Car With 2 Boys Possibly Found In River Nov 8, 2008
When they first struck it, a child's drinking cup floated to the surface, he said. MMVIII, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. (CBS News)
Wick waterer keeps plants hydrated Oct 30, 2008
Put a plastic drinking cup next to a plant. Measure a length of braided quarter-inch diameter nylon cord that will reach from the bottom of the cup to the soil surface in the center of the pot. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
ALCATRAZ-GARDENS Sep 9, 2008
"One inmate had to protect his prize narcissuses, because other prisoners would sacrifice their drinking cup to bring flowers into their cells," she said. Volunteers have logged more than 6,000 hours in the garden. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Gardens on Alcatraz Island blooming again Sep 3, 2008
"One inmate had to protect his prize narcissuses, because other prisoners would sacrifice their drinking cup to bring flowers into their cells," she said. The response by visitors to the restored gardens has been overwhelming, with docent-led, and self-guided tours becoming more and more popular. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Gone, but not forgotten Jul 7, 2008
My brother grabbed Dennis Johnson's plastic drinking cup. The best souvenir, ever. (AZCentral -- Sports)
Pretty in pink Jun 27, 2008
She even pinked up the superintendent's personal bathroom, draping the toilet with pink crepe paper and supplying both pink pump soap and a pink drinking cup. Burchfield was a good sport, donning one of the pink foam rubber crowns Henderson left for him and otherwise making himself right at home. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Which restaurants are best for kids? Jun 17, 2008
Agave - They have a kids menu and special drinking cup for kids, they have a patio, kid friendly service, their margaritas are top notch as is their food. CA Pizza Kitchen - Casual, kids menu, special kids cup, crayons, good pizzas and their servers are kid friendly. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Make pretty, small balls Jun 3, 2008
Disposable drinking cups ... Coat each ball with six layers of papier mache before setting in a disposable drinking cup to dry. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
In the Himalayas, an isolated Sherpa village offers a cosmopolitan touch May 11, 2008
One sits around the yak dung stove, drinking cup after cup of tea. Room charges are as little as $3 a night. (Anchorage Daily News)
Mars lander's chem lab is NASA's MECA Feb 28, 2008
The wet-chemistry mini lab has four single-use beakers, each the size of a small drinking cup and lined with selectively permeable membranes or gels and their electrodes. These will assess various factors about the soil, such as pH and concentration of dissolved oxygen, chlorides, bromides and other salts and minerals. (EETimes)
Easy French Easter Craft for Kids Feb 27, 2008
If you are using a regular paper or Styrofoam drinking cup, you can just slip it through the slit that was meant for the straw. If you are using a yogurt lid, you will need to poke a hole with the scissors. (Suite101.com)
A Taste of Honey Feb 27, 2008
s blogger goes by the nickname , and the topics covered on the blog include questions from readers trying to figure out what the historically correct drinking cup is. Fans like these won't boost mead into the 21st century. (Slate)
The Country Curmudgeon: Unhappy days Feb 22, 2008
Former King McBubba had no answer, but merely stared gloomily into his drinking cup. He reflected once again how this was a marriage made in hell he was powerless to escape. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
Boom In Safe High-End Baby Products Feb 16, 2008
Safe Sippy Perfect for your toddler, The Safe Sippy stainless steel drinking cup is a non-leaching stainless steel cup that is plastic free (and free from other harmful chemicals) and they topped it with a plastic straw free from Bisphenol A, phthalates and DEHA and a cap made out of Polypropylene plastic (the most stable of plastics). The water has very little contact with these safe plastics to prevent leaching. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Super Tuesday may be special in North Dakota Feb 3, 2008
One might think it should be a raucous caucus, considering the word for the event is derived from a Greek word for drinking cup. And probably they were spirited (in the sense of ardent spirits), in other times and climes and, who knows, maybe in some places will be Tuesday. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Vase arrives in Rome after tug of war with New York Jan 20, 2008
" (Nostoi is ancient Greek for homecoming.) Fewer than 30 vases by Euphronios, one of the greatest artists of ancient Greece, are known to have survived. The krater returned by the Met dates from around 515 B.C. and is considered one of his finest achievements. Italian archaeologists have traced most of the existing Euphronios vases to Cerveteri, known as Caere in Etruscan times, an area of steep slopes and raised tomb chambers. Caere was also "a privileged market for red-figure production, and... (International Herald Tribune)
CostaLiving: Stairway to heaven Jan 10, 2008
I used a metal, child s drinking cup to scoop out the salt from the 5-gallon bucket I use to sow my salt. Think Johnny Appleseed on steroids. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
Benazir Bhutto: A life in letters Dec 29, 2007
He handed me one by one the pitiful items from my father's death cell: my father's shalwar khameez, the long shirt and loose trousers he'd worn to the end, refusing as a political prisoner to wear the uniform of a condemned criminal; the tiffin box for food that he had refused for the last ten days; the roll of bedding they had allowed him only after the broken wired of his cot had lacerated his back; his drinking cup. Where is his ring. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Between the lines: MFA show rethinks the art of drawing Dec 28, 2007
It hangs beside a Greek ceramic drinking cup (510-500 BC) by Athenian vase painter Epiktetos ... Another ceramic piece sent me scurrying back to take a second look at the Greek drinking cup. (Boston Globe)
The Asanthene and Confidence Engineering Nov 14, 2007
Historian Jim Jones The British in West Africa (2004) reports that the British fought the Ashanti in 1826, 1873, 1893-1894 and 1895-1896, and quelled a final uprising in 1900 and that the first Anglo-Ashanti War began in 1823 after the Ashanti defeated a small British force under Sir Charles McCarthy and converted his skull into a drinking cup. Despite various defeats, and loose of over 3000 Asantes deaths, in the years that followed, the Asantes recovered from years of... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
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But Sarah McDonald, the daughter of Tasha and Steven McDonald, knows how to hang onto her drinking cup and candy. A parade, games and a blast blast of summer was on tap at downtown Inman. (McPherson Sentinel, KS)
Meningitis Vaccine Expansion May Go Statewide Sep 26, 2007
" Futterman died at University Community Hospital, two days after she suffered a seizure in the Delta Gamma sorority house on USF's campus. USF officials won't say whether she had been vaccinated against the contagious disease, which inflames the tissues that cover the brain and spinal cord. Her funeral was held Tuesday in Jacksonville. Not All Affected The Same Local health officials and infectious disease experts say they likely will never know who infected her. She could have contracted... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Death Of Student Raises Meningitis Concerns Sep 26, 2007
The disease is contagious and can be spread by sharing a drinking cup or eating utensils and by kissing, coughing and sneezing. It is not transmitted through casual contact, so diners at Gators Dockside, 5840 Fowler Ave., where Futterman worked on Thursday, should not be concerned, said Warren McDougle, epidemiology manager for the Hillsborough County Health Department. (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Mason City man turns ditch into flower garden Sep 21, 2007
MASON CITY Al Herrera dipped a jumbo-sized drinking cup into the ditch, took up some water and poured it over a freshly planted flower. I like to give them a little water to start, then it s up to Mother Nature, he said. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Bus driver strikes 2-year-old Sep 8, 2007
According to police, the child dropped her drinking cup and when she ran back to grab it, she was hit by the bus that had started to move forward. The girl was initially taken to Middlesex Hospital by car. (New Britain Herald, CT)
Where have all the girly women gone? Aug 3, 2007
The kid kept standing up in the booth placing her food and drinking cup on the top of the bench and I asked the lady twice not let her do that, maintaining my calmness. But the woman being preoccupied with whom ever she was talking to on the phone was paying much attention to her child. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
A century of rocking and rolling Jul 13, 2007
Her uncle rushed into the bedroom she shared with her sister, Margaret, and held her as she watched her favorite drinking cup smash to the floor. The quake took 3,000 lives. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
SRC offers summer program at Oak Lawn for kids; various community groups take part to give lessons Jun 23, 2007
Also, a craft project involved making a drinking cup that is friendly to the environment. On Wednesday of this week, children made umbrellas and the Altrusa Club read them a book on "Rain." Also, Canton police officers talked to them about 911 and brought the K-9 dog to demonstrate the various services he provides. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Year of change Jun 21, 2007
In March, 10-year-old Taylor Capps created a ceramic drinking cup as part of a fifth-grade project at El Camino Creek Elementary School in Carlsbad. In the bottom of the cup, she placed two notes one to a close friend of her father's who had been seriously injured in a drag racing test accident and the second to that driver's father. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)
Toddler survives smallpox vaccine reaction May 18, 2007
"Multiple swab samples obtained from the home (e.g., from a bathroom washcloth, a slipper, a toy drum, a night stand, a booster seat, and an ointment container) and from items brought to the child's hospital room (e.g., an infant drinking cup and a car seat) were positive for vaccinia virus DNA," the researchers wrote. They steam-cleaned the home and washed clothing and linens after an acid pre-treatment. (Scientific American)
A rose is but a rose -- tulips are another story May 12, 2007
A silver drinking cup. At that time, the value of the transaction translated to roughly $1,250, according to estimates. (Albany Times Union)
Police: Taxi ride leads to punches and robbery Apr 20, 2007
A Wessels Avenue man was charged April 15 with third-degree robbery and other charges when he allegedly refused to pay a cab fare, punched the taxi driver and another passenger in the face, and stole money from the driver's drinking cup. James Mebane, 45, of 102 Wessels Ave., also was charged with two counts of third-degree assault and one count of sixth-degree larceny. (Bridgeport News, CT)
A dogged imagination Apr 12, 2007
One oval reads as a hole in the ground, the other as the rim of a drinking cup. Above the two images appears the word "Funney" [sic] and below, the word "Strange" with a little bar added to the T so it looks like a cross between an F and a T. Together the two words go to the essence of Wegman's art: Look once and it's funny; look again and it's evocatively odd. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Murderer pins hope on appeal Apr 7, 2007
The jurors apparently were swayed by a state lab report concluding Haughey s DNA was on a plastic drinking cup in the victims kitchen sink and that his DNA could not be eliminated from the dumbbell used to bludgeon Tomasi. But Ullman had reminded jurors there is no way to tell when DNA or thumbprints are left, so Haughey could have left them in the house when he was doing painting there several weeks and months earlier. (New Haven Register, CT)
Severed heads and the outcry they deserve Apr 3, 2007
But the Mahdi's skull -- "large and shapely" as it would be described -- was presented to Kitchener, perhaps as a souvenir drinking cup ... But at least it was not sent to the White House as a souvenir drinking cup. (Boston Globe)
My lederhosen is ringing| Mar 19, 2007
A "thinking" drinking cup monitors the intake of fluids in the course of a day and reminds the patient if she falls short. A refrigerator can keep track of smart radio tags on food packaging and sound the alarm if the expiration date as passed. (iAfrica.com)
'Hiccup' girl cured by multiple remedies Mar 3, 2007
"I don't know how they stopped. I do know I had multiple things I did that day with acupuncture, chiropractor, hypnotism and a Hic-Cup," Jennifer said, referring to a special drinking cup that supposedly directs stimulation to a nerve in the throat that triggers the hiccup reflex. Jennifer's mother, Rachel Robidoux, said she is happy that the condition went away and she hopes it never comes back. (MSNBC -- Health)
Happy ending for 'hiccup girl' Mar 2, 2007
It was my [special drinking cup], a chiropractor, a hypnotist and an acupuncturist, said Jennifer, smiling broadly. Monday, I'm going back to school for sure. (MSNBC -- Health)
Quick Guide and Transcript Feb 26, 2007
Mike Teselle of affiliate KCRA reports on an event whose objective isn't the Stanley Cup or the World Cup, but the drinking cup. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP). (CNN -- Education)
