Gorgon workers 'exposed to asbestos'
Brisbane Times
Tests confirm that workers were exposed to asbestos when the deadly material was being cleared from the Gorgon gas project area on Barrow Island, unions say.
Barrow had a warm and snowy 2009
Denver Post
BARROW, Alaska—The northernmost city in the United States had a warm and snowy 2009. The Arctic Sounder newspaper reports that Barrow had 60.2 inches of snow last year, making it the sixth snowiest on record. Six of the 10 snowiest years in...
Barrow researcher reports that slow breathing reduces pain
Genetic Engineering News
Research performed by a scientist at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has shown that controlled breathing at a slowed rate can significantly reduce feelings of pain. Chronic pain sufferers, specifica...
Knifemen sought over Barrow shop robbery
BBC UK News
The pair targeted the Battys Drinks Discount store on Brighton Street, Barrow-in-Furness, on Thursday evening. They threatened the female assistant, who was alone at the time, with kitchen knives, before leaving with an undisclosed amount o...
Huddersfield players free to play on bail during rape inquiry
The Guardian
Huddersfield play Barrow on Sunday and Castleford two days later, and the club confirmed tonight that the players involved would be available for selection. Huddersfield's first game of the Super League season is at home to Bradford on Fri...
Barrow too strong for Workington Town in friendly game
News and Star
Barrow 50 Workington Town 18: Workington Town’s former Barrow boys gave a good account of themselves as they went down 50-18 to the Championship Grand Final winners at Craven Park. James Finch touches down Brett Carter, James Finch and Lee ...
North Stars Errol Barrow Day celebrations to raise funds for Haiti
Barbados Advocate
North Stars will celebrate this year’s Errol Barrow Day (January 21, 2010) with its annual “Young Members” vs the “Not So Young Members” cricket match at the club ground. The match starts at 12:00 noon. This year’s match will recognise ...
Rich Nations Call for Haiti Debt Relief
New York Times
Greg Barrow, a spokesman for the World Food Program , said the agency — an arm of the United Nations — wanted “a formal system in place” to ensure security arrangements for the distribution of food from four “hubs” in Port-au-Prince, the .....
Errol Barrow – The greatest of them all
Barbados Advocate
I must admit that I am an Errol Barrow Bajan. I grew up in Barbados under Errol Barrow’s Democratic Socialist Revolution. He impacted my life to the extent that I wanted to be a politician. I became a member of the Young Democrats, and got ...
Investigation was ‘inept’ - former Barrow dentist
North-West Evening Mail
INVESTIGATIONS into a dentist who gave a nervous schoolgirl temazepam and then failed to monitor her were “inappropriate and inept,” a hearing was told yesterday.
Barrow employee grievances to be aired
Athens Banner-Herald
As county employees and critics of the Barrow County government lodge complaints that a 2009 restructuring left the county government's management less diverse, commission Chairman Danny Yearwood has called a meeting for officials to air ou...
Biologist: Texas 'chupacabra' a hairless raccoon
McClatchy
It was a raccoon, no doubt about it," said Jennifer Barrow, the biologist. "It's feet were a real giveaway. It had long toes, narrow feet ... everything right for a raccoon."
The Weather Channel Journeys to Extraordinary Weather Locales in New ...
Earthtimes
Barrow, Alaska: On Top of the World" -- airs Feb. 21 at 10 p.m. ET When this pilot first premiered in 2008, it demonstrated a 23 percent average increase over lead-in while introducing viewers to Barrow, Alaska's residents and their way of ...
