"True Blood'': Digging up the undead (San Jose Mercury News)
LOS ANGELES — Alan Ball, seeking a break from the stress and high expectations that had accompanied the winding down of the high-profile series he created for HBO, the existential, darkly comic "Six Feet Under," set in a Pasadena funeral home, was just looking for a light, entertaining diversion three years ago when he started reading Charlaine Harris' "Southern Vampire" mysteries.
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Toronto film fest preview (Toronto Star)
The Star 's Peter Howell, Linda Barnard, Bruce DeMara, Rob Salem and Susan Walker have previewed dozens of the films coming to the Toronto International Film Festival. Capsule reviews here are in alphabetical order.
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REGION: Prop. A appears to be failing (North County Times)
OCEANSIDE ---- When the results of Proposition A arrived by speakerphone Tuesday evening, a low groan rolled through campaign headquarters. All at once, bond backers learned they had lost again. Preliminary results show the $589 million hospital
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More mosquitoes with West Nile found (Boston Globe)
Brookline Two more batches of mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus were collected in Brookline last week, according to the state Department of Public Health. Mosquitoes collected from a catch basin near Route 9 and Cypress Street tested positive for the disease, as did another batch collected in South Brookline, near the Jamaica Plain line. As a result, Brookline officials ...
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Inland community news briefs for Sunday, Aug. 24 (North County Times)
Business Builders Network to meet LAKE SAN MARCOS ---- Business Builders Network will meet at 7:30 a.m. Aug. 26 in the Trophy Room at the Lake San Marcos Resort & Country Club, 1025 La Bonita Drive.
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Stillwater medium links the dead with the living (The Troy Record)
STILLWATER - Since the age of three, Georgia (Czechowicz) O'Connor has been conversing with the dead. As a youngster, the Amsterdam native did not question what she was hearing. She merely communicated with all of the people around her as a matter of course.
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IATV and Toykopop Enter into Multi-Faceted Licensing and Joint Sales Agreement (Anime News Network)
NEW YORK, AUGUST 19, 2008 – iaTV ® (www. iaTV .tv), America's only 24/7 television network for Asian pop culture, today announced a program acquisition deal and strategic ad sales partnership with TOKYOPOP ® (www. TOKYOPOP .com), the leading publisher and distributor of manga-oriented entertainment.
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The Faith Column (The New Statesman)
‘If Falun Gong is benign, why is the Chinese government afraid of it?’ After nine years of persecution this basic question remains common. I’ll try answering it here.
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New York's Nastiest Divorces (New York Post)
“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue,� Edith Wharton once wrote. And it’s true: Anyone who can survive a divorce in this town deserves a plaque on the wall. Manhattan-chock full as it is of wealthy, talented and/or beautiful single people-is one of the best cities to fall in love in and one of the worst to get a divorce in. “New York is a town of more,� explains celebrity ...
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Spiritual Coach Diane Hall Publishes Book On Life Purpose (Press Dispensary)
Writer and angel intuitive, Diane Hall, puts her distinct brand of spiritual coaching for confidence and success on to paper in her new book Find ...
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