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  • Greek yogurts half a supertanker per year toxic waste problem

    New York's Chobani Greek Yogurt has been a boon to the state's economy, but the company has yet to find a good way to dispose of the toxic by-product of its product's production: acid whey. Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffit eating her curds and the toxic by-product of Greek yogurt.The production of the smooth, creamy and protein-packed breakfast food that has made brands like ...

  • Contemporary Theatrical Adaptation of Homer’s Iliad

    For the first time in the history of the Greek theater, the audience will have the opportunity to watch the theatrical adaptation of The Iliad of Homer. In the Athens Festival, the contemporary adaptation of the Iliad directed by Stathis Livathinos, will be presented by Polyplanity Productions on June 4-8. Fifteen actors and actresses appear in the play based on Dimitris Maronitis' ...

  • Greeces National Bank shares to trade ex-rights from May 24

    ATHENS | Wed May 22, 2013 2:12pm EDT ATHENS May 22 (Reuters) - Shares in Greece's largest lender National Bank (NBG) will trade without rights to buy into its 9.75 billion euro share issue from May 24, the Athens stock exchange said on Wednesday after the securities regulator cleared NBG's prospectus for the offer. Greece's top four banks, including National, need 27.5 ...

  • Soccer-Greek championship champions league play-off results and standings

    Champions League preliminary round 2-4: Europa League Next Fixtures (GMT): Wednesday, May 22 Asteras Tripolis v PAOK Salonika (1730) Sunday, May 26 PAOK Salonika v Asteras Tripolis (1515) Atromitos Athinon v PAS Giannena ...

  • Crisis Affects Greeks’ Sexual Life

    The Hellenic Society for the Study of Human Sexuality (EMAS) and the Andrology Institute of Athens conducted a research, according to which the financial crisis has affected Greeks' personal and sexual life and has increased incidences of violence against women. The research was based on 600 men and 400 women who were interviewed via telephone. Men between 35 to 45 years old comprise the ...


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The Ladykillers (2004)

The Ladykillers (2004)

While their most recent outing, last years Intolerable Cruelty, was the least Coen-ish movies Joel and Ethan Coen had ever made, they have returned with their unique authorial presence fully intact with The Ladykillers, which is, quite ironically, th ... ...

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  • Vice-Rector Cleared of iPhone Gift

    Giannis Pantis, vice-rector of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, has been accused of allegedly using university funds to buy an iPhone device to offer as a gift to actress Natalia Dragoumi. A Thessaloniki court acquitted him over charges of breath of faith, as reported in Kathimerini newspaper. While in court, Pantis blamed Giorgos Dimitriadis, the former commercial ...

  • Update Luring Tourists Back to Greece

    Kostas, a waiter at the Diodos taverna, which offers a splendid view of the scene, smiled. A year ago, amid a political and economic crisis that fueled protests in central Athens and pushed Greece toward the brink of exiting the euro zone, the surrounding streets were hauntingly empty. But on a recent Saturday afternoon, Kostas, who only gave his first name, was scrambling to find an empty ...

  • Golden Dawn Models Itself On Hezbollah

    Ilias Panagiotaros, a Member of the Greek Parliament from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that is rising in popularity with its opposition to government austerity measures and immigrants, and for free food giveaways and vigilante patrols. ATHENS - Under fire in Greece for its anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic stance, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is looking to the terrorist group Hezbollah as an ...

  • Lens Blog Angelos Tzortziniss Photos of Growing Desperation in Greece

    ATHENS -- ';Five euros only, just 5 euros,'; whispered Maria, a young prostitute with sunken cheeks and bedraggled hair, as she pitched herself forward from the shadows of a graffiti-riddled alley in central Athens on a recent weeknight. As a chill wind swept paper and trash across a grimy sidewalk, Angelos Tzortzinis, a ...

  • Research and Markets ICT Market Report 201213 Greece

    "ICT Market Report 2012/13 Greece" report to their offering. This report provides the reader with an intimate understanding of the development and trends of the Greek ICT market. The bi-annual European Information Technology Observatory (EITO) market reports have built a strong reputation as indispensible source of information for marketing, consulting, policy analysis. ...

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