Annual Colorado endurance run, The Bolder Boulder, took place in a 10-kilometer road race in Boulder today. More than 50,000 participants joined the Bolder Boulder 2010 on the morning of May 31 to honor our military in a classic Memorial Day celebration. The race started at the north end of 30th Street near Glenwood Drive [...]
Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado issued an updated statement Monday that the government plans to go ahead with labor reform even if Spanish unions and business leaders fail to reach an agreement on the subject by a Monday evening deadline. “Have no doubt that if these talks don’t produce the results we all want, the [...]
Countless studies have proven that obesity increases the risk of Type 2 Diabetes heart disease as well as other illnesses, but a surprising new finding suggests that it may not affect a person’s health until after the age of 40. The recent study compared medications taken by normal weight, overweight as well as obese Americans [...]
Memorial Day 2010 is rapidly approaching on Monday, a US federal holiday always celebrated on the last Monday of May. Previously known as Decoration Day as it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. The scope and meaning of Memorial Day came to fruition in order to honor soldiers of [...]
Dennis Hopper, legendary screen actor and Hollywood rebel, has died at the age of 74. Hopper was best known for his role in the epoch-defining late 1960s film Easy Rider, although he also starred in Francis Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam saga Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet and his premier role in Sam Peckinpah’s cinema classic, To [...]
European Union leaders will touch down in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don ahead of next week’s EU-Russia summit. Admittedly, their immigration experience is likely to be significantly different than that of the average tourist visiting Russia. White stone international terminal in this South Russian city typically greets visitors with signs saying “welcome to Rostov-on-Don” [...]
UFC fighter Rampage Jackson soon to take to the big screen as B.A. Baracus in the film version of “The A-Team” but first, he has a different fool to pity in the cage. Although Jackson’s movie career may possibly take off next month, he isn’t merely practicing lines when he discusses his unfriendly rivalry with [...]
AAA reports that travel is apparently up nationwide this Memorial Day weekend, for the first time in five years. Nationally, 32.1 million people will travel this holiday weekend, a 5 percent increase since 2009. Commenting on Colorado travel, AAA said one in 10 people in Colorado will travel by car. Some of the 135,000 estimated [...]
Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary, is urging a coordinated approach for dealing with global financial reforms and states Europe must act quickly and forcefully to reassure markets that the euro crisis will not spread. Treasury chief Timothy Geithner is discussing European measures in an attempt to stabilize the failing euro currency in a gesture to [...]
Two men involved in private contract efforts to clean the recent gulf oil spill remained hospitalized Thursday evening after reportedly becoming sick while working in the waters of Breton Sound, according to local hospital officials. The U.S. Coast Guard called a total of 125 boats involved in oil cleanup operations back to port after seven [...]
