Spoon&#39;s summer drought
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JD WETHERSPOON embarked on a fresh round of price promotions yesterday to win back drinkers after a dismal summer for the pubs chain.
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The summer dry spell for video  games came to an end last week with the arrival of &quot;BioShock,&quot;  the creepy underwater shooter that has won rave reviews and  flown off store shelves.
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By day, Keepon is a deceptively sophisticated, Kyoto-based robot and serious child-development research tool. By night, Spoon is a rock band from Austin whose awesome new record, "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga," is a serious critical and commercial success. Spoon frontman Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno met the bandâs most renowned groupie in July when WIRED brought the trio together in Tokyo to make "Keepon dancing to Spoon's 'Don't You Evah'".
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By Wayne Nelson, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Dec. 12--It's been more than two decades since the Lake Region State College men's basketball program recorded back-to-back 20-win seasons.   That drought appears to be over.
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Travel: Summer was a washout, so get autumn off to a flying start with our bumper crop of breaks.
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Big summer films such as  &quot;Superman Returns&quot; and &quot;Cars&quot; are looking further afield than  traditional marketing partners like McDonald&#039;s, Burger King and  PepsiCo as they try to reach niche markets -- and figure out  how to deal with media attention on junk food and obesity.
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A general malaise is overtaking what was once the hottest - and still the most controversial - trend in the food business.
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I have resisted commenting on this summer&#39;s weather in hopes that it would straighten itself out. Since that no longer seems possible, however, I feel compelled to offer some advice on the subject.
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I made a quick stop at the Gartner Financial Services Technology conference in Boston last week, en route to a long weekend in Rhode Island, where I consumed more lobster than previously thought physically possible â we donât get lobster on the West Coast, and donât even get me started about the clam chowder!
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Fishing is steady although the number of anglers going out has been down somewhat. Walleye can still be taken most anywhere, but you have to work for it.  Dropping water levels have led to unusable ramps.
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The annual summer barbecues that Ralph Friedgen and Frank Beamer co-host at their lake homes in Georgia may be a little less cordial after the way Beamer&#39;s Virginia Tech Hokies waxed Friedgen&#39;s Maryland Terrapins 55-6 last night.
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IT'S PROBABLY TOO EARLY to call it a drought, but anyone with a vegetable garden, flower patch or lawn knows that we are in a significant dry period. As of Monday, Springfield was about 4 inches behind the amount of precipitation it would normally expect.
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By Thomas R. Webber  With the recent heat wave we have all been baking through, it may be hard to believe that this month marks the change of seasons.
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Nestle's profit growth is hampered by a summer of poor European weather and higher raw material costs.
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Life & style: Rose Elliot: Traditional Christmas vegetable is latest victim of wet summer.
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Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this dry summer will never end up as pasta, bread or beer. What is left of the stifled crops has been salvaged to feed livestock struggling on pastures where hot winds blow clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds.
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America is in the grips of a nefarious chicken-finger pandemic, in which a blandly tasty foodstuff has somehow become the de facto official nibble of our young.