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1980: Raspberry Flummery (New York Times)
A recipe for a delicate fruit stew, which ran in The Times in 1980, came from Nancy and Robert Charles, a Connecticut couple.

Summer symposium brings musical talent to Braden stage (The Pantagraph)
Four summers ago, eccentric banjo man Bela Fleck brought himself and his three Flecktones to the stage of the annual Music for All (formerly Bands of America) Symposium at Illinois State University.

Remembering, celebrating and fighting cancer (Park Hills Daily Journal)
It?s spelled ?luminaria.? It?s pronounced ?loo-muh-NAIR-ee-uh? or ?loo-mee-NAH-ryha.? Webster?s Dictionary defines it as a Christmas lantern with a lighted candle set in sand inside a paper bag. This time of year, luminaria in the Parkland don?t light the way to a holiday season. They light the way to a cure.

REGION: Latino organizations' names raise controversy (North County Times)
For some Latino groups that emerged from the civil rights era, a name is more than just a name.

HEY THERE, SAILOR (Santa Fe Reporter)
There?s probably some fancy name for a pesky condition plenty of people have to put up with, but we?ll just call it word aversion for now. You know. It?s about a word you want purged from the dictionary, for awhile anyway. Like ?hopefully? or ?awesome.?

For the fridge (San Diego Union-Tribune)
There are tons of baby-name books out there for those choosing a name for a newborn. But if you would like to know the origin, history and more about your own name, this site ? the Concise Dictionary of First Names ? will give you lots of information.

Where they are now: Soviet Jewry series (Cleveland Jewish News)
When Anya Leybovich arrived in America from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1979, her toughest adjustment was the language, even as a 3-year-old. ?I refused to speak Russian or English, so I just made up my own language that was a combination of the two,? she recalls.

A Passion For Pesto (CBS News)
Early Show "Chef on a Shoestring" Michela Larson packed a menu with the sauce, on a budget of only $40.

Career & Education (The Jamaica Observer)
FUNCTIONING in a classroom without doors or windows is to become a thing of the past for the students and teachers of St Teckle Haimanot Basic School in Bull Bay, St Andrew, thanks to the intervention of corporate Jamaica.

The best at Sarawak music fest (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - Sarawak, Malaysia is lovelier the 11th time around for music enthusiasts from all over the globe as they converged at the foot of mystical Mt. Santubong in Sarawak Cultural Village for the annual Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF).

 

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