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...Pilbeam convened a small review committee in November 2007. After receiving the report early last month, Hammonds said she planned to look through the committee’s suggestions and respond with comments and questions of her own. Once Hammonds submits her revisions to the review committee, a final version may then be assembled for potential public dissemination. In an interview the day she received the report, Hammonds declined to provide a date for the report’s public release. “I think it’s going to take me a bit of time to read...
...Early settlers in the U.S. Northeast and Canada learned about sugar maples from Native Americans. Various legends exist to explain the initial discovery. One is that the chief of a tribe threw a tomahawk at a tree, sap ran out and his wife boiled venison in the liquid. Another version holds that Native Americans stumbled on sap running from a broken maple branch...
...original version of this article misstated that William Cellini is accused of trying to shake down the Teachers' Retirement System and other firms for $1.5 million in campaign funds for Blagojevich. No specific dollar figure is cited in the indictment against Cellini...
...relationships between Thai politicians, military officers and those who serve the King - is an all but impossible task. After all, Apirat's own father, General Sunthorn Kongsompong, was a key architect of the 1991 army coup that culminated in a bloody crackdown against demonstrators in May 1992. Thailand's version of Tiananmen ended when the King brought together the country's two main political antagonists, who were pictured on television kneeling in front of the stern-faced monarch. In a surprising move on Monday, a group of Thai senators filed a petition to the King pleading for him to intervene...
...daylong celebration transforms the presidential yard into official Washington's version of an amusement park, with food, games, music, storytelling, and, yes, thousands of eggs. The President and first lady generally attend, along with other notables ranging from Beltway celebs (Attorney General Janet Reno read attendees a story called "Queen Janet from the Bunny Planet" in 1997) to full-on stars (the Jonas Brothers performed last year). And, of course, there is egg rolling - a European custom of murky origin wherein a hard-boiled egg is pushed, dragged, flung or otherwise propelled across a lawn with a long-handled spoon...