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Briefly in the News: Local nonprofit receives grant
Impact Giving handed out six grants totaling $130,000, including one to a Laguna Beach nonprofit, at its fourth annual "Making the Impact" awards ceremony earlier this month. Chhahari Inc. received a $17,000 grant for solar panel and battery storage...Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Ceremonies, Cinco de Mayo
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Climate change may be baring Mount Everest
A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth’s highest peak by 13% in the last 50 years, researchers have found. Rocks and natural debris previously covered by snow are appearing now as the snow...
Tags: Landforms, Global Change, Weather, Environmental Issues, Water Supply
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2 anti-slavery activists meet in Orlando to highlight mission
A year ago, a photograph of two child slaves in Nepal carrying stone blocks on their backs had troubled an 8-year-old girl, Vivienne Harr. The California girl thought about those boys, two brothers enslaved in the Himalayas, who were her own age....
Tags: Indigenous People, Ghana, Politics, Interior Policy, Social Issues
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'Girl Rising': Documentary's message obvious and important ★★ 1/2
From Sierra Leone, from Peru, from Nepal and elsewhere, the nine lives at the heart of "Girl Rising" are impossible to ignore. This consciousness-raising documentary from filmmaker Richard E. Robbins risks making the harsh conditions these girls have...
Tags: Entertainment, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Kerry Washington, Movies
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'Game of Thrones' returns, Kevin Ware's injury shocks and pogs in your Easter basket?
In case you forgot it's April Fools day, Google is there to remind you. Today's top "cold searches" will return you to the 90's with Y2K, Pogs hologram slammers, Macarena step-by-step and prom scrunchies making you want to jump jumping like a mac daddy....
Tags: Google Inc., Politics, Gays and Lesbians, Michigan Wolverines, Human Rights Watch
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George Lowe dies at 89; climber was on Everest expedition with Hillary
After Sir Edmund Hillary's historic ascent of Mt. Everest, everyone knew Hillary's name. Far fewer knew about his indispensable partner, George Lowe. Hillary and his friend Lowe were the only two New Zealanders on the 1953 expedition to the top of the...Tags: England, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Entertainment, Elizabeth II
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Deerfield church: Do more than give something up for Lent
Lent is traditionally a season of prayer, sacrifice, and repentance. For the past six years, Holy Cross Catholic Church in Deerfield has endeavored to observe Lent as a season in which one not only gives something up, but also as a time to help somebody...
Tags: Heifer International, Religion and Belief, Starbucks Corp., Social Issues, Charity
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The Wadsworth in Hartford is Screening a Documentary on Bicycling
With scenic backdrops ranging from the Scottish Lowlands, to Nepal's countryside, Reveal the Path (still pictured above) is as much a National Geographic documentary as it is an endurance sport biopic. Take in the lives of locals with Tour Divide race...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Aetna Inc., Arts, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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For Baltasar Kormakur, an extreme route to the Oscar shortlist
Baltasar Kormakur has had one strange career. After starting out as an actor in his native Iceland in the mid-1990s, he soon added directing to his dossier. He began with small Icelandic-language slacker films like “101 Reykjavik,” segued to...
Tags: Celebrities, Inglourious Basterds (movie), Indigenous People, Politics, Life of Pi (movie)
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Briefly In News
Commission to review complete streets proposal Adding bike lanes and enhancing crosswalks are a possibility for Glenneyre Street. The Laguna Beach Planning Commission will look into a proposal to enhance pedestrian and bicycle access to Glenneyre at 6:...Tags: Human Interest, Entertainment, Thalia, Rosalind Russell, Personal Service
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Dr. Robert E. Mason, cardiologist
Dr. Robert E. "Bob" Mason, a Baltimore internist and cardiologist who developed the standard stress test that has saved countless lives worldwide, died Wednesday of pneumonia at the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. He was 95.
"He was...Tags: St. George, Roland Park, Diseases and Illnesses, Johns Hopkins University, Hospitals and Clinics
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It’s a family affair!
FrameworkStaff photographer Ricardo DeAratanha shares his passion for visual communication with his family....
May 21, 2013
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