Refugees from TerrorFriday, September 5, 2008 @ 3:20AMToe Toe Po unbuttons his khakis. He unzips his fly and peels his donated pants down to his knees. He is 58 years old, just over 5 feet tall and his reedy, caramel-colored body is lean and muscled. He twists just slightly, revealing an apple-sized cavity in the belly of his hamstring. The wound is old, puckered, purple and deep. Twenty years ago, a bullet tore through here, lacerating his flesh, ...
A few weeks ago we showed the Palace Roller Rink at the foot of E. Court Street (on Steuben). From Chester Williams' ...Thursday, September 4, 2008 @ 11:45AMNumbered bell signals signified all skate, ladies, couples, gents, reverse skate and others. In the 1940s, we went to Utica to roller skate but later on Romans once again had local rinks. I'm not sure, but this building may have later been Zugner's Garage, which burned in the early '40s.
Longest cataract wait time in the provinceThursday, September 4, 2008 @ 11:37AM-Better communication and a more efficient use of existing resources are ways in which the Champlain Local Health Integrated Network is trying to deal with wait times for medical procedures. With the lineup for cataract surgery the longest in the entire province -people can be left waiting for [...]
Only in the Inverness CourierThursday, September 4, 2008 @ 7:56AMTHE health authority in the Highlands only achieved 36 per cent of its targets for sending patients home the same day after surgery, according to a report issued by Audit Scotland today.
Mohammed’s initiative brings hope to the blind and visually impairedThursday, September 4, 2008 @ 3:56AMDUBAI - His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid AL Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai on September 3 launched a new Ramadan initiative, under the name 'Noor Dubai'...