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CBC.ca End of the healthy line for Jenkins, StampedersCanoe.ca, Canada –11 hours agoFor the second straight week, the Stamps are going to be plugging holes left by injury at defensive end. In a Week 1 win over the BC Lions, the Stamps lost …Passing attack sparkles in thrilling home openerCanada.comSecond-half woesEdmonton SunNewest …

Near the main door of Black Hills Workshop’s Suzie Cappa Center, a men’s white dress shirt has been decoupaged onto a canvas. In another gallery room, a kitchen chair is covered completely with stamps. More: continued here

Vending machines selling postage stamps have been removed from every post-office lobby in the Seattle area, but the Seattle postmaster said consumers have more options than ever to purchase stamps without standing in line at the post office. More: continued here

Augustin Ntabaganyimana sat one sticky afternoon last month with a dozen Bhutanese people newly arrived in Concord from refugee camps in Nepal. He walked them through a cultural orientation, explaining tasks such as how to pay rent, use food stamps and apply for green cards. More: continued here

Stamps& Coins: Historic $20 bills bring big returnSacramento Bee,  USA –9 minutes agoQ: I receive mail-order catalogs from several companies selling collectible coins, currency and stamps. At least they say they're "collectible. … More: continued here

Q: A while back, you wrote about the $20 bills found by a riverbank that turned out to be part of the ransom money paid to famed airline hijacker D.B. Cooper. They were going to be sold at auction. Did the money ever sell? If so, what did it bring? …

Nearly 60 years after Chiang Kai-shek and his battered troops fled the Chinese mainland to Taiwan, scores of Taiwanese packed the first direct tourist flight from Taipei to Beijing, clutching their special edition stamps and souvenir retractable chopsticks. More: continued here

Singapore Post and Macao Post issued joint stamps for the first time here on Friday, which featured popular dishes from Singapore and Macao. The stamp issue’s launch was also in conjunction with Singapore Food Festival, which kicked … More: continued here

After a year filled with damaging doping news, government agencies and sports organizations are now looking to so-called “athlete passports” as a way to stanch the flow of performance-enhancing drugs into sports.These passports aren’t little booklets with colorful stamps from foreign countries. They exist as computer files crammed with intimate …

Nearly 60 years after Chiang Kai-shek and his battered troops fled the Chinese mainland to Taiwan, scores of Taiwanese packed the first direct tourist flight from Taipei to Beijing, clutching their special edition stamps and souvenir retractable chopsticks. More: continued here