Florida couple turns food talk into board game (The Pantagraph) - MIAMI -- Eric and Monica Ash moved to northwest Broward, Fla., from Alexandria, Va., in May with a newborn, a toddler and no regular paychecks to cover the mortgage or employers to subsidize the health insurance. Eric says they're living a dream.
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Is Bush back on the booze? Should Brown join him? (Guardian Unlimited) - Would George be a better president with a drink or two inside him?
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Potato country (Boston Globe) - It was 4:30 a.m., and they were already talking potatoes at a small television station on the outskirts of town. In the waning hours of summer, with the thermometer struggling to reach 28 degrees, I arrived half asleep and half frozen to listen to the conversation firsthand.
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The DS Fights Back (Forbes) - Nintendo's portable console takes a jab at Apple's iPod Touch.
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Updated 10/3: Calendar (The Doings Western Springs) - "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" will be shown at 1 p.m. Oct. 10 at La Grange Public Library, 10 W. Cossitt Ave. Registration is not required for the free program.
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NASA at 50: The Shuttle, Space Station and Beyond (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News) - One vehicle's operative life is coming to a close, while the other's is still in its formative stages. Their legacies will be inexorably linked: Without the space shuttle, delivery and assembly of the International Space Station's (ISS) key components would have been difficult at best, and probably could not have happened.
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Garden City Library News (Garden City News) - COLLEGE PREP-3-PART SERIES A record number of students and/or their parents attended the workshops for college prep held by the Young Adult Department. All who were able to come out on a weekday night were glad that they did. Tips on writing the college essay and organizing the application package, filing the financial aid forms, and test taking strategies were priceless.
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Trivia | Wall Street (The Columbus Dispatch) - How much do you know about Wall Street history and milestones?
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A Banquet of Delights (Duerrisms for October 2nd) (KHQA Quincy) - Duerrisms Midway Awards for Missouri, Iowa Football. Your Friday Night Game Plan cuts the Mustard. And my new life's goal: being 'canned by Al Davis
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Boost Your Business 2008 (Forbes) - Meet the 20 simi-fianlists in the second annual Forbes.com small business contest. Grand prize: $100,000.
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