LOS ANGELES, Aug.

By Tam Cowan JUST about choked on my pint of Newton & Ridley's the other night when I heard one TV presenter, ahead of tonight's British Soap Awards, praising Coronation Street for its "gritty realism".

By Jan Falstad, Billings Gazette, Mont. Dec. 2--HELP WANTED....PLEASE: Hiring was hard last winter in Yellowstone County, but since summer Billings UPS Store owner Rick Williams said, "It's just gone bonkers." Williams has been trying for weeks to hire holiday help for his store at 1302 24th St.

A NOBEL prize is the ultimate accolade. At a time

HOUSTON, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, September 15, 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners gathered in Denver, Colorado to voice their desire for the building of education and peace in impoverished and war-torn areas of the world. This was the largest-ever gathering of Nobel Laureates on US soil.