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Some Turks relieved as House delays vote on genocide declaration By Arya Hebbar, CORRESPONDENT Posted: 11/03/2007 02:41:57 AM PDT Updated: 11/03/2007 02:41:57 AM PDT Bay Area Armenians are disappointed the House delayed voting on a resolution declaring the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I a genocide, but their Turkish counterparts are relieved.
In one deft three-second move, her small fingers stretch and twist a length of white cotton thread into a Y shape between her two hands and mouth. In the next five minutes, Shilpi Goel's fingers work the twist in the thread like miniature shears and snip away at the pair of bushy eyebrows facing her.
Got game? They did. What they didn't have was a place to play. Basketball buffs Peter Naylor and Pramod Shantharam drive up and down San Francisco a chilly February evening looking for a pick-up game. No luck in any of the courts on Mission Street or Church Street or Glenn Park or Portero Hill.
By Arya Hebbar, CORRESPONDENT Posted: 09/28/2007 02:37:21 AM PDT Updated: 09/28/2007 02:39:04 AM PDT SAN CARLOS THERE are two ways to fly a plane: in the cockpit or from the ground. A dozen people who have perfected flying from the ground as an art form will show off their scale-model aircraft, tell stories and provide technical tips this weekend.
Entry detailed creation of memorial scrapbook By Arya Hebbar, CORRESPONDENT Posted: 11/07/2007 02:42:49 AM PST Updated: 11/07/2007 02:42:49 AM PST "Lola's Little Scrapbook" is a special paper memorial with the picture of a little girl with wings on its rainbow-colored cover.