Archive for January, 2010
Taylor wins Grammy best album; Beyonce wins 6 (AP)
AP – Beyonce became the most decorated female on a Grammy night as she collected six trophies, including song of the year for her anthem “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” but it was another diva — Taylor Swift — who nabbed the top honor, album of the year, for her best-selling “Fearless.”
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U.S. military resuming Haiti medical flights (AP)
AP – The U.S. military will resume bringing Haitian earthquake victims to the United States aboard its planes for medical treatment, ending a suspension that lasted several days, the White House said Sunday.
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If I didn’t take it all off for Cosmo I wouldn’t be new Mass. senator
Newly-elected Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown Sunday defended his nude photo spread from his college days – and said the racy pictures helped get him where he is today.
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Baptists say they were trying to do good in Haiti (AP)
AP – Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.
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Haiti Workers Change Approach To Aid Distribution
South Florida key to recovery in Haiti, but road is long and uncharted
Hours after the earthquake in Haiti, South Florida emerged as a natural staging area for an epic relief effort to a nation now tragically defined by loss.
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Painful plight of Haiti’s ‘restavec’ children
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – In Haiti its’ not uncommon for children to be sent to other families. But the United Nations says ‘restavec’ — as the practice is known — is a ‘modern form of slavery.’
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Disease stalks desperate Haiti quake survivors
Haiti’s government and UN agencies Saturday prepared for a mass vaccination drive as potentially deadly diseases such as diarrhoea sprung up at squalid camps housing desperate quake survivors.
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Haiti earthquake – Buckland St Mary aid
CHILDREN at Buckland St Mary Primary School organised an event all by themselves in response to the earthquake disaster in Haiti.
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Haiti Workers Change Approach To Aid Distribution
Officials say they are still far short of reaching all Haiti earthquake victims who need food, but relief workers are changing the distribution method in hopes it’ll be less cut…
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Beyonce wins 4 Grammys in pretelecast show (AP)
AP – Beyonce, the year’s top Grammy nominee with 10 bids, was the early leader Sunday as she won four trophies during the pre-telecast ceremony including best R&B song for her omnipresent hit, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).”
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Rex-rated! New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan gives fans the middle finger in South Florida
Rex Ryan fell one game short of the Super Bowl, but he’s making his presence felt in South Florida. The Jets’ coach attended an MMA event in the area and let some fans (presumably Dolphins fans) know how he, ahem, feels about them.
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