Pasadena Star-News - In Pasadena, the city has placed on the February ballot an extension of its 60-year-old Utility Users Tax with updated language aimed at taxing phone calls made over the Internet (one company doing this is called Vonage, which has about 2.5 million

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Baseline - He had bought a Vonage phone about a week before, intending to use it at home. Vonage provides a VOIP service aimed at consumers who want to make cheaper long distance calls over a high-speed phone or cable Internet connection. The phone itself

Egypt Today - Send the kids off to play billiards or foosball so you can enjoy the warm breeze as you sip a drink seaside. Or just go lounge on that enticingly comfortable big hotel bed (just don t tell anyone that you traveled to paradise and wasted an
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International Herald Tribune - President Nicholas Sarkozy, who is visiting Egypt, spoke by phone on Sunday with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and expressed “the solidarity and the friendship of France and the French people toward the Pakistani people, who are once again
Source: www.iht.com

Olympic National Park rangers searching for lost skier
Seattle Post Intelligencer - OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — Olympic National Park rangers are searching for a Port Townsend man who got lost while cross-country skiing in cold, snowy conditions. Randy Kraxberger used a cell phone to call his wife Saturday afternoon from the
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What lies beneath
Observer - Laura grew up in New York, but she was raised by southerners, so she has that gentility and courtesy that often comes with a southern upbringing,’ Maupin tells me over the phone. ‘We had that in common, and it means that sometimes we bury our
Source: observer.guardian.co.uk