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Update on Chick-Fil-A and The Cumberland Presbyterian Center

Veterans Attest to PTSD Neglect by VA

Mississippi Homebuilder Closing Sales Offices; Selling Properties

AIG Raising $20 Billion

Tunica new home of Mid-South Fair starting in 2009

Real Estate Deal-Makers Bank on Networking Sites

JIM CONRAD’S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER
Written at the community of 28 de Junio and
issued from a “ciber” 10 kms to the west in
Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas, MÉXICO

May 19, 2008

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FRESHWATER CRABS
I didn’t know that freshwater crabs existed until I
heard that men here go out at night to harvest them
from the area’s pesticide-polluted canals. I was told
that the crabs emerge [...]

Investors Said to Offer $12 Billion for Penn. Turnpike

The Return of Burma’s Monks

Personalized therapy for asthma and COPD could soon be here

New Group Home for Boys To Open in South Memphis

Thousands flee China quake area over flood fears

Late Senator figures in 2008 presidential furor (AP)

Autumnwood, Stonegate sold to New York buyer

Why GE Is Dropping Appliances

‘Five million’ homeless in quake

Senate Rejects Looser Media Ownership Rules

Carlyle to Buy Booz Allen’s Government Unit

CBRE Closes $2.1 Billion Fund for Institutional Properties

Barclays banks on offshore

GE May Sell Century-Old Appliances Unit After Profit Declines…

US Foreclosures Rise 65 Percent as Vacated Homes Add to Glut -

Soldiers hike to quake-buried Chinese villages

State of Nation’s Levees a “Mystery”

China quake death toll rises to nearly 10,000

 JIM CONRAD’S NATURALIST NEWSLETTERWritten at the community of 28 de Junio andissued from a “ciber” 10 kms to the west inVenustiano Carranza, Chiapas, MÉXICO

May 12, 2008

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NORTHERN BOBWHITES CALLINGFor the last couple of weeks during early morninghours when it was still cool but the sun was shiningbrightly I’ve heard bobwhites calling, hu-WHEET! hu-WHEET! Or bob-WHITE! To [...]

$1.5 trillion needed to avoid infrastructure disaster

Wall Street looks to US consumers for direction