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Neighbors said a MySpace.com posting by David Perkins, who is propos- ing the project, showed a list of events including bam- boo flute playing on Sundays; balloons, juggling and music on Mondays; and a Family Music Gathering and Drum Circle on Tuesday, along with others. (AP) (cid:199)(cid:60)(cid:101)(cid:104)(cid:1)(cid:109)(cid:94)(cid:87)(cid:106)(cid:91)(cid:108)(cid:91)(cid:104)(cid:1)(cid:104)(cid:91)(cid:87)(cid:105)(cid:101)(cid:100)(cid:105)(cid:34)(cid:1) (cid:106)(cid:94)(cid:91)(cid:111)(cid:1)(cid:87)(cid:104)(cid:91)(cid:1)(cid:106)(cid:107)(cid:104)(cid:100)(cid:91)(cid:90)(cid:1)(cid:101)(cid:250)(cid:1)(cid:88)(cid:111)(cid:1) (cid:106)(cid:94)(cid:91)(cid:1)(cid:100)(cid:87)(cid:99)(cid:91)(cid:36)(cid:200) — MARK REID, EDITOR OF THE BEAVER MAGAZINE. HE IS CHANGING THE NAME TO “CANADA’S HISTORY” BECAUSE “THE BEAVER” DOESN’T APPEAL TO YOUNG PEOPLE AND WOMEN. (cid:57)(cid:101)(cid:107)(cid:93)(cid:87)(cid:104)(cid:1)(cid:57)(cid:101)(cid:100)(cid:89)(cid:91)(cid:102)(cid:106)(cid:1) (cid:69)(cid:92)(cid:92)(cid:95)(cid:89)(cid:95)(cid:87)(cid:98)(cid:98)(cid:111)(cid:1)(cid:69)(cid:108)(cid:91)(cid:104) Carnival Cruise Lines has turned down a request from a singles travel group to book a second cruise with a “cougar” theme. The group says the ban is unfounded. They point to their first cruise in December, which drew about 300 women and (cid:55)(cid:1)(cid:76)(cid:63)(cid:73)(cid:63)(cid:74)(cid:69)(cid:72) admires a life-size tiger at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum Tuesday. The arrow- the men they call “cubs.” Carnival says there ridden beast is one of 35 works by Cai Guo-Qiang currently on display. According to the Chinese were no problems with last month’s trip — it’s zodiac, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, which begins on Feb. 14. (EXPRESS) just a business decision. 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The company says it might shut down its operations in the country. election of Pres- the feeling of prog- Chinese human rights activists,” ident Obama has helped U.S. race ress is driven in Google said in the post written by sion could force it to shut down Web searches in China compared of the most efficient in terms of cen- relations. large part by the Chief Legal Officer David Drum- its Chinese site and its offices in with 29 percent for Google. soring the Web,” she said. election of Presi- mond. the country. Clothilde Le Coz, Washing- To obtain its Chinese license, dent Obama. The majority of blacks Google did not specifically It’s unclear how much of a blow ton director for Reporters With- Google agreed to omit Web con- say they are better off now than accuse the Chinese government of to its business Google would suf- out Borders, called Google’s will- tent that the country’s govern- they were five years ago. participating in the cyber attack. fer by pulling out of China. The ingness to stop censoring results ment found objectionable. At the Thirty-nine percent of blacks — But the company added that it is country has the world’s larg- a positive step but added it doesn’t time, Google executives said they nearly twice as many as in 2007 — “no longer willing to continue cen- est population of Internet users necessarily mean more informa- struggled with how to reconcile say that the “situation of black peo- soring our results” on its Chinese but research firm Analysys tion will be available to the aver- the censorship concessions with ple in this country” is better than search engine, as the government International said last year that age Chinese person. the company’s motto of “don’t be it was five years earlier. Similar- requires. Google says the deci- Baidu.com handled 62 percent of “The Chinese government is one evil.” MICHAEL LIEDTKE (AP) ly, 56 percent of blacks and near- ly two-thirds of whites say the standard-of-living gap between ENIGMAS (cid:55)(cid:1)(cid:99)(cid:111)(cid:105)(cid:106)(cid:91)(cid:104)(cid:111)(cid:1)(cid:101)(cid:88)(cid:96)(cid:91)(cid:89)(cid:106)(cid:1)(cid:92)(cid:104)(cid:101)(cid:99)(cid:1)(cid:105)(cid:102)(cid:87)(cid:89)(cid:91)(cid:1)is set to whizz close to Earth on Wednesday. It won’t hit our whites and blacks has narrowed in planet, but scientists are stumped by what exactly it is. Astronomers say it may be space junk, or it the past decade. KRISSAH THOMPSON could be a tiny asteroid too small to cause damage even if it struck our planet. The mystery object is, at most, 33 to 50 feet wide. (THE WASHINGTON POST) NASA says that on Wednesday at 7:47 a.m. EST, it will streak by, missing Earth by about 80,000 miles. 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No lives were lost in that Reports of airplanes hitting birds even exceed 10,000 dramatic river landing. and other wildlife surged last year, for the first time — So, why the increase in bird- including serious accidents such as which would rep- The average strike reports? birds crashing through cockpits resent about 27 number of bird- Airports and airlines have and crippling engines in flight, strikes every day. plane collisions AP become more diligent about report- according to an Associated Press There were at least that happen RIZ./ ing, said Mike Beiger, national aMnoarley stihs aonf nae dwo gzoevne srtnamteesn at cdraotsas. 5se7 vceanse sm ino nthteh fsi rostf eetivrcnesmr syhe donawty s., tgaotvis-- OW LOW, A choaozradrdinsa ptroorg froarm th aet athirep Aorgtr wicuilldtulirfee H two migration routes from Minne- 2009 that caused OF S Department. Experts also blame Y sota to Texas have seen the high- serious damage and three in which CIT increasing populations of large est increases. planes and a corporate helicopter This photo provided by the city of Show Low, Ariz., shows the windshield of a Beech- birds that can knock out engines “Birds and planes are fight- were destroyed by birds. At least craft C-99 turboprop that struck a 2-foot-long water bird at 11,000 feet on Nov. 4. on passenger jets. (AP) Ford Jr. Weighs Run Against N.Y. Sen. Gillibrand (cid:57)(cid:101)(cid:100)(cid:105)(cid:91)(cid:104)(cid:108)(cid:87)(cid:106)(cid:95)(cid:101)(cid:100)(cid:1) THE BUZZ (cid:93)(cid:104)(cid:101)(cid:107)(cid:102)(cid:105)(cid:1)and scien- Gillibrand was appointed to tists want federal agricultural authorities to start (cid:68)(cid:91)(cid:109)(cid:1)(cid:79)(cid:101)(cid:104)(cid:97) the seat by Gov. David Paterson regulating shipments of commercially domesti- Former U.S. representative Harold after Hillary Rodham Clinton left cated bumblebees to protect wild bumblebees Ford Jr. is readying for a fight in RESS to join the Obama administration, from diseases threatening their survival. The the race to challenge Sen. Kirsten HE P and the White House is backing groups said Tuesday that four species of bumble- Gillibrand in this fall’s Democrat- MEET T her election. bees once common in the United States have seen ic primary. GES/ Ford, 39, moved to New York drastic declines. Bumblebees are responsible Ford, who represented Tennes- MA and took a job with Merrill Lynch for pollinating about 15 percent of all the crops see in the House, has not decid- TTY I & Co. after losing the 2006 Tennes- grown in the U.S., worth $3 billion. (AP) ed yet whether to get into the New G/GE see Senate race following 10 years N York U.S. Senate race, but he wrote WO in Congress. 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The economy lost 85,000 each opening in December 2007, jobs in December, the depart- when the recession began. ment said last week, an improve- (cid:77)(cid:87)(cid:105)(cid:94)(cid:95)(cid:100)(cid:93)(cid:106)(cid:101)(cid:100) Job openings fell sharply to ment from the average job cuts The competition for jobs is intensi- 2.42 million in November from of 691,000 per month in the first (cid:70)(cid:107)(cid:100)(cid:110)(cid:105)(cid:107)(cid:106)(cid:87)(cid:109)(cid:100)(cid:91)(cid:111)(cid:1)(cid:70)(cid:94)(cid:95)(cid:98)(cid:202)(cid:105)(cid:1)famed fying as companies are reluctant to 2.57 million in October, according quarter of last year. weather forecast will be arriving hire new workers, leaving millions to the department’s Job Openings Many economists expect the by text message this year. Peo- of unemployed Americans chasing and Labor Turnover survey. AP improving trend will continue and ple who want to find out wheth- fewer job openings. That drop may not sound like KE/ the economy will likely add jobs in er the groundhog predicts an early R U There were nearly 6.4 unem- a lot, but it’s the lowest number T RO the first quarter of this year. But spring or six more weeks of winter ployed workers, on average, for of openings since July 2009 and AT with so many people out of work, the can text “Groundhog” to 247365 M each available job at the end of the second-lowest since the Labor Douglas Rucker uses resources for job unemployment rate is forecast to top to get a text message with the November, according to Labor Department began tracking the seekers at a library in Philadelphia. 10.5 percent later this year. (AP) results of the ritual on Feb. 2. 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It was the larg- where, a U.S. government official concerned about everyone in Haiti, The security measures demon- the Shiite-dominated government est quake recorded in the area, said reported seeing houses that had including his relatives. strated the ever-present fear that and Sunni Muslims. USGS analyst Dale Grant, and the tumbled into a ravine. “Communication is absolutely insurgents will carry out more The suspects who were arrest- last major one since a magnitude- Haiti’s ambassador to the U.S., impossible,” he said. “I’ve been try- bombings, like the ones against ed Tuesday had been planning an 6.7 temblor in 1984. Raymond Joseph, said from his ing to call my ministry, and I can- government buildings in past attack that morning, said Maj. Gen. An Associated Press videogra- Washington office that he spoke not get through. ... 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