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Theatre review: They're Playing Our Song. Menier Chocolate Factory, London

guardian.co.uk     yesterday          

I was reminded by a colleague that this middle-of-the-road American musical first appeared in the same year as Sweeney Todd, but while Sondheim's 1979 masterpiece took the musical into uncharted territory, this show simply...                    

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anorak.co.uk: hospital-rat-300x201 Jamies Hospital Dinners: Patients Catch Rats, Flies And Roaches anorak.co.uk

Jamie’s Hospital Dinners: Patients Catch Rats, Flies And Roaches

anorak.co.uk     yesterday          

A RAT. A “filthy rat.” “A staggering 20,000 cases of rats, cockroaches and drain flies have been reported by HNS hospitals on just over two years.” So says the Sun on its front page. On a brighter note, at least you can see the...                    

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Nigeria: Medical Personnel As Merchants of Death

allafrica.com     Aug 4, 2008          

On Tuesday 15th April 2008, one of the dailies reported the heartrending story of how the callous attitude of a doctor and nurses at the Asokoro General Hospital, Abuja, caused the death of an unborn baby. We have been...                    

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Making history

signonsandiego.com     Aug 3, 2008          

S.D. artist Eleanor Antin uses the past to give a clearer picture of the present; her first major local museum show is at SDMA now In our culture, which seems to live for the future most of all, history is mostly seen as a...                    

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BNP also a fan of Anthony Browne

pickledpolitics.com     Jul 31, 2008   1 related          

According to Dave Hill, the BNP people say Anthony Browne’s book, The Retreat of Reason, is: A devastating expose of the effects of Political Correctness and its poisonous effect of public debate in modern Britain. The author...                    

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Life Imitates Farce

balloon-juice.com     Jul 30, 2008          

I wish I were kidding about this, but the indictment of another senior Republican is…. GOOD NEWS FOR JOHN MCCAIN: The indictment of the senior senator from Alaska on corruption charges is yet another blow to the GOP brand. But,...                    

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Researcher seeking syphilis vaccine dreams of finding a cure - literally

theglobeandmail.com     Jul 30, 2008          

Caroline Cameron is often asked about her job at a University of Victoria lab, the only one in Canada working on a syphilis vaccine. Even at dinner parties, shocked hosts remark - mistakenly - that they thought the sexually...                    

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Jane Hudson column: Books and bug bites: It's just not summer without them

reflector.com     Jul 28, 2008          

By Jane Hudson The Daily Reflector Now that I'm an adult, "summer" doesn't mean the same things it meant when I was a kid. I'm certain that my elementary school librarian, the late Margaret Hadden, largely is responsible for my...                    

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HONEST SHOWS QUALITY AT SANDOWN

sportinglife.com     Jul 25, 2008   2 related          

By Martin Kelly, PA Sport A trip to York for the Lowther Stakes could be on the agenda for Honest Quality after Henry Cecil's filly stepped up to the plate in the Listed Keep Able Star Stakes at Sandown. Having already scored...                    

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T.O. -- I'm a Regular Florence Nightingale!

tmz.com     Jul 24, 2008          

Filed under: Talk Sports Athletes saving the lives of sportswriters -- what's this world coming to?That's what went down last week when T.O. came to the aid of a journalist hit by a car outside the ESPYs. But the usually...                    

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