GEORGIAN OFFICIALS are expected to meet rebel Abkhaz representatives and their Russian backers today to discuss tension over Tbilisi's operation to stop foreign vessels delivering supplies to the isolated separatist region. Abkhaz leader Sergei Bagapsh has ordered his enclave's tiny navy to destroy any Georgian ships near its Black Sea...
Concern Over Evictions Of Displaced Persons
Scoop
Scoop
Thursday, 26 August 2010, 6:27 pm Press Release: United Nations Georgia: UN Refugee Agency Concerned Over Evictions Of Displaced Persons New York, Aug 25 2010 3:10PM The United Nations refugee agency has expressed...
The Origin of the Log Cabin in North America
The Examiner
The Examiner
Why are there no log cabins at Plymouth Plantation? A rising sixth grader from Mansfield, Ohio recently wrote me with a question. Her family had just returned from a vacation on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The highlight of...
Earnings outlook for Georgia's biggest companies is one of caution [The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
Insurance Newsnet
Insurance Newsnet
Aug. 18--A little more than halfway through 2010, how is the year shaping up for the 10 largest Georgia-based publicly traded companies? In a word: Cautiously. While many of the top companies have been profitable in the...
Who built the ancient stone architecture of Canda & New England ? - Part 1
The Examiner
The Examiner
A reader from Pittsfield, Massachusetts emailed this examiner with comments on the article about the stone structures near the Kusa archaeological site in northwestern Georgia. He was surprised that the Southern...
Who built the ancient stone architecture of Canada & New England ? - Part 1
The Examiner
The Examiner
A reader from Pittsfield, Massachusetts emailed this examiner with comments on the article about the stone structures near the Kusa archaeological site in northwestern Georgia. He was surprised that the Southern...
Modernism in a Capsule
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
By KAREN WILKIN Washington 'American pioneers" conjures up a Hollywood- inflected vision of the second half of the 19th century: steely eyed men with rifles, and women in sunbonnets, heading west in covered wagons to...
In Brief
Kathimerini
Kathimerini
WEST NILE Third elderly person dies after contracting virus A third person has died after contracting the West Nile virus, which is carried by mosquitoes, authorities said yesterday. The 80-year-old man was being treated...
FEATURE : Gold rush exacerbates threat to Suriname rainforest
Taipei Times
Taipei Times
SMALL MINERS: Shanty towns are cropping up all over the country’s rainforest to provide food, lodging and prostitutes to the men that ravish the environment AP , PARAMARIBO, SURINAME “It’s hard, but I’m used to it.” —...



