92nd Tour de France - GT Cyclingnews.com Tue, 19 Jul 2005 8:34 AM PDT Welcome one and all back to Cyclingnews.com's hot air driven coverage of the 92nd Tour de France, which is now entering its final week. | Governor Prefers Zoo to Meeting Opposition St. Petersburg Times Tue, 19 Jul 2005 2:30 AM PDT St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko skipped a pre-arranged meeting with the political opposition to visit the Leningrad zoo and sent instead vice governors, including one that the opposition says should be fired..... | Russia's Worst Competitive Advantage St. Petersburg Times Tue, 19 Jul 2005 2:28 AM PDT For a country that lives off of black gold, we seem to have little problem throwing plenty of it away. However, it is not fair to chalk this up to good old-fashioned Russian slovenliness. A significant portion of the spills is the fault of foreign companies working in Russia. This summer, a rivulet of $60 per-barrel black liquid was discovered next to the Ryazan oil refinery, which belongs to | Bay Sox admirable in first season SEMI-PRO BASEBALL Monterey County Herald Tue, 19 Jul 2005 3:18 AM PDT Roughly two-thirds through their first season, the Monterey Bay Sox find themselves right in the thick of things in the California Collegiate League. After hitting their stride midway through the season with a six-game winning streak, the Bay Sox have settled to a respectable 16-14-1 record. | Packaging firm fined £16k for accident The Business EDP 24 Tue, 19 Jul 2005 1:33 AM PDT A packaging company was yesterday fined £16,000 following an accident in which an employee suffered serious burns after trapping his hand in a machine. | Aspen Springs opponents have their say Missoulian Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:57 PM PDT FLORENCE - When residents of the lower Eight Mile drainage look into the low hills north of their homes, they like what they see: open hillsides, covered in gray-green sage and the occasional wildflower, rising slowly to the higher, timbered-covered slopes. | New blood Guardian Unlimited Mon, 18 Jul 2005 5:58 PM PDT Weekend of bombings leads to redoubling of calls to pull foreign troops out of Iraq. | Magazines gamble on poker's popularity Miami Herald Tue, 19 Jul 2005 1:10 AM PDT Bluff magazine routinely reveals a world at the top of the poker craze that few get to see -- millionaire card sharks who spend fortunes with abandon, $1,000 chips used as coasters and players that fly like rock stars from one glitzy casino to the next. | | |
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