Marshall Jackson on Travel - I Just Love it When I Wait on Hold for 50 Minutes….. - USA Today
26 May 2012, 1:08 am
only to be told what I already knew (but forgot). That being that you can’t change an Avios award within 24 hours of departure. Better yet, the time on hold approximately equals the length of the flight I was calling about. If you saw my post yesterday ...

Afghanistan – We forgot History and We Repeated It - Lewrockwell.com
25 May 2012, 10:38 pm
Santayana’s famous dictum about those who forget history being condemned to relieve it is nowhere better observed than in the mountains of Afghanistan. One of my favorite artists was the superb Victorian painter Lady Jane Butler who captured in oil the ...

Single-sort recycling coming to Minneapolis - Minneapolis City Pages (blog)
25 May 2012, 3:21 pm
Sick of sorting your recyclables into more categories than you can keep straight? 'Paper, plastic, glass, coarse, smooth.... ah, forgot it, it's going in the trash!' Those frustrations will soon be in the past, as today the Minneapolis City Council ...

Facebook: A lesson in IPO investing - USA Today
25 May 2012, 2:31 pm
Amid the frenzy for shares of the No. 1 social-networking company, many investors forgot a key of investing in initial public offerings: They're risky and can go down. More than 40% of the IPOs done in the past 12 months are below their IPO ...

'Chernobyl Diaries': Reviews Of The Movie You Probably forgot Existed - Huffington Post
25 May 2012, 9:02 am
"Chernobyl Diaries" arrives in theaters this weekend on nearly 2,500 screens, but you'd be forgiven for not realizing it exists. After all, with "Men In Black 3" and Will Smith sucking up all the Internet bandwidth, who has time for some cheapie ...

The mummified man the world forgot: Body lay undiscovered in house for MONTHS as post piled high in mailbox - Daily Mail
24 May 2012, 12:09 pm
The mummified body of a man has been found after it lay undiscovered in his Illinois house for several months. Eugene 'Sonny' Davis, 70, who was estranged from his family, died from natural causes at his home in Blue Island, near Chicago. Neighbours say ...

The Wonder That Tennis forgot - Wall Street Journal
21 May 2012, 9:28 am
He is the unfrozen phenom. Brian Baker was going to be a tennis star. That's where this was headed. A decade ago, Baker was one of the best junior tennis players in the world, the wiry kid from Nashville, Tenn., with the punishing game, so good ...

How dems forgot the public good - New York Post
20 May 2012, 8:56 pm
Over the last few months, the Obama-Biden campaign and its allies have offered up phony issues to drive the national political conversation — the Buffett rule, the “war on women,” the student-loan fight, the “Life of Julia” ad, the gay-marriage ...

What JP Morgan Chase forgot About 2008 - Forbes
20 May 2012, 4:10 pm
1. JP Morgan Chase’s chief investment office accumulated a huge bet– maybe $100 billion– in a so-called “weapon of mass destruction” (as in self-destruct) in a very risky credit default swap contract that was a bet on corporate credits ...

It Seems Yankee Candle forgot A Few Important Scents In Its Man Candle Line - BestWeekEver.tv (satire)
16 May 2012, 6:59 pm
Yankee Candle debuted its new Man Candle line recently (and finally!) for everyone in your life with a Y chromosome whose hairy, testosterone-filled body rejects the smell of vanilla or lavender. So far their selection is really bringing the ...