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calendars stories: 9 news summaries

Think Tank Taps Bachmann as 'Miss November'

Conservative group's calendar also features Prejean, Coulter

Sep 29, 09 5:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - A conservative think tank's calendar of "Great American Conservative Women" features a relative newbie: Michele Bachmann. The Minnesota lawmaker, who was elected to Congress in 2006, appears in the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute's calendar as "Miss November." The calendar also features Carrie Prejean, Michelle Malkin, and... More »

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Republican • women • calendars • conservative • House of Representatives • Minnesota • Michele Bachmann • Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute

 Mormon Hunks 
 Have Church 
 Up in Arms 

Maker of Mormon calendar excommunicated

Apr 28, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - An entrepreneur who says his aim was to improve the image of Mormons has been excommunicated by the church for publishing a calendar with photos of shirtless members of the faith. The “Men on a Mission” calendar doesn’t “tear down the beliefs of the church at all,... More »

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calendars • religion • excommunication • photograph • Mormon • missionaries • Mormonism • Chad Hardy

 Ryanair Pin-Ups
 Don't Fly With
 Feminist
 Groups 

Company vows to defend a 'girl's' right to take off her clothes

Nov 14, 08 4:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Feminist groups have slammed as sexist a pin-up calendar of stripped-down Ryanair flight attendants the budget airline has published to raise money for charity, reports Der Speigel. The calendar features employees in barely-there bikinis getting up close and personal with airplane parts. The Institute for Women in Spain, where the... More »

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feminism • calendars • Ryanair • charity

 Friend Markets Palin Calendar 

Photo who was deputy to Wasilla mayor delves into album to tap zeitgeist

Oct 31, 08 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - A friend of Sarah Palin’s is cashing in on the mania for the candidate with a calendar, the Los Angeles Times reports. Photographer Judy Patrick, who was also Palin’s deputy mayor in Wasilla, Alaska, snapped Palin playing hockey and holding a shotgun. She gave some photos to the... More »

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Alaska • calendars • mayor • photographers • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Barnes & Noble • Wasilla

Smart Software Programs Write Your To-Do Lists

Schedule events, reminders from text or voice statements

Jun 12, 08 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Busy? A new kind of online organizer works like a personal assistant, interpreting loose statements—like “have brunch with Margaret on Sunday"—and turning them into scheduled events on users’ calendars. Free programs like Presdo, IWantSandy and reQall use natural language processing to organize casually written, and sometimes... More »

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calendars • software • free • personal assistant • Presdo • IWantSandy • reQall

Turkmenistan Dumps Months Named After Heroes, Poets, Dictator's Mom

New leader rolls back

Apr 25, 08 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a step away from the legacy of its late dictator, who renamed each month after heroes, poets, and himself, Turkmenistan’s president urged a return to traditional month names, the Guardian reports. April had been named after Saparmurat Niyazov’s mother, while September was a reference to Niyazov’s... More »

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calendars • dictatorship • Turkmenistan • Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov • Saparmurat Niyazov

Leap Into 2008 Was Miles Early

New year has an extra day to keep calendar and planet synchronized

Jan 2, 08 12:18 PM CST
(Newser) - The Earth finished another rotation around the sun in 2007—just about. At midnight on December 31, it was actually about 400,000 miles short of where it had been a year before, and that annual shortfall is why we have leap years, explains the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Leap... More »

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calendars • Earth • leap year • Gregorian calendar • Pope Gregory XIII • Julian calendar

Supreme Court Gets First-Ever Wall Calendar

Birthdays, key decisions won't go begging for legal eagles in '08

Nov 29, 07 7:35 PM CST
(Newser) - The Supreme Court may not come knocking at your door over the holidays, but the stars of the judicial branch have their very own calendar for sale, the Washingtonian reports. Legal Times court reporter Tony Mauro is to thank for the effort, which will help ensure that law junkies... More »

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg • calendars • Sandra Day O'Connor • US Constitution • US Supreme Court

German Students Do Full Monty  

Nude calendars raise cash for charities, protests

May 9, 07 5:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - German students are capitalizing on their assets—nude calendars, raising money for charities and better conditions on campus, are all the rage. While some of the calendars have a whimsical feel, professional photographers have gotten in on the action, too. But "they work primarily with sports students, who tend... More »

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Germany • calendars • nudity • photography • Deggendorf • student

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