Dognappers spark deadly violence across Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — It was already too late when Nguyen Van Cuong heard a neighbor shout "Thief! Thief!" Two men on a motorbike had snatched up his beloved pet dog "Black" and were whizzing away.

Cuong and the neighbor sprinted in vain as the professional dog thieves hurled bricks, one of them slamming into the head of a bystander and killing him.

Similar fights have erupted across Vietnam between dognappers who sell man's best friend to restaurants and fed-up villagers who have increasingly turned to vigilante justice to pursue culprits because there is little police can do. Mobs have chased down thieves and clubbed them to death — even setting one on fire. But the bandits …

Heavenly Pope's 127 leaves Frome without a prayer

Street Frome 260-4 beat Frome 169 all out by 91 runs

Street entertained Frome at the Victoria Field hoping to hit back strongly after last week's hammering on the road at the handsof Uphill Castle.

On winning the toss, Street's skipper had no hesitation inbatting first, with the track hard and no assistance being offeredoverhead.

The early exchanges were dominated by extras, with no balls andwides dominating some fine shots being played by Jeremy Linter untilhe fatefully chased a wide one and was caught for 11.

At 27-1 off eight overs, the visitors would have felt pleasedbut, unfortunately, Matt Pope was in destructive mood and, afterbeing given the …

3 wounded in 3rd blast rocking Ramadi.

ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: A third car bomb in the province of al-Anbar on Sunday left three people wounded within an initial count of casualties, a local police source said.

"A car bomb went off on Sunday near al-Ramadi hospital, in the northern part of the city, leaving three persons wounded," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Earlier on Sunday (Oct. 11), a security source said five people were killed and 22 others wounded when two car bombs ripped through a parking lot near the provincial council building in central al-Ramadi city.

"The blasts left five people, including three Civil Defense personnel, killed and 22 others -- 10 civilians and …

FOREIGN SCHOLARS DO IMPROVE UNIVERSITY.(MAIN)

Byline: SUE R. FAERMAN University at Albany The writer is dean of Undergraduate Studies and professor of Public Administration ies and professor of Public Administration. -

Alan Wechsler's March 14 article ``When words collide in class'' is a piece that should have stopped at the headline, ``Some UAlbany students say they have trouble understanding foreign instructors.''

Any university that has strong graduate and research programs and a large undergraduate population enlists the teaching and research assistance of its graduate students. This includes such universities as Harvard, MIT and Stanford. At those same universities, highly selected international …

Art Professor Finds 'Priceless' Artifact in Turkey.

Byline: Earlham College

RICHMOND, Ind., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- It turns out the 500-year-old Ottoman Empire coin that Earlham College art history professor Julia May found during her May term course in Turkey this year isn't worth very much. Even when it was minted during the reign of Emperor Beyazid II (1481-1512), the small copper disk was roughly the equivalent of its modern day U.S. counterpart: a penny. But to May, the experience of finding the coin was priceless.

"It's definitely one of the highlights of my career as an art historian," says May, who discovered the coin during a visit to the ancient Roman ruins of Pergamum (or Pergamon), near the current Turkish city of Bergama. Perched on a hillside, the site is best known for its dramatically pitched outdoor theater constructed in the 3rd century B.C.E. with seating for up …

Israeli schools under fire as underperforming

JERUSALEM (AP) — About one-quarter of Israel's first graders study in ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools that give short shrift to subjects like reading, science and math. Another quarter study in underfunded classes in the Arab sector. Israeli high school students rank below average among developed countries on international tests.

A growing chorus of critics is warning that this is a toxic educational mix that will compromise Israel's ability to continue generating dazzling technology, an enviably long list of Nobel laureates and an economy that has outperformed key Western markets for years.

"A generation is growing up in Israel that does not know how to count," cautioned Daniel …

Georgia-Pacific Group reports first-quarter loss.(Brief Article)

Georgia-Pacific Group in April reported first-quarter losses of $137 million.

The company claimed a slow market for wood products and costs associated with closing its Bellingham pulp mill and chemical plant as main reasons for the loss. The loss includes an $82 million charge associated with the Bellingham plant closure, which the company stated was because of high costs and the energy …