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This story was published in the May, 2001 edition of VeloNews magazine.  Of all the spring classics, the Amstel Gold Race ranks as the proverbial redheaded stepchild. And that’s not just because of the tens of thousands of rabid Dutch fans dressed head to toe in orange, their national color. The 36-year-old Amstel Gold Race doesn’t boast the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix or the tradition that comes with the age of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Nor does it have the excitement of sunny season-opener Mi...

IOM organises Study Visit to Sudan on Civil Registry and Identity Management Format Khartoum - A delegation from South Sudan’s Civil Registry Directorate in the Ministry of Interior will today kick-off a five-day study visit to Khartoum to learn about Civil Registry and Identity Management from their Sudanese counterparts. The visit is intended to provide an opportunity for members of the Civil Registry’s Technical Working Group (TWG) to enhance their knowledge on the operational aspect of ...

Whats inside the shop The store opened on Black Friday, this past Thanksgiving, and features products from candles, clothing, glassware to chocolates. The shop prides itself on New Bedford being the “city that lit the world” and is located only a block and a half away from the historic Rodman Candleworks Building. In response, the store offers candles made in Massachusetts — all hand-dipped, poured and dripless. “When I went to the Cape as a kid, and we got saltwater taffy on Cape Cod, ...

The Government hopes that Australians will holiday their way out of the COVID-19 economic downturn. Peter Van Onselen joins RN Breakfast to discuss the latest developments in federal politics.

CBS News S.C. nurse who fatally poisoned husband with eye drops: "I just wanted him to suffer" Lana Clayton says she didnt mean to kill her millionaire husband when she poured a lethal dose of an over-the-counter eye medication into his drinking water. 2021 Mar 13 Lana Clayton said she found her husband Steve Clayton dead at the bottom of a staircase in their South Carolina home. The businessman, who created physical therapy clinics, had been married to his w...

March 13, 2021 By Peter Van BUREN We know what keeps America safe at night — rough men on the walls stand ready to visit violence on those who would do us harm, duh. But what about Canada? Or say, Cambodia or Bolivia? This is by way of trying to figure out why Joe Biden bombed Syria and derailed the resumption of the Iran nuclear accord, and why he has called off, delayed, or stalled further withdrawals from the places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria along the bloody trail of the old Gl...

Date Time Digital detective work tracks travels of Gregor Mendel Gregor Mendel’s place in history is secure as the father of genetics but otherwise relatively little is known of the Augustinian friar from Brno (now in the Czech Republic.) When the work of Mendel (1822-1884) was rediscovered, it was 16 years after his death and his notes and letters were long gone. His work became familiar to generations of students via the textbook descriptions of his crossing experiments with the garden pea....

The rape allegation that's now been emphatically denied by Attorney-General Christian Porter has become a full blown political crisis for the Morrison Government. Peter Van Onselen joins RN Breakfast to discuss the latest developments in federal politics.

Despite growing evidence that exposure to and engagement with disinformation narrowly defined on the basis of identified problematic domains is a very small part of most people’s media use, concentrated among partisans actively seeking it out, and often primarily consumed by people who consume far more news from established outlets, survey research suggests very widespread concern over disinformation, especially online.  One survey conducted in 2020 asked respondents across 40 media markets ...

Peter Van Onselen joins RN Breakfast to discuss the latest developments in federal politics.