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- First-timers join hunt for bargains on Black Friday
- Retailers see early signs holiday shopping's going well
- Cell phones get folded into classes
- Bringing in the green
- Silver Taps set to honor two Aggies
- Anderson inn gets into holiday spirit
- Radio M*A*S*H to start collecting toys
- Police: Woods' wife helped after accident
- High-tech food banks
- Atlantis crew marks safe return home
- Food stamp data sparks debate
- Insuring young key to health care plans
- Divorce rate in military edges up again
- U.S., China to cut emissions
- Fears ease as investors digest Dubai news
- Government delays ban on Internet gambling
- Sagal enjoys role as motorcycle mama
- At 96, bluesman won't stop
- 5th Terrell soldier mourned
- Religion notes
- Letters for November 28
- Calendar
- Christian church, Native American tribe reconcile
- No decisions in high court's horn of plenty
- FAA transcripts show efforts to reach Flight 188
| First-timers join hunt for bargains on Black Friday Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:08 PM PST Dan Liu knew before he moved to College Station that Americans like to shop on the day after Thanksgiving. But the Texas A&M civil engineering graduate student from Taiwan had no idea that the tradition was its own type of holiday, Black Friday.T ... |
| Retailers see early signs holiday shopping's going well Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:06 PM PST The nation's shoppers took advantage of deals on toys and TVs with some renewed vigor in stores and online on Black Friday after a year of concentrating their spending on basic necessities.Though the first numbers won't be available until Saturday, e ... |
| Cell phones get folded into classes Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:06 PM PST WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. -- Ariana Leonard's high school students shuffled in their seats, eagerly awaiting a cue from their Spanish teacher that the assignment would begin."Take out your cell phones," she said in Spanish.The teens pulled out an array of ... |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:08 PM PST College Station Lions Club member A.C. Vinzant unwraps Christmas trees at the group's tree lot on Texas Avenue on Friday. The lot is open on weekends from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on weekdays from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Proceeds from sales go to charities suc ... |
| Silver Taps set to honor two Aggies Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:08 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportA Silver Taps ceremony next week will honor two Texas A&M students who died recently.The campus will be darkened at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday while family, friends and students gather in silence on the Academic Plaza.The ceremony will ... |
| Anderson inn gets into holiday spirit Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:08 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportFanthorp Inn State Historic Site in Anderson will kick off the holidays Saturday with its annual Twilight-Firelight celebration.The event will include dulcimer music, caroling, living history demonstrations and a cowboy poet. The gr ... |
| Radio M*A*S*H to start collecting toys Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:08 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportNew and gently used toys, as well as cash donations, will be collected next week during an annual toy drive known as Radio M*A*S*H.The Make a Smile Happen toy drive is hosted by Brazos Valley Communications radio stations, and a col ... |
| Police: Woods' wife helped after accident Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:06 PM PST Tiger Woods was injured early Friday when he lost control of his SUV outside his Florida mansion, and a local police chief said Woods' wife used a golf club to smash out the back window to help get him out.The world's No. 1 golfer was treated and rel ... |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:07 PM PST SEATTLE -- Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking devices, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies thei ... |
| Atlantis crew marks safe return home Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:07 PM PST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth with a smooth touchdown Friday to end an "amazing" flight that resupplied the International Space Station.Within a few hours of landing, the astronauts feasted ... |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:06 PM PST CHICAGO -- The estimate was startling and made headlines around the country: Almost half of all U.S. kids will be on food stamps at some time during childhood.How could it be true in the land of plenty, in the midst of an obesity epidemic, skeptics w ... |
| Insuring young key to health care plans Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:06 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The young invincibles. That's what the insurance industry calls them.They're the 13.7 million Americans under 30 who don't have health insurance because, they firmly believe, they just don't need it. Why waste money on something they're ... |
| Divorce rate in military edges up again Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The toll for a nation long at war is evident in military homes: The divorce rate in the armed forces edged up again in the past year despite many programs to help struggling couples, and the rate now is a full percentage point higher th ... |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:07 PM PST AMSTERDAM -- Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming. ... |
| Fears ease as investors digest Dubai news Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:06 PM PST NEW YORK -- Dubai's debt crisis rattled world financial markets Friday, raising concerns that some banks could further tighten lending and stall the global economic recovery.The possible spillover effects centered on fears that international banks co ... |
| Government delays ban on Internet gambling Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON --The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.The two agencies said Friday that the new rules, which were to t ... |
| Sagal enjoys role as motorcycle mama Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:06 PM PST NEW YORK -- Season two of the FX drama Sons of Anarchy is primed to end with bloody payback. The Sons, a fierce and fiercely close-knit motorcycle club, are set to wreak havoc on enemy forces that have cut into their outlaw livelihood and horned in o ... |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:07 PM PST CLARKSDALE, Miss. -- Noisy crowds in smoky bars don't bother 96-year-old bluesman Pinetop Perkins.It's all part of his job. Most nights, after he snuffs out his menthol cigarette, Perkins slides onto the piano bench in some club and eases into a wail ... |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:07 PM PST By BRANDON FORMBYThe Dallas Morning NewsTERRELL -- As the sobering news spread this week that one of their own died at war, residents of Terrell knew immediately that they would soon gather along flag-lined downtown streets for a procession.Just as t ... |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:08 PM PST Sunday* First United Methodist Church, 506 E. 28th St. in Bryan, will celebrate the First Sunday of Advent with performances from the Sanctuary Choir, orchestra and soloists. The first candle of the Advent wreath will be lit. Sunday School classes me ... |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST Edwards won't pay a political price for voteAlas, Chet Edwards is no profile in political courage, bucking the immense power of Washington to vote the interests of his constituents (to no avail). Rather, the dissembling Pelosi sycophant postponed his ... |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:08 PM PST MARK YOUR CALENDARSThe Christmas Favorites Holiday Concert is set for 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at First Presbyterian Church, 1100 Carter Creek Parkway in Bryan. The concert is presented by the Brazos Valley Chorale and the Brazos Valley Chorale Chamber to b ... |
| Christian church, Native American tribe reconcile Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:06 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) -- Members of one of America's oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday -- for the first time -- for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago."We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and disreg ... |
| No decisions in high court's horn of plenty Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the first time under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court failed to issue opinions before Thanksgiving in any of the cases that were argued in recent months.The court operates under no deadlines, but usually produces a ... |
| FAA transcripts show efforts to reach Flight 188 Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:04 PM PST After a Northwest Airlines plane flew past Minneapolis last month, air traffic controllers asked the pilots repeatedly for explanations about why they didn't heed radio calls, according to transcripts released on Friday.The Oct. 21 flight had been ou ... |
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