DHEC releases report on health of S.C.'s [ The Times and Democrat ] May 08, 2008  COLUMBIA - The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control has released its annual report on the health of the public and the environment in South Carolina, the agency announced today. Read More ...

The Answer Man [ Soccer365 ] May 08, 2008  By Brian Jennings - Look over the starting 11 for the Colorado Rapids so far this season and the name of Omar Cummings has been in the striker slot regularly. However, not many outside of the diehard Rapids fans know much about the 25 year old Jamaican. Read More ...

Real estate Q & A [ Boston Herald ] May 9, 2008  Q We made an offer on a house recently, arriving at a price and signing a contract after some negotiations that took place while my husband was home on... Read More ...

114-Year-Old Man Takes Longevity Keys to [ LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News ] May 08, 2008  A man who lived to age 114 died recently on a small Mediterranean island. Until age 102 he rode a bicycle every day to tend to his family's orchards. His 101-year-old brother, his two daughters aged 81 and 77, and a nephew aged 85 all still live in a small town on the Spanish island of Minorca. Read More ...

Man Sentenced For Cashing Dead Mom's Che [ NBC 5 Dallas Fort Worth ] May 07, 2008  A Lubbock man is sentenced to five years in prison for cashing his dead mother's VA checks. Read More ...

Arunachal faces power revenue versus env [ The Times of India ] May 08, 2008  For the submergence of 0.42 sq km of a wildlife park in a dam project, the biodiversity-rich but economically starved Arunachal Pradesh could lose the opportunity to sell more than 11,000 mw power. Read More ...

Beijing to relocate 20,900 rural dweller [ China Daily ] May 9, 2008  BEIJING - Beijing plans to relocate 20,972 rural residents from mountains to plain areas or towns to improve their living conditions and the environment in the next five years. Read More ...

Environment Ministry set to face public [ LondonTopic.ca ] May 08, 2008  Tina Dufresne, District Manager, Southwest Region, Ontario Ministry of the Envrionment, explains the construction of containment cells at the Pottersburg Creek PCB site in London's northeast -- the largest PCB storage site in the province. Read More ...

Living on the edge of Pokhran blast fame [  ] pride but, 2008  Khetolai , May 8 It should have been known as the Khetolai blast, is the oft heard complaint here. Ten years after the desert town of Pokhran became a global landmark with India conducting its nuclear second test, there is pride here but also discontent at being denied the fame due to it as the village closest to the test site. Read More ...

Google Grilled on Human Rights [ PC World via Yahoo! News ] May 08, 2008  Google's shareholders, following the advice of the board, voted down two proposals on Thursday that would have compelled the... Read More ...

For Chester Twp. man, it's home, green h [ Daily Record ] May 07, 2008  CHESTER TWP. -- A township man plans to build a home so eco-friendly that, from the environment's point of view, it will barely exist. Read More ...

Marin Human Race is 'going green' on Sat [ Marin Independent Journal ] May 07, 2008  Running may seem an environmentally friendly form of exercise anyway, but to be safe the Marin Human Race is 'going green' this year. Read More ...

Siemens Shared Services selects Oracle c [ Computer Business Review ] May 08, 2008  Relying on Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Automatic Storage Management, Oracle Partitioning, and Oracle Enterprise Manager, Siemens Shared Services's clustered database environment is expected to deliver the performance, scalability, reliability, and flexibility required to support its Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management applications and critical ... Read More ...

United Nations Environment Programme [ United Nations Environment Programme ] May 08, 2008  Bonn/Nairobi, 8 May 2008 - The theme for this year's World Migratory Bird Day: 'Migratory Birds - Ambassadors for Biodiversity' draws attention to the link between migratory birds and wider biodiversity as well as the overall state of our environment. Read More ...

Indians, Brazilians †Most Environme [ Nasdaq ] May 07, 2008  - A survey conducted by National Geographic magazine and polling agency Globalscan have revealed Indians and Brazilians to be the most environment friendly and Americans to the most polluting in the world. India and Brazil have been awarded 60 green index points. Read More ...

Man travels the world as Elvis [ KATC 3 Lafayette ] May 9, 2008  HOUMA, La. -- Elvis spottings are not as common as they were in the years immediately following the music icon's death, but don't blame former Nicholls State University professor Dennis... Read More ...

Man Appears In Court In Internet Sex Cas [ KITV Honolulu ] May 05, 2008  HONOLULU -- A Honolulu man charged with trying to meet two 13-year-old girls for sex made his initial court appearance in the case on Monday. Eric Shiroma is charged with two counts of electronic enticement of a child. Read More ...

Fear deer, not bears [ Nanaimo Daily News ] May 08, 2008  Nanaimo's burgeoning deer population poses a greater risk to the public than cougars and bears. Kim Brunt, a wildlife biologist with the Ministry of Environment, said Nanaimoites should appreciate the fact that they are living with wildlife but need not fear an attack. Read More ...