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...course of the calendar year most of your stocks have probably wilted. Selling now may seem like admitting defeat just when some of your old favorite shares are starting to show signs of new life. The end of the year, however, is the time when investors traditionally separate the wheat from the chaff with an eye toward both portfolio cleanup and tax savings...
...Lebanon and Syria and new immigrants from Turkey, Tunisia, Pakistan and Afghanistan--will gather in Cedar Rapids at the oldest mosque in North America and break their Ramadan fast with a Thanksgiving feast of turkey and stuffing, grape leaves, flatbread, cranberry sauce and kibbe--a Lebanese dish of cracked wheat, meats and spices...
...kill people, including, it turns out, Gaddafi Sr. "They tried, many times, to assassinate the Leader," he writes. Seif is brandishing an olive branch even as the U.S. extends sanctions against his father's regime. He says that Libya longs to send students to American universities, import U.S. wheat and medicine, invest in the lucrative oil and gas sectors and work with Washington to combat poverty and disease in Africa. "It is time we turned a new leaf," he says. The main obstacle is Libya's refusal to admit involvement in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103, which killed...
...Western Afghanistan, the IRC ambulance continues transporting innocent civilians injured by the bombing. In the North, more commodities delivered. It's colder. BINGO. Blankets arrive. Expected foodstuff: wheat, beans, sugar and cooking oil on the way. Three mobile clinics (think Meals on Wheels) provide health care to thousands of people, at locations where mothers and children die from preventable diseases every...
Extension School: President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who served from 1909 to 1933, initiated The Extension School as an enlargement of the Lowell Institute. Because Lowell House was already using the Lowell family arms, the Extension School designed another shield featuring two bushels of wheat, which was the fee for courses given originally by the Lowell Institute. Also, to signify learning by night, a burning lamp is shown at the base of the shield...