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The county's policy for naming arenas and other facilities for individuals says the person should have made an exceptional contribution of direct service to the community, presumably meaning the community in which the facility is located. But Commissioner Jan Wiessner said the policy is meant to be a guideline, rather than a rule. Schulz, she said, provided time and service to the world community.
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At the beginning of World War II, corpsmen and Army medics wore red crosses on their uniforms. That stopped when the enemy began using the crosses as targets, knowing that the servicemen would do anything to save their medics. These days, the corpsmen wear the Marines' digital camouflage while in combat zones and carry full weaponry.
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With the sheer quantity of reviews for Moulin Rouge being printed all around the world, it's impossible and impractical to start posting all of them here. Of course I'll post the better ones that I find or are brought to my attention but I'll only post parts of them (since many basically repeat the same things) and as usual I'll post the link so you can read the complete review if you so desire.
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The Walt Disney Co.'s Touchstone Pictures will screen 40 minutes of Michael Bay's "Armageddon" at a special sidebar screening for exhibitors and select international press at the Cannes International Film Festival next month. The event will include a lavish bash billed as "The Last Blowout, End of the World 'Armageddon' Party" to support the big-budget summer release about a team of astronauts sent to destroy an enormous asteroid hurtling toward Earth. "Armageddon" actors Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi and Liv Tyler are expected to attend, along with Bay.
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PARIS, Jun. 26, PRNewswire -- The results of a study on a nutritional supplement expressly formulated for female sexual health (ArginMax(R) for Women) will be presented at the 15th Annual World Congress of Sexology in Paris, France on June 28. The study reports significant improvement in women's sexual desire and overall satisfaction, according to the co-author, Mary Lake Polan, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department Of Gynecology/Obstetrics, Stanford University School of Medicine. The study results were published as an abstract in the May/June issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine.
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Tim Berners Lee is the first winner of the world’s largest technology award, a prize of $1.23 million awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation for inventing the simple protocols that created the powerful world wide web. Definitely well deserved. The fact that he never commercialized his invention but rather made it a public good — with the huge adoption rates that followed — guarantees him a place as one of the innovators with the greatest impact in the history of the world. The web has completed changed the world.
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