RTEHC to Host Summit.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-11 November 2008-RTEHC to Host Summit(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative (RTEHC) will host 160 experts and stakeholders from around the world at its kickoff event on November 10-11. The summit is being held at the North...

An easy burden; the civil rights movement and the transformation of America.
9781602580732 An easy burden; the civil rights movement and the transformation of America. Young, Andrew. Baylor University Press 2008 550 pages $29.95 Paperback E840 As the executive director of the Southern...

After the Taliban; nation-building in Afghanistan.
9781597970839 After the Taliban; nation-building in Afghanistan. Dobbins, James F. Potomac Books, Inc. 2008 179 pages $24.95 Hardcover DS371 Dobbins was appointed by George W. Bush as the first Special Envoy...

SYRIA - Oct 26 - Syrians Blame US In Deadly Blast On Iraq Border.
An explosion on kills nine construction workers and wounded 19 others near the border of Iraq and Syria, the police in Anbar Province said. Local witnesses said they believed the blast was caused by American shelling, but Major General Tariq al-Youssef, the provincial police chief in Ramadi, the capital...

Free(ER) press.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BEIJING -- China is giving foreign reporters more freedom to do their jobs. The Communist country began Loosening its restrictions on where reporters could go in China and who they could interview shortly before the 2008 Olympic Games. Previously, reporters needed the government's permission to...

Giving Iraq back: U.S. plan would pull troops out by 2012.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A group of schoolboys waved from the roadside in Ramadi last month as several Iraqi government vehicles sped past. Two years ago, this was one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq. It was a center of rebel attacks and a home to Al Qaeda...

Kurds Tell Axis Powers To Mind Their Business.
Kurdistan President Ma'soud Barzani, just back from a long visit to the US and deep strategic discussions with the Bush administration and the Democratic camp of President-elect Barack Obama, on Nov. 14 told reporters the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central government of Baghdad were taking Iraqi interests...

SCM Microsystems Receives Volume Orders of Smart Card Readers for U.S. Government Security Programs.
ISMANING, Germany, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SCM Microsystems, Inc. , a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, announced today that it has received volume orders of smart card readers for the Department of Defense Common Access Card (CAC) program. Recent orders from SCM's U.S....

BOURBON: Situation in Cameroon.
Eight of BOURBON's Crew Members Released on November 11th Have Arrived in France PARIS, November 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eight of BOURBON's crew members, seven French and one Tunisian, kidnapped in Cameroon last 31st October and released on November 11th, have arrived in France this morning. ...

Signature Event Raises Funds to Keep Spelman Students in School.
2nd Annual Blue Diamond Awards provides scholarships for Spelman Students from the Midwest SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Alumnae and friends of Spelman College from the Midwest region have partnered to host the 2nd annual Blue Diamond Awards. The fundraiser will provide financial support to Spelman...