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Facebook's FarmVille has millions playing the field

student who dressed as her FarmVille avatar for Hallo ween and interrupts homework to plant pomegranate trees online. \ Few people want to start a farm in real life, but since ...

From MICHAEL BOOTH, Denver Post,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Activision, Inc.

Black Hawk mining business pans Colo. 119 projects

Creek. to landowners such as Vic's Gold Panning, based on independent appraisals. Peterson is awaiting an offer, meanwhile scoffing at Black Hawk leaders' dreams to widen the road and clean up the canyon to create what ...

From MICHAEL BOOTH, Denver Post,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency

Family Films: One man's lonely struggle for truth in the North

Is it a contradiction to recommend a DVD for the idea that it may help combat media saturation? On the theory that you and your kids will be watching something on a screen anyway, here's hoping you'll make room for 1983's "Never Cry Wolf," a quietly ...

From MICHAEL BOOTH THE DENVER POST, Denver Post,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Martin Smith,  Carroll Ballard

New foster program offers care for ailing veterans in Colorado

neurological disorder that slows his body and his thoughts. When he left the nursing home, he was wheelchair bound and eating nothing but candy, cookies and cola all day. Ryan was having none of that. She asked ...

From MICHAEL BOOTH, Denver Post,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Steve Jackson

New technology, police efforts stall auto thefts in Colorado

Car owners buy glass-etching paste to burn their VIN permanently onto every window. Rural sheriffs plant GPS tracking devices on farm tractors or four-wheelers left out as bait for machinery thieves. Metro Denver cops drive cars with computerized ...

From MICHAEL BOOTH THE DENVER POST, Vail Daily,  2 Nov 2009

New technology, police efforts stall auto thefts

Car owners buy glass-etching paste to burn their VIN permanently onto every window. Rural sheriffs plant GPS tracking devices on farm tractors or four-wheelers left out as bait for machinery thieves. Metro Denver cops drive cars with computerized ...

From MICHAEL BOOTH, Denver Post,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Santos, Ltd.,  LoJack

Loss of state funding threatens Colorado tire cleanup

SEDALIA — Rick Welle's tire shredder whines under a bright sun, chipping slowly away at mounds of 80,000 discarded tires tucked among the sandy hills along Santa Fe Drive. But no matter how valiantly the shredder's $8,000 blades churn on, the piles of ...

From MICHAEL BOOTH THE DENVER POST, The Vail Trail,  27 Oct 2009

"Prefontaine" will have the clan running for the couch

Steve Prefontaine was a larger-than-life character your teenagers should find fascinating. He's not your holier-than- thou role model, that's for sure, and his at-times egotistical quest to turn running into a rock-star sport makes for an unusually ...

From MICHAEL BOOTH THE DENVER POST, Denver Post,  15 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Steve Prefontaine,  Frank Shorter,  Nike

"Peak oil" theorists: World running out

The world is running out of oil faster than society suspects, and last year's $4.11 gasoline spike was just a bitter hint of the future, according to a "peak oil" theory whose key proponents will gather in Denver this week. Though peak-oil theorists ...

From MICHAEL BOOTH, Denver Post,  10 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Michael Lynch (politician),  Daniel Yergin,  T. Boone Pickens

"Happyness" a good way to discuss hard times

There are a few gut-wrenching scenes in "The Pursuit of Happyness" that will leave you and your kids feeling anything but joyful. The one that got to me, and pretty much everyone who saw it in late 2006, was the moment Will Smith's homeless character ...

From MICHAEL BOOTH THE DENVER POST, Denver Post,  8 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Will Smith

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