Foster

Arthur not interested in Foster fight

Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

WBO Super-featherweight champion Alex Arthur says a public challenge by his former title challenger from Salford, Steve Foster, is pointless.

Life After Foster Care

In These Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Shantaye Wonzer can't really remember being anything but a foster kid. In the past 18 years, she's moved more than 15 times, been abandoned by her adoptive parents and lived in two group homes. Yet this September, on her 21st birthday, she says her life will become even more difficult. Wonzer will no longer be a ward of the state, and will have to forfeit all services and support that she has until...

When Foster Children Become Pregnant

Gotham Gazette: New York City News (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

What happens when children in care have children of their own?

Foster given GB flag-bearing duty

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Swimmer Mark Foster will carry the Olympic flag for Britain at the opening ceremony.

Flag-bearer Foster 'blown away'

This is Bath (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

University of Bath swimmer Mark Foster said he is honoured to be asked to be Great Britain's flag- bearer at the Opening Ceremony to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games tomorrow (8pm local time). The 38-year-old 50m freestyler is about to compete ...

UPDATE 1-Foster Wheeler profit climbs, CEO to retire

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

NEW YORK, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Engineering and construction company Foster Wheeler Ltd posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Wednesday, but said its power plant business in North America was slowing.

Chris O'Brien: Five steps to foster innovation in newsrooms

Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | yesterday

MediaShift Idea Lab The Mercury News business reporter on how to promote innovation: Make it a priority; create a process; foster new collaboration; offer incentives; then evaluate and learn.

Foster Wheeler second-quarter profit climbs

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foster Wheeler Ltd said on Wednesday that second-quarter earnings rose on strong results from both its engineering and power groups.

Foster Wheeler to seek successor as CEO plans to step down

Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Raymond Milchovich plans to retire as chairman and chief executive of Foster Wheeler Ltd. next year, after his successor is elected and a successful transition has been completed, the engineering and construction company said. Milchovich has served in the company's top two posts for nearly seven years. Foster Wheeler said executive-search firm Heidrick & Struggles...

• Foster Wheeler Chairman and CEO Announces Retirement Plans - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• Foster Wheeler Chairman and CEO Announces Retirement Plans - Business Wire

Statement on Jeff Wood by Lawrence Foster, Grandfather of Kenneth Foster, Jr.

Texas Moratorium Network (Free subscription) | yesterday

The following statement by Kenneth Foster's grandfather, Lawrence Foster, was read at the Save Jeff Wood rally in San Antonio on August 2, 2008. I really would like to be with you today and show my support for Jeff Wood and his family. Unfortunately I had a commitment to take one of Kenneth’s friends from France to the prison to visit him this weekend, so I cannot be there. Jeff’s case...

Mark Foster Named Flagbearer for Great Britain

Swimming World Magazine News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

BEIJING, China, August 7. MARK Foster said he is honored to be asked to be Great Britain's flagbearer at the Opening Ceremony to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The 38-year-old is about to compete ...

• Beijing Olympics: Mark Foster to carry British flag at opening ceremony - The Telegraph
• Hoy loses out to swimmer Foster in Olympic flag carrier stakes - Scotsman.com
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Foster's honour at flying the flag

Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago

Mark Foster admits it is a 'phenomenal honour' to be Britain's Olympic flag-bearer.

Mark Foster will carry British flag during Beijing opening ceremony

thisislondon (Free subscription) | yesterday

Mark Foster will mark his fifth Olympic Games by carrying the British flag during the opening ceremony in Beijing on Friday. Foster, 38, who will compete in the 50m freestyle, was chosen from a poll of all the British competitors.

Foster Wheeler's quarterly net profit more than doubles

Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Foster Wheeler Ltd. reported second-quarter net income of $160.8 million, or $1.11 a share, up from $71.9 million, 50 cents, earned in the same period last year. Excluding a net asbestos-related gain, the global engineering and construction contractor and supplier of power equipment would have shown a profit of $142.5 million, or 98 cents a share, for the latest...

Olympics: Ex-Cardiff swimmer Foster to fly the flag

icWales (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago

VETERAN swimmer Mark Foster has been nominated to carry the British flag into tomorrow’s Olympic Games opening ceremony – just months after coming out of retirement.

• Veteran honoured to be GB flag-bearer at his fifth Games - Scotsman.com