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...just bankers and racers who are feeling the effects of the trickle down recession. After extensive research, Julie and Joe Dalli moved from central Florida to Charlotte about a year ago with plans to open a pizza restaurant that would appeal to 21st century carpetbaggers as well as the "halfbacks," northerners who are moving halfway back after giving up on Florida. "It was Charlotte. We never considered anywhere else," she says. "There were too many positives...
...states and plans to open more than 100 stores in the next two years in Connecticut, Missouri and Texas. The company will have opened 100 new stores by the end of the year, double the number opened last year. Aldi is also making a big push into central Florida, including cities like Sanford. The city's economic development director, Robert Tunis, tried for years to lure grocers to his city, about a half-hour's drive north of Orlando. Sanford's demographics are attractive: its population grew 27%, to about 50,000, between 2000 and 2006. Within a few miles...
...integration of former child soldiers. After Uganda’s independence, continued conflicts amongst rebel groups have thrown the nation into turmoil. Civilians of the north, particularly in the Gulu province, have fled to squalid Internally Displaced Person camps that are poorly supplied and defended by the central government, according to the Web site. “The war may appear to have ceased, but it will cost us more to restore the hope and happiness that used to take place in this nation” said Julian J. Atim, a Ugandan physician and human rights activist. Speaking...
...McCain seemed tired, as if he had been up too many late nights, and at times his answers meandered through a series of only tangentially connected sentences. But his central argument - that the race is not over, that he might still pull this thing out - is not completely unreasonable. It is not just that McCain has stared long odds in the face before and triumphed, as he did when his campaign collapsed in the summer of 2007, financially broke and in disarray. Back then, trusted friends advised him to withdraw rather than suffer a humiliating defeat. Even some...
...saying. "As far as I'm concerned I have given up." That was, as an Associated Press report on the speech noted -almost with shock - "an unusually blunt" statement from a man whose well-known global public image revolves around preaching the compromise and non-violence that are central tenets of Buddhism...