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Your... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37365645/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:58:42 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37365645/ State police are looking for a roommate of a man found dead in his Butler County home, saying his family is concerned for his safety. Clifford Stevenson, 56, of Harrisville was found dead Thursday. A... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37368352/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:22:15 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37368352/ A state arbitrator has upheld the firing of a Fayette County jail guard who falsified a duty log after an inmate hanged himself. Fired Fayette County guard Barry Simon, of Uniontown, didn't deny fals... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37368353/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:22:12 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37368353/ An indoor football team is coming to Western Pennsylvania. The Johnstown Generals are expected to begin playing in February as part of the Ultimate Indoor Football League. The league announced the t... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37368354/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:22:12 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37368354/ Once the cradle of European civilization, Greece is now at the epicenter of Europe’s economic crisis. The now-fading consensus in the market and among opinion-makers was that Greece is likely to... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362553/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:31:57 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362553/ Rami Khouri (“When Arabs tweet,” Views, July 23) believes there has been little impact on Arab regimes resulting from the current craze of blogging and tweeting among Arabs. Mr. Khouri say... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362720/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:31:43 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362720/ Sen. John F. Kennedy declared today [July 29]: “I speak as a friend of France and a friend of freedom” when asked for his views on the Algerian situation. The Democratic Presidential nomin... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362719/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:31:38 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362719/ Colombia and Venezuela squared off Thursday in Quito, Ecuador, at an emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of the Union of South American States (Unasur), a recently created regional political an... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362567/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:31:07 -0400 NPR http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362567/ July 30, 2010 Tom Davis grew up in Pensacola, Fla., enjoying everything the seaside town has to offer. But in the summer of 2000, when he was 21, a surfing accident left him paralyzed from the neck ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362568/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:31:06 -0400 NPR http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362568/ always is the picture of confidence, and defiance. Somebody should probably tell him that his self-confidence may not be warranted. First elected to Congress in 1970, Rangel, a key ally of Speaker http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362569/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:31:03 -0400 NPR http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362569/ The California State Board of Education almost certainly will vote on Monday to adopt the new national Common Core Standards. We say almost certainly because there's a lot of federal money at stake. ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362561/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:38:44 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362561/ The State Board of Education is voting Monday on adopting national K-12 curriculum standards in a package that includes an obese, unteachable eighth-grade math course. Back in May 2009, Gov. Arnold S... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362562/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:38:33 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362562/ Strong academic content standards are critical to ensuring that all students, no matter where they live, are prepared for success in post-secondary education and the workforce. Standards do not tell t... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362563/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:38:28 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362563/ The controversy over the forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod at the USDA has raised the issue of race in this country, but this story is not really about race. It is about journalism and facts. Whe... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362564/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:38:22 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362564/ From her red carpet snub at Cannes to her confetti-speckled entrance to prison, Lindsay Lohan continues to gobble up news coverage. The media and public alike are vomiting speculation about her jailho... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362565/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:38:16 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37362565/ For the LA Times to miss the significance of the name of the project, "Cordoba House", is to truly misunderstand the intention of the symbol of this building, and location for it.For all of you who wo... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364826/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:32:32 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364826/ Investigators are trying to determine what killed an employee at the Sewickley sewage treatment plant Thursday and sickened three of his would-be rescuers who rushed into a deep underground shaft wher... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364825/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:10:14 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364825/ By M K Bhadrakumar The season of diplomacy on the Iran nuclear issue is once again approaching. Another harsh winter has passed. Rhetoric has touched a point of diminishing returns. The lo... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364817/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:55:54 -0400 Asia Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364817/ regional states concerned about the prospect of a possible Iranian nuclear bomb. Domestically, Ahmadinejad's statement in a press interview represents a political gamble that may make it easier... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364819/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:55:53 -0400 Asia Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364819/ By Clifford McCoy BANGKOK - Cambodia's first-ever multinational military exercise is part and parcel of intensifying competition between the United States and China for regional influence. ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364818/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:55:52 -0400 Asia Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364818/ By Chan Akya Three discrete events over the past couple of weeks have confirmed the worst suspicions of non-Keynesians that governments remain not just beholden to banks around the world but po... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364823/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:55:47 -0400 Asia Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364823/ Gaming gamble for Google By Martin J Young HUA HIN, Thailand - Google is cooking up new recipes in its digital kitchen, with reports this week about a number of partnerships with online gaming co... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364824/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:55:46 -0400 Asia Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37364824/ It is difficult not to resort to worn phrases like ‘double standards’ when comparing the British media reaction to the contents of the Afghan war logs with its reaction to (any) Israeli mi... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37361957/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:09:21 -0400 Haaretz http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37361957/ The government approved on Thursday the sell-off of an estimated $29 billion in state assets over three years in what promises to be the country’s biggest privatization since the controversial l... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37361958/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:19:24 -0400 Moscow Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37361958/ Cranberry's engineering department has completed a project to map the township's stormwater runoff. Joe Caparosa, a township engineering representative, presented the results of the project Thursday ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37361959/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:00:27 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37361959/ The 11th Five Year Plan seeks to achieve 4 per cent growth rate in agriculture by the end of the Plan period. The Planning Commission is working towards an overall 9 per cent to 10 per cent growth rat... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37357329/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:59 -0400 The Hindu http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37357329/ — PHOTO: AP Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal who resigned last month (right) with the Chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Prachanda. The roots of the present... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37357330/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:58 -0400 The Hindu http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37357330/ A little over a year ago, Ali Arshad, a resident of Okhla in Delhi, went to a well-known private sector bank to open a bank account. He thought his case would be fast-tracked because he had a banking ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37357331/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:57 -0400 The Hindu http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37357331/ Ecotourism and western-style conservation projects are harming wildlife, damaging the environment, and displacing and criminalising local people, according to a controversial new book. The pristine b... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37357332/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:55 -0400 The Hindu http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37357332/ Bell , only one thing is surprising: that it's taken this long to be noticed.For decades, the municipalities of southeast Los Angeles County have been notorious. Many of them are too small and too poo... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37359410/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:14:08 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37359410/ Failing to achieve sobriety using AA and other programs that insist alcoholics are powerless over their 'disease' doesn't mean an addict is without hope. http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37359409/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:14:02 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37359409/ The Steelers report to training camp today, and this could truly be a case in which the last shall be first. The two widest open jobs in this camp, their 45th at Saint Vincent College near Latrobe, a... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37359407/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:53:16 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37359407/ While President Obama's Justice Department scored a legal victory this week when a federal district judge blocked key provisions of Arizona's new immigration law, it will continue to lose in the court... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37359406/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:43:35 -0400 Denver Post http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37359406/ The decision by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to allow patients to use medical marijuana in the 14 states where it is legal, including Colorado, is a humane and just call. As it stood, VA p... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37357192/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:43:31 -0400 Denver Post http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37357192/ Jul 30, 2010 - 11:10 - WAM Abu Dhabi, Jul 30th, 2010 (WAM) -- " You cannot complain of heat after stepping into the kitchen. In the age of Google when every click of your mouse is recorded and every w... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37359394/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:38:43 -0400 WAM http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37359394/ Friday, July 30, 2010 at midnight Even as the San Diego City Council struggles again today to fashion a long-term solution to City Hall’s financial problems, including an increase in sales taxes ta... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356755/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:18:47 -0400 Sign on San Diego http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356755/ This week, Orthodox rabbis, teachers, women, signed "statement of principles” outlining an open, accepting approach to homosexuals who want to maintain ties with community, family and friends. http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356754/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:57:03 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356754/ Mexico has a legitimate complaint about guns being smuggled across the border from the United States. The United States has a legitimate complaint about drugs being smuggled across the border from Mex... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354668/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:56 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354668/ My husband rode to work on his bike this morning and somehow dropped his wallet along the way. A young man found the wallet and made some phone calls to get it back to my husband. To make a long story... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354669/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:54 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354669/ Forty years ago, turning the Post Office Department into a semi-private operation seemed like a good idea, and it got a lot of bipartisan support in Congress. The army of letter carriers annually besi... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354671/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:50 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354671/ BAR HARBOR, MAINE — When the presidential family — and Bo the dog — spent a summer weekend in Bar Harbor this July, Mainers were delighted. It was the first presidential visit to the... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354670/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:48 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354670/ The House vote on an emergency spending bill shows that President Barack Obama faces weakening support among his own Democrats for his determination to keep at the war in Afghanistan. The $59 billion... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354672/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:46 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354672/ If you shun friends and social relationships, you're putting your health at risk. A paper published recently by Brigham Young University researchers says a lack of friends is as damaging as smoking 1... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354673/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:44 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354673/ Tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 are set to expire at the end of the year, leaving us with a decision to make. Do we extend the cuts, or do we raise taxes? I think we should look to liberal Hollywood... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354674/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:41 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354674/ A nonsensical statement too often appears in commentary about illegal immigration. It is that those illegal immigrants are doing work that legal residents won't do. The absurdity of this becomes appar... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354675/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:38 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354675/ This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This important civil rights legislation has helped to ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equal to other pe... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354676/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:35 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354676/ WASHINGTON — When people think of New Orleans, most think of jazz, hurricane cocktails, Katrina — and now the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But there's another stormy concoction barrel... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354677/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:33 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354677/ WASHINGTON — The current Journolist controversy that has the blogosphere heaving sparks, and Washington, D.C., even more self-absorbed than usual, is weak tea — a tempest in Barbie's teacu... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354679/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:47:29 -0400 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37354679/ R ep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) tried like hell to avoid a trial over his alleged legal and ethical violations, and in this election year you can bet Democratic leaders in the House were hoping for a se... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356753/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:01:11 -0400 Boston Herald http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356753/ A 17-year-old boy escaping police flipped his car in Arlington Thursday evening, leaving a 1-year-old baby who was inside the car with minor injuries, Pittsburgh police and a city dispatch supervisor ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356748/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:45:04 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356748/ DAVIE, Fla. -- The Miami Dolphins' eight draft picks will all be under contract when training camp starts Friday. First-round choice Jared Odrick and second-round selection Koa Misi agreed to terms T... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356747/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:45:03 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356747/ DENVER -- Paul Maholm's pitching line would appear to wholly explain the Pirates' 9-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies Thursday afternoon at Coors Field: He was charged with eight runs on 11 hits and thre... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356749/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:45:02 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356749/ If great nations are defined by their ability to respond effectively to great challenges, America is in trouble. Witness what happened on Capitol Hill to comprehensive climate change legislation. The ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356750/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:45:00 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356750/ Whatever else has been said about him, state Rep. Bill DeWeese has not often been accused of lacking intelligence -- maybe too clever by half, but not stupid. As a former House speaker and a major inf... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356751/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:44:59 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356751/ Senate Republicans delivered a crippling blow to campaign finance transparency Tuesday by threatening to filibuster the so-called DISCLOSE Act that Democrats were pushing. DISCLOSE stands for "Democr... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356752/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:44:58 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37356752/ Immigrant-bashing rouses mouth-breathers on talk radio and is lately a staple of the Republicans' political diet, with airwaves filled with references to "illegals" and "lawbreakers" plus even an off-... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352510/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:00:10 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352510/ July 30, 2010 Stories about India these days tend to focus on the new India — young, dynamic and with a rising GDP. But like many other parts of the world, India is graying rapidly. By 2050, a... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352506/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:56:24 -0400 NPR http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352506/ From her red carpet snub at Cannes to her confetti-speckled entrance to prison, Lindsay Lohan continues to gobble up news coverage. The media and public alike are vomiting speculation about her jailho... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352505/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:01:30 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352505/ Oregon's entire congressional delegation recently signed letters calling for a long-term extension of federal funds that help provide vital services for timber-dependent counties. Without approval of ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352088/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:45:35 -0400 News-Review http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352088/ GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would go 40 miles on b... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349666/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:45:17 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349666/ Ithaca, N.Y. BOTH the United States and Mexico have approached the war on Mexican drug cartels with Colombia in mind. Washington’s http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352085/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:45:15 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352085/ Sea Ranch, Calif. Between 1964 and 1972, the Yale School of Architecture dean Charles Moore, Joseph Esherick and Lawrence Halprin, along with Moore’s West Coast partners in the firm Moore Lyndon... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352087/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:44:57 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352087/ At a time when we have been exposed to architectural megalomania and corrupt planning (the new Habimah Theater and the Holyland project are only two examples ), we should applaud the sense of proporti... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352083/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:31:49 -0400 Haaretz http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352083/ Many studies have proven unusual success by Jews, since the Emancipation, in the areas of science and thought, relative to the populations of other nations. The survival of the Jewish people and its f... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352082/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:31:47 -0400 Haaretz http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37352082/ "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression."The decision to invest, whether expanding existing businesses, creating new ones or pursuing innovation, is inherently risky. In the best of ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349125/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:42:12 -0400 Washington Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349125/ Obama 's economic recovery program. A key element in our recovery is job creation and increased worker wages. But while the president constantly talks about the need for more jobs, not all of the admi... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349129/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:42:05 -0400 Washington Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349129/ Department of Homeland Security recently announced that it wants to buy 3,000 dogs from breeders to increase its force of canines that sniff out explosives, cash and drugs. Thousands of homeless dogs ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349128/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:42:03 -0400 Washington Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349128/ View results Some congressional Democrats might actually be having second thoughts about creating new spending programs. Last week, the House demonstrated unusual restraint in declining to put taxpaye... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349132/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:42:02 -0400 Washington Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349132/ Eric Schlosser's book "Fast Food Nation" and the Oscar-nominated documentary "Food, Inc." he coproduced jolted Americans into thinking critically about where the food on their plat... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346209/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:52 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346209/ Examples are literally everywhere we look. Governments imposed compulsory, universal and "free'' public schooling. Government funding of the Erie Canal helped New York City become the world cente... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346210/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:47 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346210/ Perhaps I'm going a bit wobbly with age, but demonizing every aspect of the opposition (right down to their personal habits) makes it nearly impossible to agree with them should they happen to be righ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346211/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:42 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346211/ In "Warming alarmists can't stand the heat" (July 26), the Star Tribune allowed Peter J. Havanac to do a grave disservice to its readers by making false statements about me and other climate... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346212/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:39 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346212/ Forgive me, but this is a little confusing. The New York Times abruptly reported in a front-page story the other day that the Gulf oil spill ordeal -- "the worst environmental disaster America h... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346213/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:37 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346213/ I am an Anglo-Irishman who has the good fortune to be married to a girl from Minnesota. We return to our home in France mystified by the aberration in your legal system that already has taken 30 lives... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346215/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:33 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346215/ The settlement-freeze conditions set by the PA are reminiscent of the time Israel conditioned negotiations with the Palestinians on "stopping terror first." They did this on the assumption that it wou... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349122/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:16:04 -0400 Haaretz http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349122/ In order to live for the moment and forfeit eternity, Netanyahu will never tire of searching for a new pretext for treading water. He will search every dark corner with candles, which are soon liable ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349121/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:16:03 -0400 Haaretz http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349121/ Two people cannot divide up a property unless they are its joint owners. And two nations cannot divide up a land without first recognizing their joint ownership of the land. But neither the Zionis... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349120/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:16:02 -0400 Haaretz http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349120/ In politics, Netanyahu adheres to the principle "if they give, they'll get," and this gives rise to the question - what has he given Obama in return for direct talks? The details of the talks at the W... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349119/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:16:00 -0400 Haaretz http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349119/ Only the talk show host, Ayala Hasson, knows who the speaker is. His motives are also unknown. But why deal with trifles - the witch hunt has begun. Barely an hour went by and MK Zeev Elkin, from Liku... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349118/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:15:59 -0400 Haaretz http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349118/ BARELY ten weeks in office and the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition continues to defy politically improbable odds. "This bird cannot fly" was the consensus opinion at the outset. However, the m... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346184/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:39:53 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346184/ PRESIDENT Hugo Chavez is again beating the drums of war after Colombia presented what it assured was evidence of 39 camps in Venezuelan territory housing 1,500 Marxist rebels, all seeking to overthrow... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346185/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:39:51 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346185/ THE publication of the Independent Budget Review Report is the beginning of a long process that will drastically change the face of public services in Scotland over the next five years. http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346186/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:39:46 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346186/ ordable cost of most of their operation. And now everyone knows it.The choices laid out by the report yesterday would be tough enough for ministers. But they must be contemplated now in the context of... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346187/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:39:44 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346187/ However, it could open the door to litigation that could be very expensive for firms.If for example a firm decides to retire someone at 55 or even at 65, because there's no retirement age an employee ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346188/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:39:42 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346188/ retirement age is the rotting intellectual timber which has supported discrimination for too long. Someone who is happily and productively working on a Friday can be forcibly shunted out on Monday mor... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346689/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:25:38 -0400 The Guardian http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346689/ BBC2 documentary on the negotiations that followed May's indecisive election result has shown, the very attempt to write that history – or at least a first draft of it – can just as easily open a ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346690/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:25:33 -0400 The Guardian http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37346690/ The Steelers came to terms on a two-year contract with veteran tackle Flozell Adams this afternoon and he will arrive in training camp with them this weekend. Adams, 35, is a five-time Pro Bowl left ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349123/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:53:51 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37349123/ Chelsea 's parents and the press deserve credit for preserving her privacy when she was growing up, first in the governor's mansion in Little Rock, Ark., and then in the http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37345466/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:10:40 -0400 Washington Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37345466/ A 39-year-old miner was killed today by falling rock in northern West Virginia, the 43rd nationwide coal mining death this year. The fatality occurred because of a "rib roll," or collapse of an under... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37345465/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:33:58 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37345465/ A Marine from Williamsport who was based out of North Versailles died in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The Department of Defense identified him as Lance Cpl. Abram L. Howard, 21. He died while supporting c... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37345464/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:33:57 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37345464/ Former Pittsburgh Steeler Chuck Sanders jokes with those gathered before announcing his commitment of $100,000 to an effort to help ex-gang members rebuild their lives. http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37345463/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:33:55 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37345463/ Violent attacks on journalists and political opponents have had a profound chilling effect on basic freedoms in Honduras. When journalists stop reporting, citizens abandon political activities, and ju... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37342933/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:28:20 -0400 Human Rights Watch http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37342933/ art than a sport — and an integral part of Spanish culture. The American writer Ernest Hemingway was captivated by the sport and wrote about it often: "The emotional and spiritual intensity and ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37338898/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:40:08 -0400 NPR http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37338898/ Buddha's disciple Subhuti suddenly discovered the richness and fecundity of emptiness; the realisation that everything is impermanent, unsatisfactory and empty of self. In this mood of divine em... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37341827/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:10:04 -0400 Times of India http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37341827/ The family of a former Etna man said today that he committed suicide earlier this year after the Diocese of Pittsburgh reneged on a promise to continue psychiatric treatment he needed to overcome the ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37341829/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:13:05 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37341829/ Pitcher Ross Ohlendorf is ushered off the field by the Pirates' athletic trainer, Brad Henderson, after being struck in the head by a line drive in the first inning Wednesday at Coors Field. http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37341828/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:13:04 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37341828/ (Washington, DC) - The Government of Panama should ensure that a thorough and impartial investigation is conducted into possible abuses during violent confrontations between police and strikers from J... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37338598/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:06:56 -0400 Human Rights Watch http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37338598/ (Weekly Standard) Last November, as members of the House of Representatives considered the health care reform bill, President Obama made a dramatic trip to Capitol Hill. After closing down sixteen blo... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37337970/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:09:06 -0400 CBS News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37337970/ State Sen. Sean Logan, D-Monroeville, is resigning Aug. 24 to accept the newly created position of vice president of community relations for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, effective Sept... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37337967/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:52:51 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/37337967/