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Would you like to sit down and have a cup of coffee with Pastor Greg Laurie?� Where would you like to meet?� No, not your local Starbucks, how about a coffee shop on the shore of the Sea of Galilee?

President Obama promised to lay out a broad package of ideas for job creation next week and slamming Senate Republicans for blocking his small business aid legislation.

Hurricane Earl weakened to a Category 1 storm Friday with winds of 85 mph, but the Northeast was still preparing to feel its fury.

Business hiring is picking up, but not enough to make up for the massive losses of temporary government jobs.

New York Times (blog)
We Three Things | In My Cups
New York Times (blog)
After years of working exclusively in two dimensions, I found myself drawn to the mysterious, nowhere-to-hide realm of the third. ...

European scientists say they've figured out the recipe for water in space: Just add starlight.

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Ahmadi worship place in northwestern Pakistan Friday, killing a pedestrian, police said.

Bomb squad investigators were at Miami International Airport on Friday after a suspicious item was spotted in a baggage screening area, authorities said.

Risk Managers Name FM Global Top Claims Handler
National Underwriter Property And Casualty Insurance News
Risk managers ranked FM Global first in handling claims in a recent Greenwich Associates survey, and FM Global was one of four winners ...

A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug dealers in northeast Mexico left 25 of the suspects dead, the regional military said Thursday.

Watching the Israeli and Palestinian leaders trudge to Washington for one more peace summit, one might wonder why President Obama invited them. Why should the president invest his prestige in an effort that looks so unpromising?

Greenwich Post
Old Greenwich woman builds a second 'house for books' in Rwanda
Greenwich Post
Betsy Dickey has lived in Greenwich for 30 years, raising her family of four, logging countless miles in her Suburban. It's easy to take things for granted ...

Laid-off temporary federal workers, who were brought on to the government payroll by the U.S. Census Bureau to help conduct the 2010 Census, accounted for 43.6 percent of the increase in unemployed people in the United States last month.

BOB HORTON: How will school board respond to sagging district?
Greenwich Time
Data is a word that gets thrown around a lot by Greenwich public school leaders and the Board of Education. There is a strong commitment within the ...

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With the unemployment rate ticking upward, President Obama said on Friday he'd roll out new plans next week to spur the economy.

Clotheslines cut down at Quarry Knoll I senior complex
Greenwich Time
Clothes drying on a drying rack at Quarry Knoll, after the clotheslines were taken down, on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Photo: Helen Neafsey / Greenwich Time ...

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Greenwich Japanese School celebrates its 35th anniversary
Greenwich Time
Japanese School student, Mayu Nakagawa, 7, sings the Japanese National Anthem during the founding celebration of the Japanese School of New York, ...

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'While we have made remarkable progress toward eliminating lead poisoning in children nationwide, now is the time to focus on reaching the finish line,' a HUD official said.

Greenwich braces for Hurricane Earl
Greenwich Time
Bill Biebel, right, a broker at Southpaw Yacht Sales at Palmer Point Marina, left, and Magnus Lejdstrom, the owner of Southpaw Yacht Sales, secure one of ...

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Nabbed fugitive had been charged with counterfeiting
Greenwich Time
The woman who was arrested Tuesday at the Greenwich train station on a federal fugitive warrant had been originally arrested on counterfeiting charges by ...

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