JIM DAVIS: The Peculiar Gifts That Abound During the Holiday Season
First, I want to say a few words to all the readers who have been lying awake nights, worrying about the wallet that I reported lost in my last column. Rest easy; I found it. I'm not going ...
The Southern Pines Pilot,
Sat Dec 05 12:26:59 PST 2009
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Savannah River Bridge Run runners opt for warmth, silliness
P ERHAPS THE MOST PECULIAR THING MANY SAW Saturday morning during this year's Savannah River Bridge Run was the number of people willing to take on the rain, wind and chilly temperatures. U...
Savannah Morning News,
Sun Dec 06 03:22:22 PST 2009
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Diminishing returns on Philly athletes
Allen Iverson's tearful homecoming on Thursday was a reminder of the peculiar physics of Philadelphia's sports universe. Here, it often seems, our greatest athletes are surrounded by gravit...
The Philadelphia Inquirer,
Sat Dec 05 15:53:00 PST 2009
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Linguist shapes alien tongue
HOLLYWOOD -- This modern era of moviemaking has plenty of peculiar challenges for actors -- on green-screen sets, for instance, they have to watch a pingpong ball hanging from a string and ...
The News Journal,
Sun Dec 06 00:58:16 PST 2009
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Mystery books
Last year's rumor
Denver Post,
Sun Dec 06 00:16:47 PST 2009
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Vail travel: Speeding past the 'island mountains'
VAIL, Colorado - As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I haven't seen any of the American fast food chains and even here, further north, there are no "finger-licking," "char-broiled," "Big ...
Vail Daily,
Sat Dec 05 20:24:50 PST 2009
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BP's sun king reflects on solar power's future
Like anyone running a solar power company, BP Solar's chief executive, Rayed Fezzani, has a peculiar job. The solar industry, by definition, depends on sunlight. Yet where do solar panel an...
Independent,
Sat Dec 05 16:10:16 PST 2009
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Granite City district hires a private eye
School leaders in Granite City decided several weeks ago to take the peculiar step of hiring a private investigator to look into allegations of an improper relationship between an assistant...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Sat Dec 05 01:36:25 PST 2009
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Sunday December 06 2009
DEC 5
The Malaysian Insider,
Sun Dec 06 05:25:52 PST 2009
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Moore: PHAMALy actor Roucis tapped for Ed Zwick film
Lucy Roucis, who has advanced Parkinson's disease, plays a stand-up comedian with Parkinson's in Ed Zwick's upcoming film, "Love and Other Things," starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathawa...
Denver Post,
Sun Dec 06 00:28:52 PST 2009
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Mark Heisler: Suns have revived the burn factor
After a brief, semi-disastrous interlude with Shaquille O'Neal, Phoenix has returned, with considerable success, to the fast-spaced, spread-the-court offense that scorched the league earlie...
Los Angeles Times,
Sat Dec 05 19:56:07 PST 2009
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Unknown package requires robotic removal
Septembre Russell
The Linfield Review,
Fri Dec 04 18:00:43 PST 2009
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Alleged Ohio serial killer rare among mass killers
CLEVELAND (AP)
Park Hills Daily Journal,
Sun Dec 06 06:14:06 PST 2009
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Family mourns son, despair he kept hidden
IRVINGTON
The Journal News,
Sat Dec 05 23:34:33 PST 2009
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7°C - Sunny Spells with only patchy cloud
DELIGHTED Colin Montgomerie reckons his fantasy European team is still on course to become a reality at the Ryder Cup.
Daily Record,
Sun Dec 06 02:51:01 PST 2009
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Tiger opens with a 66 in Australia
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)
Park Hills Daily Journal,
Sun Dec 06 03:40:28 PST 2009
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George Will: Climate change's dishonest disciples
With 20,000 delegates, advocates and journalists jetting to Copenhagen for planet Earth's last chance, the carbon footprint of the global warming summit will be the only impressive conseque...
Tallahassee Democrat,
Sat Dec 05 23:06:17 PST 2009
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Local woman, 83, slain; stepson charged
MANATEE
Bradenton Herald,
Sat Dec 05 21:44:27 PST 2009
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What's an extra $250,000 among friends?
When special public meetings are held in the week between Christmas and New Year's, it's a pretty good sign something peculiar is about to happen.
Daily Record,
Fri Dec 04 08:00:13 PST 2009
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