More responsibility falls on parents when finances tighten for schoolsBut family expectations, interest can provide incentive to learn Sep 24, 2009
The great circle starts again wrote on Sep 23, 2009 9:03 PM:" Ah, the start of school, and everything is all shiny and new again. As we begin anew, we are strengthened by the resolve of getting in there and taking up the slack for underfunding schools. Surely there will be no more backpacks full of undone work, sacraficed in the great xbox wars against who knows what. At least not until Christmas when you can use those school funding savings to buy a new game to keep them out of your hair.... (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Reflection for the day ™ Sep 1, 2009
The seasons form a great circle. in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. (Boston Globe)
Biologists hope to kill all of Rat Island's rats (9/21/08) Aug 24, 2009
Thousands of ships -- many with rats aboard -- pass through the remote, stormy archipelago each year, transiting the Great Circle shipping route between Asian and U.S. ports. Traffic through Unimak Pass, a 28-mile-long corridor through the Aleutian chain, is roughly double the amount of vessel traffic to all Alaska ports combined, according to a 185-page report published by the Washington, D.C.-based Transportation Research Board, an arm of the National Research Council. (Anchorage Daily News)
Quigley: Medicine Story speaks of community, empathy and responsibility Aug 22, 2009
When we say all my relations we are reminding ourselves that we are related to all that is in creation, to the great circle that is the universe. Medicine Story said the form of the circle is sacred to many Native American relationships. (Beverly Citizen, MA)
Madonna gets animated at the Grammys - but it's U2's night Aug 19, 2009
I have a great circle of friends and two. MORE FROM TELEGRAPH.CO.UK. (Yahoo News -- Grammy Awards)
Riding high at Euclid Beach Aug 7, 2009
The first thing we spotted was the Great American Racing Derby with its huge painted horses whipping around in a great circle with excited riders of every age holding tight to the reins. We passed the Bug, which was nearby and went over to watch the Thriller, the highest roller coaster in the park. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Family visiting from the United Kingdom Aug 1, 2009
We have built up a great circle of friends, but unfortunately, none of them have a 16-year-old daughter or granddaughter whom we could introduce to my niece. We have a lot of things planned for their visit and do not know as yet just how much time they shall actually spend here in Lodi. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Great Circle Emerges from Chapter 11; Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is Alive, Well and Expanding Again in Southern California Jul 21, 2009
LOS ANGELES, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Circle Family Foods, LLC (the "Company" or "Great Circle"), the franchisee of Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation in Southern California, announced today that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California has confirmed its Second Amended Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization (the "Plan"). In conjunction with the Plan, Great Circle has ... "This is an exciting day for everyone associated with Great Circle," commented Roger Glickman,... (PR Newswire)
By starlight, a two-hour hunt for a nesting turtle Jun 28, 2009
She will be long gone and doing laps around Bermuda, or the Azores, or the Cape Verde Islands, anywhere in the great circle of ocean currents that leads back here to the Caribbean. Chris Ladd can be reached at. (Boston Globe)
Ask the pilot Jun 26, 2009
Or create your own great circle routes, using one of my favorite online sites, the. The BBC also came up with in response to last week's Continental Airlines incident in which the captain of a Brussels-to-Newark flight passed away during cruise. (Salon)
When all we need is a listener May 31, 2009
"At the same time, like all psychiatric residents, I was filled with troubles of my own, and eventually, decided to see a psychiatrist myself. In our business, this is part of the great circle of life. Fifteen minutes into the first meeting, I knew that this doctor would not be able to help me. Her questions were too simple, her expression was too even; nothing she said penetrated to my secret core. To be ruthlessly honest (as trainees always think they must), she did not strike me as all that... (Boston Globe)
Lionel: No rush for pregnant Nicole to wed May 29, 2009
And I just have a really great circle around me who support me no matter what, don't judge me no matter how low I've ever gotten. King: How did you deal with it, Lionel. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Vets recall sacrifices seen May 24, 2009
" When his unit arrived in the Aleutians in early May 1943, temperatures were in the 30s and winds exceeded 30 mph. Many believed, and still do, the Aleutians were a major strategic point in the war against Japan. Shipping and transportation through the Pacific Great Circle were critical. Also, the Aleutians would have given Japan a perfect site from which to launch attacks on the United States' West Coast. In 1942, the Japanese had gained possession of Attu, the Aleutians' farthest island to... (The Clarion-Ledger)
ASCHBURNER:King James needs help May 23, 2009
And in what became the great Circle of Strife, the other Cavs responded to that with more standing and watching. It was a formula for success on par with Henry Jekyll's or New Coke's. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Alaska to get nearly $850,000 to settle Selendang Ayu claims Apr 28, 2009
"This settlement sends a strong message to international shipping companies of the tremendous costs associated with marine casualties in our waters and the need for them to undertake immediate actions to improve shipping safety on the Great Circle Route which transits through the waters of the Aleutian Islands," Svobodny said. The state is pursuing separate natural resource damage claims which are not covered in the settlement. (Anchorage Daily News)
IMC Shipping to pay Alaska over oil-spill case Apr 28, 2009
About 3,600 large cargo ships traverse through the Aleutian Islands each year along the Great Circle route, according to the Coast Guard. Environmentalists and fishermen are seeking greater cargo-ship regulation in the region, which contains ecologically sensitive areas and important commercial fishing grounds. (Scientific American)
Triumph of a long-distance biker Apr 8, 2009
In 2006, the pair pedaled what O'Brien calls The Great Circle Tour, from Minneapolis through Wisconsin and on to both peninsulas of Michigan - his 37th state - then looping to northern Minnesota and back down to Minneapolis. The next year, a specially designed trip added brought O'Brien eight states closer to his goal. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Hall, Haynesworth Define Risk/Reward Feb 28, 2009
Last year, the two ends, and any blitzing linebackers or defensive backs, had to take the Great Circle route to get to the opposing quarterbacks. Offenses were able to fan out their protection because of the lack of any sort of pass rush threat coming from up the middle. (WarpathInsiders.com)
