Feb 18
The U.S. Postal Service unveiled in San Francisco the new ‘Forever’ stamp Monday, just in time for the Lunar New Year—and a 1-cent price hike. The stamp is part of a series by artist New York artist Kim Mak, that began with the Year of the Rat in 2008. the Chinese horoscope is based on …
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Feb 01
the mean pay is $10 in Manhattan, $9 in Queens and $8.50 in Brooklyn, the survey of 436 non-union workers at national and local chains such as Sears and Cookies found. Mayor Bloomberg last week called on Gov. Cuomo to increase the state minimum wage. “The public can no longer stand on the sidelines when …
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Jan 26
by Chris Hoover/Doha George Mikhalides trained Al Mujahaz came into classic contention with an impressive win in the HH Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalifa al-Thani Trophy, the highlight of races held yesterday at the Racing and Equestrian Club. Sheikh Hamad bin Mishal bin Hamad al-Thani owned Al Mujahaz ran straight as an arrow and won the …
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Jan 23
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stormed to an upset victory in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, dealing a sharp setback to former front-runner Mitt Romney and suddenly scrambling the race for the Republican presidential nomination. In victory, Gingrich praised his Republican rivals and attacked President Barack Obama and “elites in …
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Jan 22
Until this day, there are countless of stamp collectors all over the world who continue to gather the best of stamps and thereby come up with their own personal stamp collection. if you have plans of becoming one, make it a point that you are prepared for such hobby entails giving it a lot of …
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Jan 21
While he was decorating a family room for a young husband and wife with little money for original art, Brandon Neff proposed breaking out the box of vintage postcards the couple had inherited. The vibrant, colorful and kitschy illustrated collection of 1950s to ’60s-era postcards featured almost every state in the U.S. “I made the …
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Jan 02
TRENTON, N.J. — new Jersey’s Hunterdon County, the hilly region of horse farms and weekend retreats where last year’s median household income was almost $100,000, is a surprising new face of federal food aid. Hunterdon, whose 2010 median household income of $97,874 was the highest in new Jersey and fourth-highest in the country, saw food-stamp …
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Jan 02
Sweden will commemorate the centenary of the birth of Raoul Wallenberg in 2012 with a series of postage stamps and a touring exhibition about the World War II hero credited with rescuing tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews. Organisers launched a photo exhibition about Wallenberg in Stockholm on Tuesday, and two new stamps that will …
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Jan 02
A young fruit vendor, overcome by desperation, sets himself on fire in a public square in Tunisia. His suicide sparks protests around the globe. Millions take to the streets. Untold thousands die. Entrenched dictatorial regimes crumble seemingly overnight. To commemorate this worldwide struggle for freedom, TIME magazine honors “The Protester” as Person of the Year, …
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Dec 16
Isaiah Vaughn is 5 years old, deaf and doesn’t understand much of what his mother says. So he was terrified a few days after Thanksgiving, when she packed his stuff at their Charlotte home, drove two hours east to Morganton, and left him in the care of the N.C. School for the Deaf. “When I …
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