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Ben Nevis clear of cairns after five years' effort

Published Date: 14 November 2008 A FIVE-YEAR programme to clear cairns from the summit of Britain's highest mountain has been completed. More than 120 of the piles of rocks have been removed from Ben Nevis by volunteers with...

Five year cairn clean up complete

The cairns were cleared because they were deemed to be unsightly. Volunteers have completed a five year long project to clear more than 120 cairns from the summit of Britain's highest mountain. Ben Nevis' owners, the John Muir...

I Hate To Say I Told You So

AMERICAN POLITICS] Had the Republicans made greater efforts to project themselves as a party in sync with the younger generation of voters, they could have potentially avoided last week's embarrassing defeat to the Democrats.

2008-09 Top 100 High School Girl’s Prospects

By Kelvin Powell The state of Texas is staking a claim as the most fertile of grounds for big-time high-school girls basketball and it’s doing it in a big way…a really big way. As in Houston’s Nimitz High’s 6-8 forward Brittany...

Chicago Daily News Photos 1902-1933

Man walks on water from the archives of the Chicago Daily News. During the Progressive Era conservation and environmental concerns became increasingly important thanks to pictures like the one above. It's important to note that...

Turning up the heat on boiler room fraud

Every year British investors are being conned out of £500m by so-called boiler rooms - illegal overseas share pushers selling virtually worthless stocks using high-pressure tactics. But even that estimate is "conservative,...

Yosemite glacier on thin ice, proof of Global Climate Change

Do you still think there is no such thing as Global Climate change? ON THE LYELL GLACIER – As melting water gushed off the ice in a tinseled maze of rivulets and tumbled through a gaping chasm, the hikers watched, wondered and...

Engineering Meets Environment in Seventh Annual Solar Cup

Melding engineering and environmental lessons, the seventh annual Solar Cup(TM) has been launched by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California with 40 schools and about 800 students fro.. - Read more

Popular state quarter program ends with Hawaii

With a big aloha to Hawaii, a new generation of coin collectors are shutting their books on the U.S. Mint's popular 10-year state quarter program full of fond family memories and a fun dose of history.

Trump leads way in £3bn building bonanza

Published Date: 06 November 2008 DONALD Trump's dream golf resort will spearhead a massive £3 billion investment bonanza in the North-east of Scotland, it was revealed yesterday. But Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Future...

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