Dam-Dis

Low-key finish but sales chief remains upbeat; Ryan McElligott reports from the Tattersalls Ireland November Breeders' Flat Sale.(Sports)(Financial report)
The Racing Post (London, England); 11/16/2009; 894 words; ...EUR5,800. She is a daughter of dual Listed-winning mare Dis Moi Tout. Martin Cullinane, who picked up several of the most...000 for Darley's Lugana Beach mare Kissing Time. Already the dam of two winners and sold in foal to Kheleyf, Kissing Time is...

Frankfurt book fair's controversial guest of honor: China.(WORLD)(Frankfurt, Germany)
The Christian Science Monitor; 10/17/2009; 1227 words; ...Dai was officially invited to the book fair, but then was dis-invited her after the Chinese government protested. In the...activist banned for her book on the effect of the Three Gorges Dam, Dai spent 10 months in prison after the Tiananmen Square demonstrations...

So just how green was red Rhodri? In the wake of Rhodri Morgan's decision to step down as First Minister at the end of the year, the director of Friends of the Earth Cymru, Gordon James below, assesses his environmental record: the friday essay.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 10/16/2009; 1406 words; ...that he should have compared the Severn Barrage project with the Three Gorges Dam in China, a prime example of human rights violations and disregard for wildlife...presided over welcome developments in environmental policy but with a few major dis

PICK OF THE DAY.(Features)
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Shortfall of troops, funds puts UN mission in Chad, CAR in quagmire
Xinhua News Agency; 7/28/2009; 774 words; ...Detachement Integre de Securite (DIS), will run out of funds by...another year of operating the DIS would cost 17.3 million U...dollars. Since October 2008, the DIS has arrested more than 90 people...confrontation on May 7 close to Am Dam, forcing rebels to retreat...