Messe BERLIN Appoints Business WIRE As Official Int'l Media Partner (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News)
(Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2005--Exhibitors at Messe Berlin can now utilize Business Wire, the global leader in news dissemination, to distribute their trade show news, photos and multimedia to relevant consumer, business and trade media, online news services, databases and the investment community worldwide. These two companies, both
Commentary: Ratings shock may end procrastination in Philippines (International Herald Tribune)
By slashing the Philippines' sovereign debt rating two levels in a single move, Moody's Investors Service has dealt a huge blow to bondholders who expected the downgrade to be only half as severe.
Culturally, Berlin Is Ascending, if Slowly (New York Times)
BERLIN, Feb. 16 - It was easy for culture to be overlooked amid the heady events after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yet once the city was reunited and was again the capital of a single Germany, culture took on new importance here.
Imperial Mafia, Bushspeak, neocons and hypocrisy (Online Journal)
Adobe Acrobat Reader required. Click here to download a free copy. "What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?"
Well Hung at Dawn (Rolling Stone)
8:01 p.m.: Let's get retarded! Your ofay writers must confess: amidst all the hubbub about Black Eyed Peas cleaning up -- or should we say, dumbing down -- their song into "Let's Get It Started," we didn't fully grok "retarded" as a long-accepted slang word. Which reminds us: The Documentary ?
Stockpatrol: Concorde America - Gotcha! (Stock Patrol)
Before you Invest, Investigateâ„¢ ... Concorde America - Gotcha! Remember Concorde America (Pink Sheets: CNDD), the company that was supposedly going to solve Europe's worker shortage? See Concorde America, Inc. - Never Mind. The press releases touting Concorde America raised a host of red flags.
People in the news (Pioneer Press)
(KRT) - Eighties pop music sensation Debbie "Shake Your Love" Gibson says she's still hotter than longtime rival Tiffany. And skeptics need only eyeball the March issue of Playboy to see why.
Business News Americas - Daily business news from Latin America (Business News Americas)
Empresa Propietaria de la Red (EPR), the company developing the Central American power interconnection project (Siepac), has pre-qualified 12 companies for a US$320mn turnkey contract to build the 230kV, 1,830km Siepac interconnection line, according to Siepac information.
COVER STORY (Anchorage Press)
How can we know if Maggie, the Alaska Zoo's sole elephant, is happy? If we say we want her sent away, aren't we saying that we know what will make her happy, that we know what's best for her? And isn't that how she ended up in the zoo to begin with?
Happenings (Times Herald)
Variety show, silent celebrity auction and AIDs quilt display will be presented by North Pen School District students as part of an annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit, 7 to 9:30 p.m. at North Penn High School, Valley Forge Road, Lansdale. Donation: $5 per ticket minimum.