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Georgia Tech Coach Paul Hewitt said Tuesday guard D'Andre Bell has been cleared by doctors to play his senior year of basketball. The 6-foot-5 senior from Los Angeles had surgery in December to correct a congenital condition called spinal stenosis. He sat out the 2008-09 season in order to be eligible in 2009-10 if cleared. Bell was allowed to begin strength and conditioning workouts following the 2008-09 season. We're happy for D'Andre that his doctors have given him clearance to resume...

The Swedish Environmental Court ruled the health effects of church bells should be more closely investigated following a complaint about a Stockholm church. The complaint from Jan Brannstrom, 65, who lives near St. Goran's church in Stockholm, was dismissed by the church council, which said those that live near a church tower should understand that noise from the church bells would be heard inside an apartment, The Local reported Tuesday. Brannstrom complained that the sound of the church's...

Kristen Bell has been cast in the big-screen comedy You Again, which is slated to begin shooting in Los Angeles this summer. Andy Fickman is directing and producing the movie, which was penned by Moe Jelline and is about a young woman who discovers her brother is marrying the person who tortured her in high school, The Hollywood Reporter said. Bell will soon be seen in When in Rome and Couples Retreat. She is best known for her work on the TV series Veronica Mars and in the movie Forgetting...

Officials at England's Liverpool Cathedral Friday said the church's bells will play the late John Lennon's Imagine for the North West's Futuresonic festival. The Liverpool Daily Post quoted cathedral leaders as saying they took into consideration the song's lyrics, Imagine there's no heaven and no religion, too, but also noting they hope the bells performance would inspire those who hear it in May. Lennon, a Liverpool native and former member of The Beatles, once described his signature...

Canada's largest businesses say Bell is best in industry survey MONTREAL, Quebec, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Bell Canada is the company best positioned to provide large Canadian enterprises with managed Information Technology (IT) and communications services, a recent Yankee Group survey has found. The Anywhere Enterprise-Large: 2008 Canadian IT and Managed Service Survey solicited input from representatives of 199 Canadian companies with at least 500 employees. "Large enterprises in...

Bell Canada announced plans Tuesday to trim its workforce by offering early retirement incentives to 1,500 unionized employees. The offer is limited to members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union eligible for retirement in 2009 and 2010, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. This initiative supports Bell's strategic imperative to achieve a competitive cost structure, George Cope, president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. It also thanks many of Bell's...

MONTREAL, Quebec, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Bell Canada announced today it will offer a retirement incentive to approximately 1,500 qualifying employees represented by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers' Union of Canada. "This initiative supports Bell's strategic imperative to achieve a competitive cost structure," said George Cope, President and CEO of BCE and Bell Canada. "It also thanks many of Bell's longest-serving team members for their service by allowing them to take...

An Illinois couple who said they enjoyed hanging out at Taco Bell decided to marry there. It's appropriate. It's an off-beat relationship and we figured that would be off-beat, said Paul Brooks, 30, a professional videographer from Normal, Ill. Friday night, Brooks wed Caragh Brooks, 21, an Australian artist and writer he met through an Internet dating service more than a year ago, The Pantagraph in Bloomington, Ill., reported Sunday. The couple shared the same last name before marriage but...

U.S. rapper 50 Cent should have said no, instead of filing a lawsuit, if he didn't want to appear in a Taco Bell ad campaign, the U.S. fast-food chain says. Taco Bell invited the hip-hop artist via an open letter last June to appear in its ad campaign in exchange for a $10,000 donation to his favorite charity. However, 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, filed a $4 million trademark infringement lawsuit in federal court in New York, claiming the restaurant franchise used his name...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 30, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bell Microproducts Inc. (Pink Sheets:BELM), one of the world's largest value-added distributors of leading-edge network storage technology, today announced the appointment of Peter G. Hanelt, CPA to its board of directors. Hanelt's appointment brings the number of directors to nine. Hanelt, 63, has participated on numerous boards in addition to operating a consultancy focused on improving operating performance for companies across a variety...