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CURRENT affairs host Naomi Robson shared a shopping expedition and dinner with former US president Bill Clinton during the statesman's Melbourne stopover this week. Robson was invited to join Mr Clinton at Taxi restaurant in Federation Square on Wednesday. They were introduced through a mutual friend. The former president revealed he was a fan of Robson when he warmly greeted the top-rating host. "He came up to me and said, 'Hi, I have been watching you on TV'," Robson said of their introduction. "And I said, 'Hi, I have been watching you on TV today, too'. "He said, 'You had...

Re-focus Halloween! If your school insists on having some kind of Halloween celebration, recommend that they steer away from the ghoulish and occult and, instead, focus on the event as a fall festival. ... "When you turn evil into a game, it trivializes it and numbs children to its darkness." (excerpt from email) GREAT RESOURCE SITE for Teachers, Parents & Students.

MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO, Calif. (August 19, 2005) -- Marines swapped nurses and hospital food for Hooters girls and hot wings Saturday during a trip that got 29 recovering warriors out of their hospital rooms and back to sampling normal life. Patients from Navy hospitals in San Diego and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., caravanned to Pasadena, Calif., where they were the guests of honor at a Hooters restaurant and the nearby Ice House Comedy Club. America's Heroes of Freedom, a private veterans support organization, bought the comedy tickets and the pre-show feast for the Marines and...