Members of the EIS teaching union are attending a meeting to debate proposed changes to their hours and working conditions.

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Teaching union debates shake-up

Apple’s latest mobile operating system , iOS 5 is now available for download from Apple’s servers, via the latest version of iTunes. On Twitter, Apple fans are reporting download estimates of up to four hours as the company’s servers try to handle customers trying to download iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion upgrades, which enable users to use the iCloud suite of services. Others are reporting problems connecting to iTunes at all. Read full article > >

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iOS 5 goes live, servers creaking

The jury in the Jennifer Cardy murder trial hears that the child’s watch was stopped four hours after her mother had set it on the day she went missing.

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Trial hears child watch evidence

Each weeknight, after the lawyers and financial planners have gone home, Walter Ramirez enters a 1980s-vintage glass office tower in Alexandria to begin his race against the clock. He and eight other cleaners have four hours to do the same amount of vacuuming, trash collection and other janitorial tasks that just a few years ago took 14 people. He would happily work more hours if he could, he said; as a part-timer, he is paid $9 an hour and has scant health-care benefits. Read full article > >

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Each weeknight, after the lawyers and financial planners have gone home, Walter Ramirez enters a 1980s-vintage glass office tower in Alexandria to begin his race against the clock. He and eight other cleaners have four hours to do the same amount of vacuuming, trash collection and other janitorial tasks that just a few years ago took 14 people. He would happily work more hours if he could, he said; as a part-timer, he is paid $9 an hour and has scant health-care benefits. Read full article > >

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ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. — President Barack Obama was joined by former President Bill Clinton on the golf course Saturday, in a friendly contest of first duffers who’ve known the pressures of office and the joys of relieving them on the links. The two teed off on a cloudy afternoon at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington and finished up just over four hours later. Read full article > >

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Drive for show, putt for dough: Obama, Bill Clinton hit the links at Air Force base

Today, Bethesda Row kicks off “ The Front Row ,” an annual three-day fashion festival of trunk shows, sales and film screenings. The festival kicks off with a free screening of acclaimed fashion documentary “ Bill Cunningham New York ” at 8 p.m. at Bethesda’s Landmark Theater. The acclaimed documentary follows New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham as he shoots his renowned “On the Street” and “Evening Hours” columns. Read full article > >

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Bethesda Row’s “The Front Row” Kicks Off With “Bill Cunningham New York” Screening

The sky-is-falling Capitals fans want one thing written today. Because they’re so used to doom enveloping their franchise every spring, they want angst, desperation, panic. They want, “OUR SEASON IS 48 HOURS FROM MELTING IN TAMPA!”

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NHL playoffs 2011: No time for the Capitals, and their fans, to panic

On the morning of Dec. 13, Bruce Boudreau arrived at the Washington Capitals’ Arlington training facility as he would any morning during the season, just after 7. In the restless hours immediately preceding, Boudreau’s club had endured the most ignominious defeat of his three-year tenure as coach: a 7-0 humiliation by the New York Rangers, the team’s sixth loss in a row. In the hours ahead, nothing short of a sea change awaited the organization. “We had to do something,” Boudreau said.

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Stanley Cup playoffs: Washington Capitals put philosophical differences to the test

Exercising or having sex roughly triples a person’s risk of heart attack in the hours immediately afterward, especially if the person does those activities infrequently, according to a new analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Heart risk spikes after sex, exercise

The multitasking star of “127 Hours” has two people filming all his preparations as an Oscar co-host.

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Carpetbagger: James Franco’s Prep, Captured by James Franco

Just in case police need any more evidence connecting Jared Loughner to the Arizona shooting: Police think they’ve found the black bag that Loughner allegedly carried in the hours before the shooting. A man walking his dog came across it in Loughner’s…

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Police May Have Found Loughner’s Bag

The King’s Speech beats Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours on their opening weekend to top the box office in the UK and Ireland.

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King’s Speech tops UK box office

Health officials apologise to an 82-year-old cancer patient who has to wait nearly four hours in the back of an ambulance outside a hospital in Gwynedd.

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OAP’s ‘four hours in ambulance’

127 Hours, Danny Boyle’s film about the hiker who cut off his own arm after getting under a boulder, opens Friday to rave reviews. A.O. Scott in The New York Times calls it “nearly flawless,” saying that “the film leaves you with the impression of…

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