President seeks ways to provide more help to jobless
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
President seeks ways to provide more help to jobless
President seeks ways to provide more help to jobless
Samoa tsunami damage
Countries that billionaires could buy
Countries that billionaires could buy
Why stop at a castle or an island?
In theory, these billionaires could buy a country.
And the winner is ...
Winners of potato chip taste test
Some have classic crunch, others have exotic flavors, but all of them are dangerously addictive.
Health tips for living to 100
Health tips for living to 100
Adopt these six healthy habits to transform your body and your life expectancy.
Lucrative jobs go unfilled in bad times
Lucrative jobs go unfilled in bad times
There's a reason why jobs that pay $55,000 to $60,000, plus benefits, remain unfilled.
At odds over Afghanistan
At odds over Afghanistan
Amid rising U.S. casualties, debate over President Obama's Afghanistan war strategy heats up.
David Letterman's Blackmailer Deep in Debt; Pleads Not Guilty
This news just gives us the motive behind Robert J. Halderman's alleged blackmail plot against David Letterman.
He was deep in debt.
According to Assistant District Attorney Judy Salwen, Joe Halderman was in financial trouble.
DoH! Government selects new ambassadors for new healthy living ...
DoH! Government selects new ambassadors for new healthy living campaign ... yup, the dysfunctional, doughnut-loving Simpsons.
With his penchant for doughnuts and beer, Homer Simpson is hardly a role model for nutritious eaters.
Nobel guessing game at fever pitch
Nobel guessing game
Elections Board
N.C. elections board's power has grown over decade
Documents Out Ahmadinejad as Having Jewish Roots
A report by the Telegraph purports to have solid evidence that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has Jewish roots.
Graham: Glenn Beck Doesn't Represent the repugican party
Pilots, Crew Slug It Out at 30,000 Feet
Sully would be ashamed of the actions of the pilots and crew on this Air India flight. Two members of the cabin crew, one male and one female, got into a fistfight with the pilot and co-pilot.
Told to stop cursing, couple at KFC beat man
Authorities say a couple, upset over the slowness of their Kentucky Fried Chicken order, assaulted a man who asked them to stop yelling profanities for the sake of children in line.
Museum Posts Only Known Video of Anne Frank to YouTube
The video shows neighbors getting married on July 22, 1941, with Anne Frank briefly shown on the balcony.
Woman paralyzed by E. coli-tainted hamburger
She was in a coma for nine weeks (that's her, hospitalized, in the photo below), and can now no longer walk. "Ground beef is not a completely safe product," one food safety expert in the article is quoted. Well, no shit.
From an extensive investigative report in Sunday's New York Times:
The frozen hamburgers that the Smiths ate, which were made by the food giant Cargill, were labeled "American Chef's Selection Angus Beef Patties." Yet confidential grinding logs and other Cargill records show that the hamburgers were made from a mix of slaughterhouse trimmings and a mash-like product derived from scraps that were ground together at a plant in Wisconsin. The ingredients came from slaughterhouses in Nebraska, Texas and Uruguay, and from a South Dakota company that processes fatty trimmings and treats them with ammonia to kill bacteria.Using a combination of sources -- a practice followed by most large producers of fresh and packaged hamburger -- allowed Cargill to spend about 25 percent less than it would have for cuts of whole meat.
Those low-grade ingredients are cut from areas of the cow that are more likely to have had contact with feces, which carries E. coli, industry research shows. Yet Cargill, like most meat companies, relies on its suppliers to check for the bacteria and does its own testing only after the ingredients are ground together.
Green roofs save on carbon overheads
Green roofs save on carbon overheads
Polar Bears
Discoveries astound the Web
Discoveries astound the Web
Football-sized dinosaur eggs and a new ancestor of humanity astound the Internet
Kids find huge bag filled with cash
Kids find huge bag filled with cash
Mayhem ensues in Germany when kids give their classmates money found in a paper bag.
Daily Almanac
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Today In History October 4, 2009
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Daily Horoscope
The activities throughout the day will create a lot of different possibilities, and it may be hard to decide which opportunity you want to explore.
You have so few things limiting your options, and that is a blessing, but it is also a burden.
For the first time in a long while, you don't need to ask anyone for permission about what to do.
There's no resistance to work against.
You'll end up a winner any way you choose -- as long as you choose with conviction.
Choose, eh.