News - Powered by Yahoo News"The Comebacks" a depressing sports comedy
The cliches of the endless stream of inspiration sports dramas in recent years would seem ripe for sending up, but the misbegotten "The Comebacks" fumbles the ball badly.
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:06:18 GMT - (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Marcial: Time's Ripe to Bargain-Hunt
Don't be spooked by the ghosts of 20 years ago, BusinessWeek's Gene Marcial writes. Instead, scoop up some good stocks on the cheap
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:26:04 GMT - (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
Marcial: Time's Ripe to Bargain-Hunt
The Oct. 19, 2007 sell-off should be seen, plainly, as an investor's bargain-basement oportunity. Panic, caused in part by the shadow of the 22% plunge by the the Dow Jones industrial average exactly 20 years earlier, drove the 30-component Dow down 366.94 points, or 2.64%, to 13,522.02. It also caused the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index to shed 39.45 points, or 2.56%, to 1,500.63, and pushed ...
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:08:42 GMT - (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
Charities: Setting agendas in the voluntary sector Comment
National focus on a local agenda Stuart Etherington: In the corridors of power localism continues to be the buzz word ... the time is ripe for voluntary organisations and local authorities to jointly set the local agenda.
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:54:54 GMT - (Guardian Unlimited)
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LOS ANGELES, BUSINESS WIRE -- Playboy's Bridget Marquardt, ("The Girls Next Door") is currently serving as the celebrity host of RipeTV(R), Ripe Digital Entertainment's (RDE) premiere men's network.
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:59:10 GMT - (R) Teams up with Playboy (Broadcast Newsroom)
Apple Delivers a Very Ripe Quarter
Despite the hissy fits over the iPhone price cut, Apple is selling more MacBooks, iPods and yes, iPhones, than ever.
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:48:55 GMT - (InternetNews.com)
Conditions ripe for 'perfect firestorm'
More than a dozen uncontained wildfires raged Monday across Southern California, threatening thousands of structures and forcing 265,000 people to flee homes.
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:59:19 GMT - (Addict 3D)
Editorial: Fires are terrible, arson is worse
We had hoped beyond hope that, somehow, in this season when all the conditions, including a devastating lack of rain, were ripe for the kind of wildfires that are a regular feature of life in what we like to think of otherwise as near-paradise, we miraculously would be spared.
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:10:47 GMT - (Orange County Register)
Time is ripe for Kauto Star to put his best foot forward
It should have been a big weekend for racing. The climax of Newmarket?s Flat season coincided with the start of a new jumps term at Cheltenham. Decent crowds, terrestrial television and stirring deeds at both venues. Yet the impact on the sporting nation was negligible.
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:46:08 GMT - (Times Online)
Galt hopes farmers market boosts downtown business
In a few months, Galt residents will be able to shop for juicy peaches and plump watermelons outdoors on warm, summer Sunday mornings. The city is ripe for a farmers market, city officials say. If it's a success, they hope it will transform the sagging downtown business district.
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:01:07 GMT - (Lodi News-Sentinel)