LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Dancer and choreographer Alex Romero has died of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Los Angeles at age 94.

UPI almanac for Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007.

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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- It's too hot to play outside and the children are not ready for their nap? No problem, just pick up a book and entertain as well as enlighten them.

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Summer's here and the reading is easy. It's too hot to play outside, and the children are not ready for their nap? No problem, just pick up a book and entertain

PLEASANTON, Calif., June 11 (UPI) -- Safeway Inc., the nation's third-largest supermarket chain, announced sweeping administrative layoffs Wednesday, citing difficult economic times.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The book at a glance: The Museum of Hoaxes - A collection of pranks, stunts, deceptions and other wonderful stories contrived for the public from the middle ages to the new millennium by Alex Boese. Dutton, 266 pages, $19.95.