Archive for January, 2010:

How to Get Your Kids to Eat Almost Anything

Parents often bribe, plead and even threaten their kids to get them to eat their veggies. And while this feeding strategy may get kids to reluctantly ingest their greens, studies show it makes healthful foods less attractive to children over the long haul. It’s like kids take that pressure and translate it [...]

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie — No Pics, Please

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were together at the Directors Guild Awards last night … but they weren’t photographed that way. Instead the only person to be seen with them both was “Inglourious Basterds” director Quentin Tarantino. Love triangle …
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Davos Forum Ends With No Consensus On How To Improve The Economy Or Prevent Another Crisis

DAVOS, Switzerland — The world’s foremost gathering of business and government leaders wrapped up a five-day meeting Sunday with widespread agreement that a fragile recovery is under way but no consensus on what’s going to spur job growth and prevent another global economic meltdown.
In a group of big egos and many power players attending the [...]

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Beth Arnold: In iWorld

The promise of yet another fab Apple product in our iLives–the iPad–reminded me of this photo I took in Athens:

I am a huge Apple fan–but couldn’t resist taking a snapshot of this T-shirt hanging outside a kitsch tourist shop in Athens’ Plaka neighborhood.
And you, any other ideas for T-shirts that represent our iLives?
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Property Values Projected to Fall 12% in 2010

Michael David White submits:
NewObservations.net projects residential real estate prices will fall 12 percent nationwide in 2010.
Our average of four major indexes predicts a total fall in prices of 34% from peak to stable trend. The total fall of 34% is based upon a current loss across four number sets of 19%.
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Community Bank Stocks with Dividend Yields Higher than 5%

David Hunkar submits:
Unlike many other countries, there are thousands of small community banks in the U.S. These banks have a smaller foot print when compared to the regional or national banks such as Bank of America (BAC), Fifth Third Bank (FITB), U.S. Bank (USB), etc. However they are usually know their customers better and [...]

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Remedial Writing

Prof. Jack Miller writes about his experience teaching remedial writing at Normandale Community College (Bloomington, MN):
“Whatever their backgrounds, their writing problems fit into relatively few categories. Not surprisingly, they have little understanding of grammar and see it as a set of arbitrary “rules” concocted by sadistic pedants harboring grudges against the young. Punctuation is an [...]

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Back To The Grind

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I embark on a whole new career tomorrow.   Well, not entirely new, but certainly different.
I start working again.   After 17 very long months of  arduous unemployment;  after submitting application and resume after application and resume, I finally landed a job that was literally handed to me.   It’s not an ideal job by any means.  It’s [...]

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Dear Abby, My Girlfriend Bites People with her Vagina

Dear Abby,
My girlfriend has been really weird recently. For starters, she’s completely stopped combing her hair and now only wears old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Halloween costumes and raggedy, torn up wedding dresses that reek of tuna fish. We hardly even talk anymore; oftentimes when I attempt to speak to her she simply growls or [...]

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‘Jersey Shore’ Cast — All for One, One for All

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The “Jersey Shore” cast will all be paid the same for season 2 of the MTV show, sources connected with the negotiations tell TMZ. We’re told it was important the producers wanted to avoid infighting among the cast … at least on the subject of money …
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