USA TODAY Continues 25th Anniversary Celebration with Weekly TopMSN MoneyCentral - In 1982, most PCs were connected to little more than dot-matrix printers. Owners soon hooked them to each other - and a little academic network called the Internet. A phenomenon was born. USA TODAY chose events that turned the Net into the tool it […]

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Music rolls, tears spill on Darfur anniversarySan Francisco Gate - The music was playing — lilting Sudanese dance tunes — and the tears were flowing at a rally at San Francisco’s Civic Center on Sunday calling for an end to the genocide in Darfur. The gathering drew a crowd of hundreds to commemorate the fourth […]

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Celebrity blogger sued for copyright infringementSaskatoon Star Phoenix - Just days after being slapped with another copyright infringement lawsuit in the U.S., celebrity blogger Perez Hilton was hit again — this time only minutes after he landed in Sydney, Australia. Jamie Fawcett of the PhotoNews agency served Hilton
Tobey Maguire bemoans the price […]

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Bjork Wows at Coachella Music FestivalHampton Roads Daily Press - INDIO, Calif. — With a lineup of performers as hot as the triple-digit weather, tens of thousands of music fans descended on the California desert Saturday for the second of three days of performances by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arcade Fire, Bjork […]

‘Facade lift’ is more than just decorationChicago Tribune - Chicago — Two recent articles by Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin (”The danger of becoming skin deep,” Arts & Entertainment, April 8, and “Why bad planning = bad preservation,” Arts & Entertainment, April 15), object to city-approved
Qanat Al Qasba participates at the […]

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