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...average number of weddings registered on the website The Knot for any Saturday in July is about 12,000, but for 7/7/07 the number tripled to 38,000. "It will be the biggest wedding day ever," says Carley Roney, editor in chief of The Knot. "Even more than the millennium." It certainly helps that the luckiest day of the century happens to fall on a Saturday, right after the Fourth of July. In fact, when Wal-Mart saw how popular the day was, it decided to host a contest where seven couples will win an all-expenses-paid wedding held...
...Part of the challenge is to recover these intellectual resources with the expectation that if this kind of work was important to them for almost two millennium, surely there’s something that ought to be of value for us in it, too,” he says...
...popularity prompted public agencies and private groups in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and Seattle have followed suit. The city of Santa Monica provides free valet parking on Sundays outside the farmer's market. The city of Chicago and McDonald's built their own Cycle Center in Millennium Park three years ago. And earlier this month, the mayor of Santa Barbara, home to 5,000 daily bike commuters, cut the ribbon on the newest Bikestation, an $80,000 self-parking garage inside an auto parking garage, offering showers, a changing area and a bathroom for fee-paying members. Bike parking...
...world's polonium 210 comes from a single facility in Russia. Investigators found traces of polonium 210 not only in Britain but also in Hamburg, at locations visited by Lugovoi's associate Dmitri Kovtun, the day before Kovtun and Lugovoi attended a meeting with Litvinenko at London's Millennium Hotel. Kovtun has not been charged...
...target now is to continue with bringing down the mortality rate to reach the Millennium Development target of a 75% decline by 2015," says Esmat Mansour, head of Primary Health Care at the Ministry of Health and Population MOHP. To achieve that, Mansour says, the focus now is on preventing infant death during the first 28 days of life due to low birth weight, premature birth and inadequate infant care...