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NEWS ABOUT: Burlington, Vermont

Burlington, Vermont stories: 4 news summaries

 Playboy 
 Snowboards 
 Arouse Debate 
 in Vermont 


Some see sexism in Playboy line; others demand free speech

Jan 5, 09 12:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Racy snowboards have created a snowball of protests in liberal Vermont, the Boston Globe reports, where manufacturer Burton makes a Playboy line plastered with giant images of naked women. While some in Burlington say free speech guarantees their right to ride what they want, others worry about the effect of... More »

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Vermont • Burlington, Vermont • Playboy • snowboarding • freedom of speech • nude • Burton snowboards

 Healthiest US City Gets Moving 

Burlington, Vt., tops list due to active citizens; Huntington, W.Va., is unhealthiest

Nov 17, 08 2:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Burlington, Vt., is America's healthiest city, with 92% of residents reporting that they're in good or great health. A number of factors account for the gap between Burlington and Huntington, W.Va., which brought up the rear in the CDC's healthy-city rankings, the AP reports. Burlington's residents are younger on... More »

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obesity • health • diabetes • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • obesity epidemic • diet • fast food • poverty • Burlington, Vermont • economy • Huntington West Virginia • Lake Champlain • health food

Missing Vermont Girl Found Dead

12-year-old's uncle accused of forcing
her, and another girl,
into sex ring

Jul 3, 08 7:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vermont authorities found the body of a missing 12-year-old girl in a fresh grave yesterday, CNN reports. Brooke Bennett’s death “appears to be foul play,” said police, who arrested her uncle and stepfather on separate sexual assault charges. Bennett’s uncle, Michael Jacques, initiated her into a... More »

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child molestation • missing child • child pornography • Burlington, Vermont • sexual assault

US Should Tune In to Al Jazeera

English-language network affords a close-up view of our own loss of influence 

Nov 12, 07 9:56 PM CST
(Newser) - Year-old Al Jazeera English is only in a handful of US markets—a fact that “amounts to self-destructive blindness,” says the Times’ Roger Cohen. By not watching the channel Donald Rumsfeld called “vicious, inaccurate, and inexcusable,” we damage our chances in the war of ideas—because... More »

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Donald Rumsfeld • Al Jazeera • Toledo, Ohio • Burlington, Vermont • war of ideas

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