Features Articles (Muleskinner)
Elderly women participating in synchronized swimming, flies behaving badly, a poster promoting a fictional circus, and a cluttered garage are all sources of inspiration in the paintings of 2007 UCM graduate Emma Ginsberg.

Spain top FIFA rankings (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)
Fresh off winning Euro 2008, Spain was awarded the top spot in the FIFA world rankings released Wednesday by soccer's international governing body.

Frederick Community College announces spring semester deans list (The Herald-Mail)
FREDERICK, Md Dr. Suzanne Beal, acting vice president for learning at Frederick Community College, has published the deans list for the 2008 spring semester. Nine hundred and fifteen students achieved the designation for exemplary grade point averages. The list recognizes full-time and part-time students who have earned 12 or more credits, completed at least six credits during the semester, and ...

In budget crisis, eyes turn toward Endicott (The Salem News)
BEVERLY and mdash; With its scenic oceanside location, $25 million endowment and $100 million in new buildings over the last 10 years, Endicott College looks like the picture of economic health. Meanwhile, the city it calls home just closed a school and eliminated 30 jobs due to budget problems.

.Shower' honors missionaries who gave up everything (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Imagine you and your spouse have chosen to get rid of all your belongings and work as missionaries in a Brazilian slum for 51/2 years. Now imagine that you're taking your four children, ages 2 to 8, with you. That's what Joe and Denise Sandman did in 2003. .When Nathan was 2, we thought, .If we're ever going to go overseas, now's the time to do it.'.

Obama & the Black Church (New York Review of Books)
My parents, old NAACP activists, live in front of CNN, and back in April I happened to be with them in Indianapolis the week before the Indiana primary, when the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy returned to embarrass Senator Barack Obama's campaign.

Today's Highlight in History (Erie Times-News)
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began, as North Korea invaded South Korea. 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

The almanac (Moldova.org)
Today is Wednesday, June 25, the 177th day of 2008 with 189 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus. The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include French composer Gustave Charpentier in 1860; Broadway producer George Abbott in 1887; English novelist and critic George Orwell, author ...

Last of the 'Warrior Brothers' suspects pleads guilty (The Salem News)
BEVERLY and mdash; The final defendant in a series of violent muggings in Beverly and Salem nearly two years ago has pleaded guilty to his role in the spree. But he could be back on the streets soon. Sean Caldwell was a member of the Warrior Brothers, a self-styled street gang that set out to randomly attack and rob people, apparently as some sort of initiation rite, in September 2006.

News (The West Australian)
The world's population is projected to reach 7 billion in 2012, the US Census Bureau said, with the number of people in India on course to exceed that in China.