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IRAQ TOTALS - 4,353 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 93,795 to 102,330 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to October 30. American servicemen and servicewomen killed October 19 to 27: -- Maj. David L. Audo, 35, Saint
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This week's calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted Students against racism The Princeton Prize in Race Relations was created to recognize the efforts of high-school students who have demonstrated a commitment to improving race relations. The top prize
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This year's election may have been quiet, but next year, when we elect state legislators and a governor, there should be some fireworks. Will it do any good for us to go to the polls? Obviously, we need change. New York, as a recent New York Times editorial put it, "is
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White, Cruz, and Elliott win School Board seats The fight for three seats on the Rochester School Board did, as expected, come down to three candidates: incumbents Van Henri White and Cynthia Elliott, and newcomer Jose Cruz. All three are winners tonight.While there were no upsets, getting
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Research out of the University of Rochester Medical Center yesterday cautions against the use of common over-the-counter pain relievers just before and right after receiving the seasonal flu shot, since the pain relievers "may blunt the effect of the shot," according to a written statement from URMC. Richard Phipps, professor
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Those fine folks at the Federal Reserve are telling us that the recession, depression, or whatever you want to call it, is over. But everywhere you go these days people are talking about doing more with less, about economizing, about minimizing waste. Chefs and foodies are waxing lyrical about cheap
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Kit Miller has been named director of the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. She is the organization's third director, and replaces Arun Gandhi, grandson of Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi. | Miller was formerly the director of Oakland, California-based Bay Area Nonviolent Communication, which she grew from a staff of
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City Council member Lovely Warren says that she fully supports letting the fire department use vacant houses for training. She just wants to know, she says, that the monument to their training won't be left standing ad infinitum. "I don't have a problem with them tearing a hole in the roof
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Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy confirms what many have long suspected: the city and the county are in talks to possibly merge water systems. "There are a number of issues that I think we have to work out," he says. "Like anything, nothing happens quickly, but we've been talking for some time
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When thinking about cheesecake, visions of the famous New York style of the dessert dance into my head. Thick, luxurious slices with some type of fruit topping - ruby red cherries, or perhaps flavorful blueberries. While I wanted to sample some classically styled cheesecakes, I also wanted to
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Subsidized child care can be a saving grace for low-income families. The funding lets parents work, and it allows children to get quality care that will help nurture their development. But there's a catch. Each family has to make an out-of-pocket co-pay to the child-care provider - a fee that's determined
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We don't need another conversation about race, says Joy Leary-DeGruy. We don't need another study, and we don't need another sentimental "We Are the World" moment. What we need, she says, is an honest conversation about race and we need to change. "If we don't do it, I'm telling you right
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My name is Dayna, and I am a cookbook addict. Of course, lugging several hundred of them to my new home recently left me wishing I had chosen to obsess over something lighter, like toucan feathers or cotton balls shaped like Glenn Danzig. But anything that makes it easier to
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No one can deny the allure of a quick energy fix. And we don't just want a small dose of it - we search for a heart-racing, mind-pumping, mega-indulgent pick-me-up. Whatever has you reaching for that energy boost throughout the day, know that you don't have to rely on a
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I could happily eat Indian food every day for the rest of my life, but recently indulging my passion for curry either involved hunting for parking on Clinton Ave or fighting the swirl of suburban traffic in Henrietta to get my fix. When I heard that a new Indian place
Choice Concerts
Walk into any beer joint on a Saturday night and you're sure to find a rock ‘n' roll cover band. They seem to be the mainstay of many palliative pouring places that might otherwise go out of business if it weren't for those weekend riots. What keeps us coming back
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We've gotten so caught up in hit-single culture that focus has been taken off the album, the LP, as a whole body of work. Whether or not there's an intentional musical theme or lyrical narrative by an artist on any given record, that's how it's listened to - front
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Veteran jazz group Cabo Frio has been on the scene since the late 70's, right about that time when the introduction of the funky, rock-enthused, R&B style of jazz fusion was coming to the fore. The group has recorded eight albums and shared the bill in national festivals with Miles
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This week the RPO will play host to an up-and-coming classical music superstar. Haochen Zhang, joint gold medalist of the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will join the orchestra for a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Not only was Zhang the 2009 competition's youngest participant, winning the
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Pianist Ted Perry has a served as a sideman with Kenny Burrell, Ernie Watts, and Nick Brignola, but he'll be heading his own group Thursday evening at an unlikely venue, the Academy of Medicine. Aside from original compositions, Perry will put his own spin on some classics, with new
