three wise monkeys

If you haven’t read Donovan Webster’s book, or watched the associated documentary, Aftermath: Remnants of War, this story is a timely reminder that war stays with us a very long time indeed.

Highly recommending reading and viewing.

Italian woman finds live grenade in potato bag

Grenade was harvested in French field, officials explain
Feb 28, 2007 12:03 PM
Reuters

NAPLES, Italy – A 74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds.

“I found a bomb in the potatoes,” Olga Mauriello said in a telephone interview with Reuters.
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By SAM DILLON
Published: February 25, 2007

GREENCASTLE, Ind. — When a psychology professor at DePauw University here surveyed students, they described one sorority as a group of “daddy’s little princesses” and another as “offbeat hippies.” The sisters of Delta Zeta were seen as “socially awkward.”

Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.
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Feb 24, 2007 05:47 PM
Nick Kyonka
Staff Reporter

Residents of a downtown neighbourhood woke up today to the stench of 100 dead sheep wafting in from the back yard of a nearby rooming house.
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Globe and Mail Update

The implications of climate change can be overwhelming. They touch every field, from science to economics to culture. Our New Climate Almanac 2007 breaks down the complexity with a concise miscellany of the latest ideas, facts and predictions.
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Paraglider survives killer storm

Feb 16, 2007 10:52 AM
Rob Taylor
Reuters news Agency

CANBERRA – A German paraglider was encased in ice and blacked out after being sucked into a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia and carried to a height greater than Mount Everest. She survived.
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PM says he’ll pick judges by ideology

Feb 14, 2007 08:46 PM
Jim Brown
Canadian press

OTTAWA — Steven Harper is frankly admitting that he’s looking for judges who will back his law-and-order agenda — and provoking cries from his opponents that he’s trying to subvert the judiciary for political ends.
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Feb 14, 2007 04:30 AM
Linda Nguyen
Staff Reporter

A Wal-Mart greeter in Vaughan was punched in the face after she tried to stop a shoplifter with a cart full of baby formula, York Region police say.
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Karla a mom, ready to wed

Fri, February 9, 2007

Sources say the notorious killer and the baby boy’s father will tie the knot in the Caribbean.

By ALAN CAIRNS, SUN MEDIA

TORONTO — Karla Homolka is nursing a newborn baby, Sun Media has confirmed. Read the rest of this entry »

Thu, February 8, 2007
The cash-strapped research institute is in merger talks.
By JOHN MINER, SUN MEDIA

Canada’s only independent research institute is talking merger with the University of Western Ontario after running into financial difficulty.

The board of the Robarts Research Institute, based in London, decided to approach UWO because research grants weren’t covering its costs.
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Squabbling scuttles council photo
TheStar.com - News - Squabbling scuttles council photo
February 06, 2007
John Spears
CITY HALL BUREAU
Toronto’s new city council isn’t yet picture perfect.

Plans to take a formal portrait of the new council were cancelled this morning after the councillors squabbled over who should sit where. Read the rest of this entry »