Wednesday, September 02, 2009 WASHINGTON: Former first daughter and UT alum Jenna Bush Hager will begin contributing a "variety of human interest and feature stories" to NBC's Today. Hager impressed the show's producers in previous appearances, and her résumé includes vaguely journalistic endeavors like Ana's Story, the biography of an HIV-positive teenage mother Hager met during a UNICEF internship, and the pro-literacy children's book, Read All About It, co-authored by her mother. Besides, do you know how hard it is to fill four hours of morning television?Long after the fateful night when Hager was busted for sidling up to the Chuy's bar with a fake I.D., she quietly completed her studies at UT, married fellow politician's kid Henry Hager, and settled in Baltimore, where she currently works as a teacher. "I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about, because I think I'd do the best job on them—education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy," she told media.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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