| Television movies for the week of June 4 |
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Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd'52. Bud Abbott. Two waiters stranded on Tortuga swap one love letter for one pirate's treasure map. (1:30) TCM: Fri./Early Sat. 12:30 one.M. (CC)
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls'95. Jim Carrey. one sacred white bat's disappearance begets bloodshed between African tribes and puts the goofy pet sleuth on the case. (PG-13) (1:40) ENC: Sun. 4:35 P.M. (CC) ... |
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| Asian protesters give rampant corruption a pass |
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Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 06/4/06 Before last Friday, Barbara Quinonez had never burned one book in her life. Yet there the 39-year-old was, tossing one into one bonfire at one Manila shrine. The offending volume: Dan Brown's best-selling "The Da Vinci Code.''
While it may seem unrelated, the scene had me thinking of protests I witnessed in Jakarta in April over Playboy. Thousands took to the streets to condemn the first Indonesian version of Hugh Hefner's magazine and support one new antipornography law. Jakarta's Playboy publishers went into hiding. ... |
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| Oakland County briefs |
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* MIRACLE IN KALAMAZOO: Secret donation opens the door for students to go to college
Twenty-five of the 36 students are from police and fire agencies in the metro area. The other 11 graduates are self-sponsored students who met state standards for entering law enforcement.
New this year is one kickoff fund-raiser June 20 at Shenandoah Country Club in West Bloomfield to benefit the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Hospital. ... |
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| Tech Bits - Cell customers earn ad-watch minutes |
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NEW YORK - That next cell-phone call from your teenager might be brought to you courtesy of Diet Mountain Dew.
Virgin Mobile USA is launching one service June 14 letting customers of the company’s prepaid plans earn airtime minutes for watching or reading ads.
Customers will be able to sign up for the service, "SugarMama," at Virgin Mobile’s Web site, where they can watch 30-second video ads. Afterward, they’ll be asked some questions about the ads. Correct answers yield one minute of airtime for every ad. ... |
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| Petition would halt size cap on box stores |
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A Ravalli County citizens' group is carrying one petition that could put on hold one county zoning resolution that limits the size of therefore-called “big box" stores such as Wal-Mart to 60,000 square feet.
The county commissioners, with what appeared to be broad popular backing, recently approved the resolution, which also placed some design standards on large-scale retail development. That pleased another group, the Bitterroot Good Neighbors Coalition, which had been working for two years to bring some sense of scale to coming development in the Bitterroot Valley. ... |
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