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...good people of Toowoomba, Australia, a town of about 90,000 that sits atop the Great Dividing Range in southeast Queensland, have a branding problem on their hands. Residents of the nation's "Garden City" have not been able to use their sprinklers for nearly three years. Handheld hoses got the kibosh two years ago, and in 2006, watering the lawn by bucket was also banned...
...walk down Main Street in another small New Hampshire town chanting "Oooooooo Bama” and furiously waving a banner with corresponding typeface, I wait expectantly for the one question that will puncture my adrenalin-induced, partisanship-fueled high...
...Since January 2004, when a dormant, homegrown rebel movement ostensibly bent on establishing a separate Islamic state exploded back to life, more than 2,300 people have died, the vast majority civilians. The latest attack took place on Tuesday when two bombs went off in quick succession in Yala town, killing one and injuring at least...
...word. Italy's top court ruled on Tuesday that "though representative of obscene concepts [and] of a sexual nature," that world-renowned 10-letter word is merely a "vulgar manifestation of irritation." The ruling overturned a verbal abuse conviction of a 60-year-old local politician in the central town of Aquila who had directed the expression at a political rival during a 1999 city council meeting...
...awkward moment during an otherwise pleasant, diplomatic get-together in the nation's capital. Over the July 4 holiday two years ago, Senator George Voinovich was wending his way down the Potomac River, toward George Washington's Mount Vernon estate, accompanied by a delegation of European security experts, in town for a conference. A motorboat draped in banners that read "Equal Voting Rights for D.C." drifted up alongside the boat. Voinovich, an Ohio Republican, found himself at a loss for words. "It was very difficult to explain to my European friends why the people who lived in the District...