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Is Amazon looking to take on Siri with takeover of Yap?

2011-11-09 21:36:28

<![CDATA[Is Amazon looking to take on Siri with takeover of Yap?]]>

Amazon to produce 5 million Kindle Fire tablets this year, report says

2011-11-10 21:36:46

<![CDATA[Amazon to produce 5 million Kindle Fire tablets this year, report says]]>

Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet to allow Hulu Plus TV streaming

2011-11-11 16:36:05

<![CDATA[Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet to allow Hulu Plus TV streaming]]>

Yap.TV brings 'Tweetainment' to the living room

2011-08-10 16:36:43

<![CDATA[Yap.TV brings 'Tweetainment' to the living room]]>

Robert Gumbiner dies at 85; HMO pioneer founded Museum of Latin American Art

2009-01-23 00:00:00

Robert Gumbiner, a physician and HMO pioneer who built the managed-care giant FHP and then used his fortune to found the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, has died. He was 85. Gumbiner died of prostate cancer Tuesday at his Long Beach home,...

Dancing cheek to cheek in Yap

2007-04-15 00:00:00

YOUR SCENE editor's choice YOUR SCENE editor's choice There are moments in nature that are so fleeting that few are privileged to witness them. Jeff Smith of San Pedro had one such sighting in January when he watched the mating dance of mandarin...

One Door Opens, Another Closes

2006-02-19 00:00:00

Tens of thousands of children travel alone from Central America and Mexico each year, many of them seeking the mothers who went to the U.S. before them. The epic journey many of these children make is part of a vast migration of women and children who are...

Malaysia's oil, gas acquisitions expected to rise

2013-05-15 01:44:02

PETALING JAYA (The Star/ANN) -- Malaysia's oil and gas (O&G) acquisitions are expected to total between 10 billion ringgit (US$3.3 billion) and 15 billion ringgit this year, as players look to acquire expertise and reserves out of their horizon to ride...

Down Under comes to Lebanon Valley

2013-04-24 01:04:02

Two members of Australia's Life Without Barriers program are on a week-long tour of Youth Advocate Programs in the United States and, on Tuesday, the third day of their trip brought them to Lebanon County's YAP. "We are interested in seeing if YAP can...

There are alternatives to locking up juvenile offenders

2012-06-03 06:00:00

Department of Juvenile Services Secretary Sam Abed is rightly concerned about youngsters languishing in overcrowded detention, sometimes for weeks or months on end. But spending money to expand privately run residential programs is not his only option....

City schools scaling back summer programs, citing lack of federal cash

2012-06-13 22:05:00

With money tight,Chicago Public Schools'summer Safe Haven program will be scaled back and serve fewer students. Last year, the district used $975,000 in federal stimulus funds for Safe Haven, which encompassed 100 churches working with 5,000 students...

Young people are an untapped resource

2012-03-20 05:15:00

William S. Reese's excellent op-ed ("A welcome focus on global youth," March 9) about the Global Youth Jobs Alliance speaks to the powerful role young people can play when public policy leaders reserve a place for them at the policymaking table. This...

Don Evans, left, and Vicent Tafileluw, representing the Pacific island nation of Yap, straighten up their booth. Why travel to Yap? For the diving, both said.

2013-02-22 00:00:00

, Yap, Yap. Really, interior quality? There is nothing wrong with the CR-V's quality. I was so happy to get in the CX-5 and Escape to solidify my thinking that in terms of practicality, space and cargo room, and height, the CR-V demolishes the other two.

2011-11-22 00:00:00

Woman in canoe near Walung Village, Walung, Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia.

2011-11-19 18:32:52