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He received a ticket for possession of marijuana," Donald Ezra told the New York Post. ... In a separate development, pop singer Aaron Carter was arrested for investigation of marijuana possession on Thursday after he was pulled over for speeding, according to People.com. Carter, the younger brother of the Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter, was taken into custody in Junction, Texas, and will appear before a magistrate on Friday morning (February 22), Kimble County Sheriff Mike Chapman told the site. Officers found marijuana in the car after pulling Carter over for speeding, the sheriff said, adding that no one else was in the car. ... Foo Fighters have filed suit against Marvel Comics, according to E! Online. The band claims that the creators of Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four pulled big chunks of two of their songs, "Best of You" and "Free Me," to score a trailer for the company's upcoming animated series "Wolverine and the X-Men." The suit seeks unspecified damages from Marvel.
A business wish list for Legislature
Last week, oil prices topped $100 a barrel for the first time, widely seen as a warning sign of rising costs throughout the economy. The latest monthly Arizona Business Conditions Index, produced by Arizona State University, suggests the economy is slowing and a recession is likely in four to six months. In its 45-year history, the index has correctly predicted every recession in the state. With a hike in the minimum wage, a sharp rise in workers' compensation benefits and a law that threatens to revoke licenses for knowingly employing illegal immigrants, all of which took effect Tuesday, many in the business community feel squeezed by the state and are looking for relief in a faltering economy. "We know we're up for a tough year. We went from having a billion-dollar surplus to having a billion-dollar deficit pretty quickly," said Ann Seiden, a spokeswoman for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Vietnam to consume more motorbikes in 2007
HANOI, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam is estimated to consume 2.5 million motorbikes this year, up from 2.2 million units last year, a local industry association said Monday. Foreign-invested motorbike firms in the country, Honda Vietnam, Yamaha Vietnam, Suzuki Vietnam and SYM, recorde d total domestic sales of 174,000 motorbikes in January and 128,000 units in February, posting respective year-on-year rises of 29 percent and 28 percent, according to the latest statistics from the Vietnam Motorbike and Bicycle Association. Vietnam spent 572 million U.S. dollars importing motorbikes, components and spare parts in the first 10 months of this year, up 34.6 percent, according to the country's General Statistics Office. Specifically, it imported 105,000 motorbikes worth 111 million dollars, seeing respective year-on-year surges of 124.2 percent and 87.7 percent.
Ottawa fires nuclear safety commission head
The federal government has fired the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, days after she publicly accused Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn of interfering with the independence of the arm's-length watchdog. The former head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Linda Keen, says she will appear at a parliamentary committee about the reactor closure on Wednesday.(CBC) "The president was aware of the importance of maintaining Canada's and the world's supply of medical isotopes," said the statement from Lunn's office. "However, given the growing crisis, she did not demonstrate the leadership expected of the president under the existing legislative provisions of the Nuclear Safety and Control Act to put the commission in a position to address the situation in a timely fashion." Lunn and Keen have been at odds since the 50-year-old Chalk River nuclear reactor was shut down in November, prompting a worldwide shortage of medical isotopes.
Salmond’s bold new era of progressive nationalism
It was impossible to keep up. In the process, Salmond has created a new form of progressive nationalism, unlike anything seen in Europe in the past three decades. The image of nationalism as a backward and narrow-minded political force, preoccupied with ethnicity and hostile to foreigners, has finally been dispelled. The SNP has made a reverse takeover of the Scottish social democratic consensus that Labour has presided over for the past half-century. Instead of the SNP being blown away by the unionist majority, Labour were almost blown away by the sheer verve of Salmond's hyperactive administration. Labour end this annus horribilis in a terrible state, with a leadership crisis and a donations scandal. The new Labour leader, Wendy Alexander, has failed to offer any intellectual challenge to Alex Salmond's populist nationalism, and the party organisation is disintegrating.
Winthrop author to present his ‘Stories Around a Katahdin Campfire ...
WINTHROP — John Neff, 78, of Winthrop, has hiked and backpacked the Mount Katahdin region for 45 years and climbed the 5,267-foot peak 30 or 40 times. The past president of the Maine Appalachian Club and a founding member of Friends of Baxter State Park, he still maintains a five-mile section of the Appalachian Trail within Baxter State Park. .
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Aside from the clown that looms large in the story of DI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes), who has been catapulted back to 1981, there's the shadow of Life On Mars to escape. Job done, I'd say. For despite being more of a caper than its predecessor, and its occasional moments of smugness and lurches into self-parody, Ashes to Ashes is better than Life on Mars - and not just because of when it's set. The series' big mystery is more compelling, while Drake's desire to return to the present is more heartrending than was Sam Tyler's. A complete treat. Who Killed the Playboy Earl?
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Had Anthony Ashley-Cooper been born on a different kind of estate - council rather than stately home - the last years of his life, during which he squandered his money on drugs and prostitutes, would likely be viewed as feckless.
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