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BloggingBaby.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Filed under: Kids 8-11 , Divorce & custody , Weird but true There has been much discussion here about unusual baby names. From Superman to Metallica , we've covered them all. Today, I bring you yet another one: Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. Other than her parents, I can't believe anyone would think that a suitable name for a child. A judge in New Plymouth, New Zealand clearly disapproves . He...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
All six crew members aboard a B-52 bomber that crashed off Guam were killed, the Air Force said.
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The Pacific Business News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
"High-impact" firms create Hawaii's new jobs and growth, according to a study from the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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The Pacific Business News (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The Maui Electric Co. and the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative are among the top power-producting solar electric systems in the country, according to a report released Thursday by the Solar Electric Power Association. (HE)
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YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The nation's leading voice for the national parks, the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), today released an assessment that reveals Hawaii Volcanoes National Park's natural features and cultural sites are in fair to poor condition. The park has among the highest number of threatened and endangered plants and animals in the National Park System, largely due to non-native species,...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
State Has 1,410 of These Important Firms
WASHINGTON, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "High-impact" firms
create Hawaii's new jobs and growth, according to a study recently released
by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Distributed across all industries, high-impact firms account for almost all
employment and revenue growth in the national economy, the study concludes.
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NewsLite (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A New Zealand court has ruled a nine-year-old girl should be allowed to change her name from 'Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.' The young girl had told people her name was "K" because she was "mocked and teased," her lawyer told the court during a custody dispute. She was made a ward of the court until her name could be formally changed and the custody dispute settled. Family Court Judge Rob Murfitt...
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Matt Davies (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
There are some corkers in this news story - amusing to read, though I might not be so amused if I'd been called Number 16 Bus Shelter.
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Diggers Realm (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
(Honolulu) I would wager a paycheck that they didn't swim 2,500 miles to sneak into Hawaii. Federal officials said they netted 43 illegal aliens in an immigration raid on O'ahu. U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Officers executed search warrants over...
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Disappeared News (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
by Larry Geller It’s not just the Advertiser, which recently announced a round of layoffs. Something like 6,000 journalists nationwide have lost their jobs, and overseas bureaus have been shuttered. Print papers are fleeing to rushing to the web as their business model falters. Property advertising has deserted them, followed by employment ad revenue. The cost of newsprint (and shipping it to
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Wellington - A New Zealand judge has slammed parents who called their child Talua Does the Hula from Hawaii and ordered she be given a more suitable name, a newspaper reported on Thursday. It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social d...
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HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
[Ed Note: Alex Salkever is the editor and founder of Hawaiirama , a Hawaii travel blog.] Hotels in Aloha Land have long been perennial placeholders on Travel + Leisure's annual World's Best Awards . Rinse, repeat in 2008 but hold the coconut, surfer boy. Things may not be as glossy as they seem: several Hawaii hotels returning to the uber list actually declined in rankings. The Four Seasons Resort...
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The Pacific Business News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Economic activity on the West Coast and in Hawaii experienced little or no growth during the survey period of June through early July, according to the latest Beige Book issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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lorenaak | 06/28/2008
I found this information at Sea Life Park Hawaii. Parques Reunidos has acquired Kennywood Entertainment in USA with its five Leisure Parks, deeply rooted in tradition among American families.
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icelebz | 05/22/2008
Whitney Houston has been cleared of drug charges in Hawaii. The music icon's charges, stemming from a marijuana-related incident in 2000 have been dropped, reports say. According to TMZ.com, the 44-year-old singer is now completely cleared of the charges. In January of 2000, airport security in Hawaii discovered marijuana in her and then husband Bobby Brown's luggage. She was not arrested at that