Aug 17th, 2008 · In the Grease to Greece road rally kicked off in London Saturday. Teams are heading for Athens in vehicles powered by used cooking oil. The object isn't necessarily who can get to Athens first, rather it's who can get there the greenest. Andy Pag speaks with Robert Smith.
Keywords: road · London · vehicle · Driver · Robert Smith · Athens · Greece · Andy Pag
Jun 4th, 2008 · Though she waves the flag of her Greek heritage proudly, Nicole Spiridakis says, she never liked feta — until she went to Greece last summer and really tasted it. She bit into a slab of the fresh, creamy Greek cheese, sat straight up and paid attention.
Keywords: Heritage · Greek · Feta · Greece · Creamy · Nicole Spiridakis · emtasted
May 2nd, 2008 · A man filed suit in Greece insisting that he is a Lesbian. Dimitris Lambrou lives on Lesbos, the island that gave its name to gay women. He wants a group called the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece to give the name back.
Keywords: residents · Gay · Island · homosexual · Lesbians · Greece · Lesbos · Dimitris Lambrou · Lesbian Community of Greece
Mar 24th, 2008 · The Olympic torch is now on its 85,000 journey to Beijing, despite attempts by human rights protesters to disrupt the torch-lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia, Greece.
Keywords: protests · ceremony · human · Beijing · journey · ancient · Greek · olympic · Greece · Olympia
Oct 11th, 2007 · Mythology, the latest in the popular "Ology" series for children, explores the stories of ancient Greece. The large books are filled with illustrations and interactive elements, providing a tactile alternative to the Internet.
Keywords: children · Internet · ancient · illustrator · ology · mythology · Greece · Alternative · tactile
Sep 17th, 2007 · Greece's conservative ruling party wins a second four-year term by a slim majority, despite widespread anger over its handling of devastating wildfires that claimed 65 lives. They lost substantial ground, however, and will be hard pressed to tackle pressing economic problems.
Keywords: elections · devastation · economic · wildfire · Conservation · Greek · Greece
Sep 16th, 2007 · The conservative ruling party appears to have won Sunday's parliamentary elections in Greece -- but barely. Early returns indicate the New Democracy Party will have a slim majority in parliament. The election came just weeks after devastating wildfires in Greece.
Keywords: Parliament · devastation · Parliamentary · wildfire · Conservation · Greek · Greece · New Democracy Party
Sep 16th, 2007 · Today's election in Greece is dominated by the recent summer fires, which killed at least 65 people and devastated huge swathes of the country. Amid public anger over what is widely seen as the inability of the government to prevent and then deal with the emergency, there is widespread resentment over the political system, which for nearly a century has been dominated by successive generations of two families.
Keywords: emergency · politics · country · devastation · public · families · Greek · Greece
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