Montreal Sex Change Clinic Attracting Patients From Around The World
- May
- 19
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Cynthia Tebbetts’s fingers fidgeted on the steering wheel during the four-hour drive from New Hampshire to Montreal.
As his blue Chevy wound its way through New England’s mountainous north last January, all he could think about was his imminent surgery in an unfamiliar, French-speaking province.
He couldn’t get there soon enough.
Tebbetts sensed the trip home to Goffstown, [...]
Lawyers Surgery Delays Sentencing Of Sex Offender
- May
- 15
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A sex offender waiting for a prison sentence gained a few extra months of freedom after a judge delayed sentencing so his attorney could recover from spinal surgery.
Juneau Superior court Judge Philip Pallenberg last month granted a three-month continuation to allow attorney Thomas Nave to recover from major neck surgery.
Richard Bailey, 60, in March pleaded [...]
German fugitive collared in Brazil
- April
- 20
The international police agency Interpol believes that Frank Armin Dahme was part of a 14-person German drug smuggling gang that sold marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines from 1996 to 2001. He is the last suspected member to be captured.
Brazilian police began hunting Dahme after receiving information from international investigators that he may have been living in [...]
Obama calls elitism attack ‘political silly season’
- April
- 20
The Democratic senator, campaigning in Pennsylvania, dismissed the charges of being elitist and out of touch by fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton and by Republican John McCain as unfounded, given his background.
I am amused about this notion of elitist, given that when youre raised by a single mom, when you were on food stamps for a [...]
CBS’ ‘Early Show’ is still a late bloomer
- April
- 16
On the air, CBS’ Maggie Rodriguez radiates niceness in a
generic, morning-show-host sort of way, so it was time for a latte spit-take when she got off a mean-girl joke recently on “The Early Show.”
The “Early” gang stood outside its Manhattan studio, preparing to do a battery of push-ups under the tutelage of a fitness expert. [...]
Pbusters suited and booted
- April
- 6
But it%26rsquo;s an outfit donned by Auckland scientists every week as they dismantle and analyse illegal laboratories for making methamphetamine, or P.
The Institute of Environmental Science and Research Auckland branch has a team of five scientists, called clandestine laboratory investigating chemists, who deal with illegal labs.
They are supported by a team of ESR technicians.
Scientists are [...]
Sara Evans to wed college football star
- April
- 6
Country singer Sara Evans, who finalized a bitter divorce last year, is engaged to former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker.
“The couple are enjoying their engagement and look forward to their upcoming nuptials,” Lori Genes, the singer’s publicist at Sony BMG Nashville, said yesterday. No date has been announced for the wedding.
Evans, 37, filed for [...]
Measure of a Nation We Are the Change
- March
- 14
MUNCIE, Ind. - It’s almost noon, almost time for what drew Carey Youngblood and his pals to the abandoned General Motors plant. Hands tucked deep in dirty jeans pockets, the factory men stomp their feet to stay warm as the countdown begins.(Ten … Nine …)Youngblood, a stocky 47-year-old with 13 years at GM, eyes the [...]
Isbin draws welldeserved ovations with CSO
- March
- 6
It’s amazing that 13 years have passed since the Colorado Symphony’s last performance of Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez,” given the guitar showpiece’s innate popular appeal.
That this work is not a fixture on symphonic programs, as it deserves to be, says a great deal about the guitar’s historically secondary status as a solo instrument. [...]
Guitarist Isbin a knockout with CSO
- March
- 6
It’s amazing that 13 years have passed since the Colorado Symphony’s last performance of Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez,” given the guitar showpiece’s innate popular appeal.
That this work is not a fixture on symphonic programs, as it deserves to be, says a great deal about the guitar’s historically secondary status as a solo instrument. [...]
