U.S. to File Concerns Over Google Book Pact he Justice Department is expected Friday to outline a range of concerns it has about a settlement that Google Inc. struck with authors and publishers over the rights to distribute digital copies of certain works, according to people familiar with the matter. The Justice Department will submit […]
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Italy’s blue mozzarella cheese mystery
Italian police confiscated some 70,000 balls of mozzarella in Turin after consumers noticed the milky-white cheese quickly developed a bluish tint when the package was opened, authorities said Saturday. Agriculture Minister Giancarlo Galan ordered ministry laboratories to investigate what he called a “disturbing” development. State TV said a woman in Turin called police after noticing […]
Saving Is Something You Should Do Every Day
Americans have forgotten how to save in recent years. First, we came to regard the stock market as our piggy bank; if we needed a little spending money, surely we could always sell a few shares of stock or a bit of a mutual fund at a profit. Then, we viewed our houses as money […]
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Norway Doomsday Seed Vault Hits 1/2 Million Mark
Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault’s operators announced Thursday. Cary Fowler — who heads the trust that oversees the seed collection, which is 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) […]
Chelsea’s Wedding Town Caters to Clinton-Mania
The locals in the town where Chelsea Clinton is set to tie the knot today are so fired up about the attention … they’re literally renaming their food in honor of the former first family. TMZ has learned The Rhinecliff — a fancy restaurant in Rhinebeck, NYÂ — has rechristened their menu in honor of […]
Weakest Life & Health Insurers in the U.S.
Data Date: Second Quarter 2009 Name State Total Assets ($) Ability Ins Co NE 257,201,027 Adams Life Ins Co AL 2,435,788 Admiral Life Ins Co Of America AZ 14,132,897 Advanta Life Ins Co AZ 4,413,280 AGL Life Assurance Co PA 4,083,655,061 Alabama Life Reins Co Inc AL 46,374,350 Amalgamated Life & Health Ins Co IL […]
The Brady Bunch
Architect Mike Brady marries beautiful young Carol, who has three girls to care for. Likewise, Mike’s previous wife’s death has left him to raise his three boys all alone. In no time this amalgam becomes the ideal average American middle class family. Of course, raising such a large family isn’t easy, so live-in housekeeper Alice […]