Crew lands home-grown O’Rourke in trade: Former Kilbourne player…
The News Review:
- Crew lands home-grown O’Rourke in trade: Former Kilbourne player…
- Turning A Corner On Iraq
- Cannabis crop ‘most potent yet’
- On the trail of ratings gold
- The natural curriculum
Crew lands home-grown O’Rourke in trade: Former Kilbourne player…
Free with registration – Columbus Dispatch – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 18, 2006
O’Rourke, Worthington Kilbourne graduate, had a breakout season in his second year of professional soccer. He started 27 games and helped the Red Bulls reach the Eastern Conference playoffs. Still, he missed his home, where he hadn’t lived full time since departing Kilbourne for Indiana University in 2001. “I remember when I got traded to New York from San Jose last year, there was a rumor.
Turning A Corner On Iraq
Washington Post – Nov 18, 2006
It was lost when we chose to wage a unwinnable and unnecessary war. If were lucky, Iraq will go the way of Iran, another country formerly run by one of our tyrants and is now run by a home grown gang. If we are unlucky, Iraq will further fragment, setting a match to the countries surrounding it. Greenstock may wish we could have a do-over and that the parties inside Iraq that actually do control events there were people of different character but, wishing wont do it. Whatever window of opportunity we had to make things right in Iraq passed long ago when we pulled a cork on that bottle without a plan for handling the large, ugly and very visible genie that popped out.
Cannabis crop ‘most potent yet’
Times Online – Nov 18, 2006
Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. Police who went to his rented three-storey house after reports of an attempted burglary found home-grown skunk that was almost five times stronger than the imported variety. At Derby Crown Court Wyler, from Nottingham, admitted that he had grown cannabis for seven years and that he had stolen electricity to power his drug factory. Tests on some of the more than 500 plants that were found at the house in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, revealed an active content of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) of 29 per cent.
On the trail of ratings gold
Times Online – Nov 18, 2006
Each episode costs the equivalent of an hour of high-quality home-grown drama. But Woolfe insists that the biggest gamble in Sky’s history will pay off. “Viewers won’t wait to find out what happens next,” he said. “Unlike Channel 4, we will screen Lost as close to its US airing as possible. ” Sky has also signed a deal for “video on demand”, allowing broadband users to watch the series for around £1.
The natural curriculum
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 18, 2006
“We said you could put beer down and my uncle said, ‘Why waste good beer on slugs?’” While some children are busy outdoors, others are preparing to cook the tomatoes they picked earlier – an impressive array of cherry, baby plum and ordinary tomatoes, bursting with flavour. Home economist Helen Alexander is leading a session with a group of seven boys and girls with clean hands and bright aprons making tomato-and-basil tarts. First they make pesto with home-grown garlic and bought-in pine nuts, basil, parmesan and olive oil. “I’m going to be Jamie Oliver,” says Alistair. They use sharp knives and learn proper chef’s techniques for slicing the tomatoes so that they avoid cutting their fingers. And all the time they are cooking, they’re learning too. Geography: where does basil come from? History: how did tomatoes get to the UK? And they are discussing such topics as “food miles” and the benefits of buying locally.