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  • Marketing scams in 2012 saw Australian consumers robbed of over $94mn Marketing scams in 2012 saw Australian consumers robbed of over $94mn

    SYDNEY - Australian consumers were fleeced of nearly $94 million last year due to various marketing scams, with the majority being perpetrated using text messages and direct calls, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in its latest report. The actual number of losses due to scams could be much higher because many go unreported, stated ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard. The ...

  • Pietersen confirms fitness for Ashes after knee injury

    England batsman Kevin Pietersen who has not played since March owing to knee injury has confirmed that he will be returning to the team and aim for the Ashes series. Pietersen has said that he will return with the Surrey in their County Championship fixture against Yorkshire in the next week, Sport24 reports. According to the report, this fixture has been considered a comeback for Pietersen ...

  • Parents physical activity unlikely to influence teen fitness

    A new study has found that while teens with normal weight parents tended to be more fit, having physically active parents didn't affect teens' level of fitness. Cardiorespiratory fitness influences health in youth and adulthood, said lead study author Eliane Peterhans, a sports sciences researcher at the University of Konstanz in Germany. "It is very important to understand how adolescents ...

  • Sports Briefing | Swimming Danish Swimmer Tests Positive for Drugs

    Mads Glaesner, a Danish swimmer, will be stripped of gold and bronze medals from last ...

  • Sports Briefing | Basketball Russian Women Out of World Championship

    Russia did not advance past the opening round of the EuroBasket ...


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The Sweet Hereafter

In "The Sweet Hereafter," writer/director Atom Egoyan takes us beyond the tragedy of death into the tragedy of living. He shows us how it isn't dying that hurts, but rather the pain of living in the hereafter of death, and dealing with the loss and grief that it brings. On a cold winter day in a small, isolated town in British Columbia, a school bus full of children slides off the highway and onto ... ...

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