASDAQ: OPMR), today announced that its award-winning FlyTechTM Dragonfly has been named one of TIME Magazine's "Best Inventions of the Year." The FlyTech Dragonfly, which is the world's first radio-controlled flying insect to use flapping wings, was named under the "Aircraft" category in the...
WASHINGTON AFP — US officials are investigating a shootout in Baghdad involving the US security firm Blackwater in which eight people were killed, the State Department said Monday. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss the incident and the investigation, spokesman Tom Casey...
JAKARTA AFP — A lawyer for Time magazine in Indonesia vowed Tuesday to fight a Supreme Court decision awarding former dictator Suharto 106 million dollars in a defamation suit he filed against the publication in 1999. The ruling, announced Monday, overturns two lower court decisions and also orders the...
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Karen Finney or Dag Vega of Democratic National Committee, +1-202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, July 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Democratic National Committee:Dubbed an "honorary Texas oil lawyer" by Time Magazine, records show that Rudy Giuliani's business ties to Big Oil rival that of another...
David R. Hudiburg, president of Hudiburg Chevrolet Inc. of Midwest City, was honored for his nomination for the 2008 Time Magazine Dealer of the Year Award. Hudiburg was one of a select group of dealers from across the country honored at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in San Francisco....
WASHINGTON AFP — Beverly Sills, one of the United States' most acclaimed opera singers, died Monday due to lung cancer, US media reported. She was 78. The New York born daughter of Ukrainian and Romanian Jewish immigrants rose to worldwide fame in the 1950s-70s with to her soprano voice...
NEW YORK AFP — US President George W. Bush has been dropped from Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people for the first time, in a further sign of his flagging political fortunes. While Osama bin Laden, Pope Benedict XVI and even Borat creator Sacha Baron...
Their entwined careers at the apex of American foreign policy- making followed exactly opposite trajectories. One was the ambitious Jewish professor who started as the creature of his anti-Semitic boss, yet rose to become the most powerful and - at least for a while - the most admired secretary of...
HONG KONG, CHINA, Nov 12, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX -- WowWee, an Optimal Group company (NASDAQ:OPMR), today announced that its award-winning FlyTechTM Dragonfly has been named one of TIME Magazine's "Best Inventions of the Year." The HONG KONG, CHINA, Nov 12, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX...
WASHINGTON AFP — Desperate letters written by the father of Anne Frank, the teenager whose diary of hiding from Nazis documented the horror of Jews during World War II, have surfaced in the United States and will be released next month. Otto Frank wrote the letters in 1941 in...