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I am not sure when my next entry will be, maybe tomorrow, maybe not for a while. This is my last week here and then I am off to Guyana on the 2nd of June. If you feel like writing, you can reach me at:
Scott StadumPeace Corps.PO Box 101192Georgetown, GuyanaSouth America
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What a Cool Idea - BookCrossing.com
You’ve come to a friendly place, and we welcome you to our book-lovers’ community. What is BookCrossing, you ask? It’s a global book club that crosses time and space. It’s a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. Do you like free books? How about free book clubs?. Well, the [...]

Uday is Thinking of Surrendering
NEW YORK — Saddam Hussein’s eldest son, Uday, is considering surrendering to U.S. forces, but so far has been reluctant to do so because of a tough negotiating posture by the U.S. government, a third party with knowledge of the discussions told The Wall Street Journal.
U.S. officials in Washington had [...]

LeBron James Inks 90 Million with Nike Deal
AKRON, Ohio - LeBron James went to school Thursday with enough lunch money for everyone.The hyped high school senior and expected No. 1 pick in next month’s NBA draft, signed a multiyear endorsement deal with Nike worth over $90 million, a risky move by the shoe and sports [...]

Puretunes Playing for Pay Without Permission
A new pay-for-play music Web site launched Tuesday, with a full array of hits and catalog — but no signed deals with record labels.
Madrid-based Puretunes is similar to Apple’s iTunes Music Store, without the authorization. At $3.99 for all the songs you can download in eight hours, you get to [...]

Rebels Humiliate GlaxoSmithKline
Shareholder activists scored an extraordinary victory against spiralling executive pay yesterday, voting down a plan by GlaxoSmithKline, Britain’s biggest drug manufacturer, to give chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier £22m if he were to lose his job. Almost 51% of shareholders who voted rejected GSK’s remuneration report at yesterday’s acrimonious annual general meeting at [...]

‘Star Wars Kid’ Gets Bucks From Blogs
A couple of webloggers are raising money for an unfortunate teenager humiliated worldwide after a private video of his energetic lightsaber moves was leaked to the Net. Webloggers Andy Baio and Jish Mukerji launched a fundraiser Friday for the young man they call the “Star Wars Kid,” whose [...]

High School Prank, Car Parked in Hallway
McCook High School senior Mandy King parks herself atop fellow senior Tyler Bieck’s car, which seemed to materialize overnight in the hallway outside the office at MHS.The front window displays the sun shield message, “Need Help Please Call Police,” and the back window sports a handwritten message, “Ha! We [...]