Archive for October, 2009
Abilene women dance to their health
Amy Cordova , Rosanna Verden, Norma Nunn and Saundra Mayhall practice belly dancing moves during a two-day workshop led by a professional belly dancer.
Popularity: 75% [?]
Contingency response Airmen build partnership capability in Egypt
Tech. Sgt. John Rickenbach, a team chief with the 621st Contingency Response Wing, assists Egyptian Airborne soldiers with the simulated loading of an M-113 armored personnel carrier during Exercise Bright Star 2009 in Cairo, Egypt, Oct.
Popularity: 63% [?]
Plain English and the need for speed-typing
Do you speak plain English or do you mangle your language like its been translated online? Into Welsh, say, and then from Welsh in Danish, and then from Danish back into English? In fact, I’ve just done that, with the first sentence, and it fares pretty well compared to some of the bilge that gets written by our language’s worst transgressors .
Popularity: 58% [?]
Egypt Train Crash Kills at Least 25
At least 55 people were reported injured, as one passenger train crashed into another.
Popularity: 78% [?]
Affidavit: Mom told deputies balloon saga was hoax
The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday.
Popularity: 75% [?]
Africa evaluates 15 years of population development ahead of MDGs deadline
Fifteen years after the adoption in 1994 of the Plan of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt, African Ministers and experts in population and social development are meeting at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to review the progress made by African Governments in the …
Popularity: 43% [?]