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DENVER - Like a lot of people you meet in this city, Saul Cast is from somewhere else. He spent the first 20 years of his life hopscotching Latin America and the next 29 outside New York City. He moved west a decade ago after a friend convinced him there was a fortune to be made in real estate. It ...
Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:06:40 GMT - (Boston Globe)
Group tries to help young black men
When Paul B. Mohr Sr. was a poor junior-high-school student growing up in Florida, he was able to meet with black role models who took an interest in him, he says. "We were exposed to that kind of leadership, and it encouraged us, despite our poverty levels, to go on and graduate from high school, graduate from college," Mohr said. Mohr, who now lives in Montgomery, Ala., is the director of ...
Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:12:00 GMT - (Winston-Salem Journal)
Black widow spider bite prompts parent's journey to Mexico
People will go to great lengths to save their kids. Everyone has heard the urban legend about a mother who somehow summons the strength to lift a car off her child trapped beneath.
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:08:10 GMT - (The Steamboat Pilot & Today)
Cruise Lines Cater To The Casual Crowd
Freestyle Trips Eliminate Meal Schedules And Black-Tie Requirements Traditionally, dinner on a cruise ship is set for a specific time at a table with the same people for the entire cruise. Usually there are at least a few nights where formal dress in the dining room is required.
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:37:40 GMT - (Hartford Courant)
Marines begin to reverse drop in black recruits
The proportion of Marine Corps recruits who are African American jumped by 40 percent over the last 12 months, halting a seven-year slide that has worried service leaders.
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:08:58 GMT - (Montgomery Advertiser)
?Black Out Reser? raises racial spectre
An Oregon State University football event that was intended to raise school spirit had some students feeling things had taken a bad turn, after others decided to wear black face paint and Afro-style wigs to express their pride.
Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:29:31 GMT - (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Bold pleas for tickets meet baldly enterprising scalpers
Hours before the first pitch was thrown at Coors Field, dozens of desperate, ticketless Rockies fans searched frantically for sellers.
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:19:40 GMT - (Denver Post)
Men who built Arch meet fans, sign posters
Many had simply been hanging around the union hall at the right moment. Decades later, they've become local celebrities ? signing posters, taking pictures with babies and shaking hands.
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:21:13 GMT - (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Meet 'Flat Brett' Flat Brett goes everywhere with his family while 'Real Brett' serves the U.S. in Iraq
Flat Brett with his creator Carman Friday standing beside one of the many yellow ribbons tied outside of Basic Systems Inc. in Derwent. Lance Cpl. Brett Davis with girlfriend Jessica Metts meets ?Flat Brett? for the first time.
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:27:02 GMT - (Daily and Sunday Jeffersonian)
Seeing Greenbacks in Black and White
I've received lots of e-mails following my column on the recently released Ariel-Schwab Black Investor survey (pdf).
Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:41:19 GMT - (Washington Post)