What is a Navajo taco?
High County News - The sign at Ambassador Auto s used-car lot in Moscow, Idaho, is advertising a 1993 Mazda Navaho (sic) in stock for $18,487. Seems like a lot of cash, but then I remember the glossy magazine ads: "Navajo: It knows the land." Just down the street
State Sanctioned Murder
Falls Church News-Press - For the gay community, foreign affairs used to mean an exotic one-night stand with a hottie from a foreign land? Today, however, gay and lesbian people are increasingly subjected to horrifying images of their brothers and sisters getting maimed and
Moldova fighing Russian embargo of wines
World Peace Herald - CHISINAU, Moldova -- Moldova has decided to fight back against a Russian embargo of its wines by sending a parliamentary delegation to Moscow this week. Russia's RIA Novosti reported that Marian Lupu, speaker of the Moldovan parliament, met with
Russia ready to delay WTO accession - parliament speaker UPDATE
Forbes - MOSCOW (AFX) - Russia said it is ready to delay its bid to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) rather than enter on unfavourable terms, reflecting exasperation at what Moscow sees as US-placed obstructions to its membership drive. The speaker of
Ina Jensen obit
West Liberty Index - Ina M. Jensen, 88, of Atalissa, died Monday, April 10, 2006, at Riverbend Nursing and Rehab in Muscatine. Services will be Thursday, April 13, at 10:30 a.m. at the Bentley Funeral Home in Wilton, with the Reverend C.H. Meyer officiating. Musical
Should Russia Be Booted Out of the G8?
MSNBC - April 10-17, 2006 issue - Peter the Great built St. Petersburg in hopes that its sweeping neoclassical boulevards would prove to a skeptical Europe that Russia was no longer a barbarous Asian principality but part of mainstream Western civilization
Report: State Department failed to justify premium travel
GovExec.com - Two-thirds of the $140 million spent by State Department officials for premium-class travel tickets over a year and a half was not properly authorized or justified, according to a new report from auditors. Senior agency executives improperly approved
Space crew returns to Earth
MSNBC - ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - American, Russian and Brazilian astronauts endured a bone-jarring, three-and-a-half hour ride from the international space station back to Earth on Sunday, landing on target in the freezing Kazakh steppe. The Russian TMA-7
INTERNET NEWS STORIES
Industry Standard - ( InfoWorld ) - Comverse Technology has signed an agreement for its Comverse subsidy to acquire privately held VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) software vendor Netcentrex for about $164 million, Comverse announced Monday. Comverse could pay up
Bridling at US demands, Russia says it may call off WTO bid
Turkish Press - Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) delivers a speech as the speaker of the lower house of parliament Boris Gryzlov takes notes during his annual state of the nation address in the Kremlin in Moscow, April 2005. Gryzlov has given the clearest signal