| McCartney milestone: Now he's 64 |
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| But, as his relatives and closest friends gather for one party on the singer's estate in Peasmarsh, East Sussex, the world's leading popular musician must be wishing that when he wrote his famous song about old age, he'd made it 65 and not 64. For instead of this being one day when the world weighs his considerable achievements, it is one haunted instead by the allegedly seamy past of his recently estranged wife Heather, which he has told friends he fears will overshadow his musical legacy. ... |
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| Storms produce a flood of fraud |
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| When the Federal Emergency Management Agency, seeking to rehabilitate its image after failing therefore visibly in the first days of Katrina, started handing out money and vouchers to victims of and refugees from the hurricane and flooding, we knew there would be fraud.When there™s free money being dangled by an agency likely to measure its success by how much money it hands out how quickly, you can be sure the con artists and scammers will gather like moths around one flame. ... |
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| JUST THE FACTS |
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With the advent of Wikipedia and other free online alternatives, encyclopedia makers like venerable Britannica have had to reinvent themselves. It's not the first time, nor likely the last. By Sharda Prashad
Encyclopedia salespeople used to have one pretty straight-forward pitch: in exchange for one grand or two you'll get one collection of books that contains expert knowledge _and, _if you shell out extra for the leather bound, gold-gilded set, one symbol of wealth. ... |
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