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On January 13, Howard County’s 2009 Relay for Life, an event aimed at raising money for the American Cancer Society, is scheduled to begin with a meeting held at the East Columbia Library, 6600 Cradlerock Way, Columbia at 6 p.m.
The relay will take place on June 5 and 6 at Hammond High School, where team members will camp out overnight, also trying to help one member stay on track during the entire event, which will comprise a Survivors’ Lap, Luminaria Ceremony and Kids’ Walk.
Relay for Life, the the world’s largest fundraising walk, is currently held in many...
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General Motors has just unveiled on Sunday the new 2010 Cadillac SRX crossover vehicle. The car is set to go on display at the 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit later this month, replacing the SRX model first launched in 2004. In order to be able to compete with better-selling rivals like the Lexus RX, Acura MDX, and the BMW X3 and X5, the SRX's designers took elements from other Cadillac models and melded them into this one.
The vehicle looks faster than its predecessor, with a curving roofline and a more rounded nose. A 3-liter direct-injection V-6 engine...
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According to a study published in the today’s issue of the journal Health Affairs, national health spending grew in 2007 at the lowest rate in nine years, mainly because prescription drug spending increased at the slowest pace since 1963.
The study belongs to researchers at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Overall, health spending represented 16.2 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, up slightly from 16 percent in 2006, the researchers noted.
The nation’s health-care tab grew 6.1 percent to $2.2 trillion, or $7,421 a person. That’s down...
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Madrid - According to the daily El Pais, twelve African immigrants struggling in precarious conditions in Spain decided to pose nude for a calendar; the money raised will help them survive for a while, until they manage to find a job.
The men from Mali, Togo, Senegal and Mauritania appear in discreet pictures taken by Valencia photographer Adolfo Lopez in the calendar unofficially sponsored by an immigrant support organization.
Lopez said he tried to take elegant pictures to reflect the dignity of migrants.
"Without clothes, we are all equal," said 32-year Mady...
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Islamabad - At least seven people, including five policemen, were killed and around two dozen injured Sunday when a suicide attacker targeted a police vehicle in north-west Pakistan, a security official said.
The explosion in Dera Ismail Khan district of Pakistan's North- Western Frontier Province destroyed the vehicle.
"A suicide bomber blew himself up as a police van carrying several law enforcers reached the site of a low-intensity roadside blast near a restaurant," said a police official Sanaullah Khan.
He said the five policemen inside the van were killed and...
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