Great backyard bird tally coming to a yard near you Toledo Blade Spend part of next weekend counting birds and you could be part of a citizen-scientist effort to keep tabs on the numbers and distribution of more than 600 species across North America. | The effort formally is known as the Great Backyard Bird Count and it is set for Friday through Monday, Feb. 15. ...
U.S. aid-cutback plan sends wrong message The Miami Herald | If President Barack Obama's foreign aid budget request for 2011 is a reflection of his priorities in world affairs, it looks like the president is saying ``adios'' to Latin America. | The administration's foreign aid request to Congress for next year calls for a 13 percent increase for Africa, a 7...
Cartels Extending Control to Other Countries Newsvine | For the past months we have watched a very bloody war developing in Mexico between the police, military and cartels as they struggle for control of the country. Mexico holding steady on support of the US to keep drugs from being trafficked across t...
Hot love in Mexico, Valentines Day is this weekend The Examiner | Puerto Penasco Mexico is waiting for you, Sandy Beach, Mexico Anita Kaltenbaugh | News flash. Valentine's Day is this weekend. | If this is new information to your ears and somehow you missed the numerous hints on the Internet or in TV land, wh...
Valero has no problem with Demarco The Examiner | Edwin Valero is confidence personified. Here we see him wrapping his own hands before a workout in Monterrey, Mexico, prior to the televised fight, Saturday, February 6, 2010. On his chest is a tattoo of Venezuela's flag and its president, Hugo Cha...
Nelly Furtado Joins Hockey Musical Cast Chart Magazine | Would you think Nelly Furtado was a huge hockey fan? I wouldn't. I can't even see her as a hockey mom. | Nonetheless, the Canadian pop star is set to appear alongside Hawksley Wo...
Silver stocks smashed and bloodied Mineweb JOHANNESBURG - | What kind of investor gets mixed up with primary silver stocks, a global equities subsector that over time experiences some of the wildest gyrations in...
Piracy: Veil of secrecy behind moves for crackdown Deccan Herald By Eric Pfanner, International Herald Tribune | The deal targeted at internet use, could affect hundreds of millions of people around the world | Behind a veil of secrecy, the United States, the European Union, Japan and other countries are forging a...
Tomás Eloy Martínez obituary The Guardian | Acclaimed Argentinian journalist and writer who was exiled after the 1976 military coup | Tomas Eloy Martinez speaks during a conference on the Guadalajara International Book Fair at Photograph: GUILLERMO ARIAS/AP | The Argentinian writer Tomás El...
Lowe’s expands into Mexico The Business Review Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | | | reCAPTCHA™ | Lowe’s Cos. Inc. will open its first st...
Per-cow fee would hurt cattlemen, says Utah Farm Bureau boss The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 01/29/2010 01:52:28 PM MST | Lehi » The part of Utah's economy that depends on agriculture would be hobbled if the government increases pressure on greenhouse-gas emissions, a panel warned Utah's farmers and bankers. | Randy Parker, Utah Farm Bureau president, said a "cow tax" the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposin...
