News - Powered by Yahoo NewsPeter Brimelow: Fabulous year for Crawford Perspectives
We didn?t name it as letter of the year, but attention has to be paid to 2008?s top performer, Crawford Perspectives, which finished the year in fabulous form.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:36:46 GMT - (Market Watch)
2008's Most Dubious
For a brief and delusional moment, we actually entertained the fleeting thought of offering our annual Dubious Achievement awards without having ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as the feature's centerpiece.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:09:05 GMT - (Metro Times Detroit)
Father of the ecosystem
In "The Invention of Air," Steven Johnson creates a fascinating portrait of Joseph Priestley, a friend of Franklin and Jefferson and a freethinker who changed history.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:03:38 GMT - (Salon.com)
Faith in a very Christian journey
Phillip Heath has thin, sandy hair and a pink complexion. He dresses conservatively, usually in a dark grey suit, and speaks in a soft, deliberate voice.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:25:07 GMT - (Bunbury Mail)
Binding Persistent Classes to an ASPxGridView
An entity class is a class that represents a database table, generally. It's not worth being dogmatic about where you get your entity classes. Sometimes, you might roll your own, you might use something like Microsoft's LINQ to SQL, or you can use Devexpress' XPO Persistent Classes.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:37:01 GMT - (Developer.com)
Pietersen and Moores resign
England in crisis
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:45:28 GMT - (Cricinfo via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport)
Pound's weakness in 2009 will be against the dollar not the euro
The pound and the euro will both be weak in 2009 and the currency story of the year will be how they perform against the US dollar according to one of the City's leading currency experts.
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:11:18 GMT - (Daily Telegraph)
Ex-refugee now 1st Vietnamese-American congressman
When Anh "Joseph" Cao was 8 and Saigon was about to fall, his mother asked if he wanted to take a trip to the beach.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:11:04 GMT - (AP via Yahoo! News)
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 8, 2009
STREET FIGHTING MAN All-or-nothing Omar: That was an interesting read about Omar Call ("Performance Athies...
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:13:58 GMT - (Phoenix New Times)
Abortion and the conception of life
Abortion is a tricky subject. The word "abortion" itself means nothing more than the termination of a pregnancy before birth.
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:39:54 GMT - (Las Cruces Sun-News)