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Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students
See the discussion page for instructions on adding schools to this list and for an alphabetically arranged listing of schools.Thursday, September 15, 2005 Enrollment dates for many schools have passed, and will be indicated next to the school’s entry under the by-state list. Update will take place in the next few days.Tuesday, September 6, 2005 […]
Wikinews’ overview of the year 2008
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Also try the 2008 World News Quiz of the year. What would you tell your grandchildren about 2008 if they asked you about it in, let’s say, 20 years’ time? If the answer to a quiz question was 2008, what would the question be? The year that markets collapsed, or perhaps […]
Harvard’s Berkman Center blog group develops blogging tutorials
Sunday, March 27, 2005 A discussion group about weblogs, or blogs for short, that meets at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society last week began releasing video tutorials about how to blog using various web and software tools. Harvard University‘s Berkman Center hosts the blogging discussion group, which has met weekly for the […]
A Closer Look At Auto Exchange Policy And The Conditions And Considerations It Involves
Here’s An Opinion On: Rav4 Hybrid Sunshine Coast A Closer Look at Auto Exchange Policy and the Conditions and Considerations It Involves by laurencemodithre Most buyers spend a long time scouting for the right car among the hundreds of models in a showroom for one simple reasonthey don\’t want to be disappointed of their decision […]
Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up airliner
Sunday, December 27, 2009 U.S. authorities have charged Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab with trying to blow up a plane on its descent into the city of Detroit, Michigan on Friday. The man, who comes from a prominent Nigerian family, was read the charges in a hospital Saturday, where he is being treated for burns. The […]
Teräsbetoni frontman J. Ahola on representing Finland at Eurovision 2008 & more
Sunday, April 13, 2008 This article is a featured article. It is considered one of the best works of the Wikinews community. See Wikinews:Featured articles for more information. Teräsbetoni means “steel-reinforced concrete”, and is also the name of a Finnish heavy metal band formed in 2002. Their music, which centres on an honourable warrior lifestyle […]
What To Do When In An Automobile Accident
Here’s An Opinion On: Best Car Accident Attorney In San Diego Every year, the rates are increasing. More and more, people are getting injured, if not killed, from automobile accidents. Unfortunately, most of us will experience this type of accident at some time. That’s why it is important for us to know certain things that […]
Case against Karr dropped: no DNA link to JonBenet Ramsey murder
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Prosecutors have withdrawn their case against John Mark Karr, the man who confessed to killing JonBenet Ramsey in 1996, as DNA tests do not place him at the crime scene. “The people would not be able to establish that Mr. Karr committed this crime despite his repeated insistence that he did,” […]
Bank of England governor warns housing market is biggest threat to UK economy
Sunday, May 18, 2014 The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has warned that the state of the housing market in the United Kingdom is the current biggest domestic threat to the country’s economy, due to lack of house building, and regulatory issues. In an interview to be aired on Sky News today, […]
Fannie Mae forgives mortgage debt of 90-year-old woman who shot herself
Sunday, October 5, 2008 Fannie Mae, a housing mortgage lender, has forgiven the mortgage debt of Addie Polk, a 90-year-old woman from Akron, Ohio who attempted to kill herself when she was being evicted from her home on Wednesday. Polk had lived in her home since 1970, and refinanced her mortgage numerous times since 1997 […]