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Where: Poway High School and Mount Carmel High School

When: 7:30 a.m. to 11:50 a.m., Mondays through Fridays, June 18 to Aug. 1

Cost: Free. Students earn two semesters of foreign language credit.

Info: Open to all Poway Unified students who will be in grades eight, nine, 10 or 11 in the fall.

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On Wednesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is scheduled to rise in the House of Commons and finally issue a national apology to him and thousands of other stolen children.

But for Michael Cachagee, president of the National Residential School Survivors' Society, there is very little that can be said to ever make up for the loss of his childhood.

"It is going to be a very emotiona...

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: Dubai hotels are to be set an ambitious target of reducing their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by as much as 20% by the end of 2011, in a voluntary environmental scheme revealed today (9 June 2008).

Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) along with leading facilities management company Farnek Avireal, unveiled the DTCM Environmental Awareness Program at The Hotel ...

In an interview over Catholic-run Radio Veritas 846, Rosales said the Church is still sticking only to the union between two acknowledged genders: male and female.

"God’s plan is to really have only two genders: male and female. No matter what we do, it is clear that this (same- sex marriage) is not the will of the Lord," he said.

Rosales said even if some countries have a...

Instead, her music is a refreshing reminder that at its best, music has the power to bridge our differences and inspire listeners the world over. Chantal writes and performs a vibrant style of alluring, danceable pop music that has been a hit on dance floors and pop charts internationally including the song "You Want Me" which went to No 4 on the UK Dance Charts. Said London's Evening Standard...

NEW YORK (AP) — Retail gas prices rose further above a national average of $4 Monday, and are likely to keep rising as distributors and retailers hike prices in response to last week's unprecedented oil price rally.

Oil futures, meanwhile, retreated after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he wouldn't rule out intervention to stabilize the dollar — boosting the greenbac...

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By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer • Published June 09, 2008

President Bush's former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.

McClellan will testify publicly and under oath before the Hous...

Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin said the Ethio-South Sudan relation would further be strengthened in areas of Education, transport and capacity, among others.

He made the remark on Saturday while addressing the Ethio-South Sudan consultation forum held here in Addis Ababa.

Seyoum said South Sudan Ethiopian neighboring regions have common culture and values.

Ensuring p...

This may prove to be the first taser duel ever recorded.

So what is the right thing to do when someone impugns your honor? Ignore them, assert yourself? Sue them? Taser them? Although the Good Book says we should turn the other cheek, our family's unofficial rule was to hit them back 10 times harder. Just how far would you go to protect your reputation and sense of honor?

A few yea...

: Here at the offices of Eth!cal PR, deep in the heart of London's fashionable Gospel Oak, texting is definitely the new rock'n'roll.

"WT U WNT 4 LNCH?" my lovely, lovely personal assistant, Sally, texts me from our shared desk every lunchtime. "4 LNCH I WNT BLD X" is what I generally text back. To those of you who haven't mastered the art of texting yet, that means: "For lunch I want...

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