A not so young, local and foreign educated business person, said that in Lanka old fashioned capitalist and old socialist ideas and unnecessary nationalism prevailed.

With all the attention the North Iowa Fair Association has received in the past couple of weeks, its members might relate to the story Abraham Lincoln told about the man who was tarred and feathered and dragged out of town on a rail.

New York's canal system is closing for the winter Saturday, following a season that saw a sharp decline in traffic. So far this year, recreational, commercial and tour vessels have passed through canal locks 113,368 times. That's down 21.7 percent from

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER BEIJING - Clouds of dust swirl inside the empty grounds of the Beijing Coking & Chemical Plant on the city's eastern edge. Where trains once hauled boxcars of coal for furnaces, now tall weeds grow between the tracks.

Vancouver, BC, July 16, 2008--(T-Net)--Carmanah Technologies Corporation, has partnered with ENCOM Wireless Data Solutions Inc. to add a wireless interface capability to its line of stand-alone solar-powered traffic beacons.