The world’s largest retailer is trying to live up to their smiley face and listen to their customers. Cheap gas, culturally targeted stores, and a less mafia-like approach keep the people’s wallets open.
WASHINGTON -- The government paid more than $1 billion in questionable Medicare claims for medical supplies that showed little relation to a patient's condition, including blood glucose strips for sexual impotence and special diabetic shoes for leg amputees, congressional investigators say. Billions more in taxpayer dollars may...
The problem with Philadelphia City Council - OK, one of many problems - is that it doesn't think big. Except when it comes to summer vacations. Take the curious case of Christopher Wright, Councilman Jack Kelly's suspended chief of staff. He's charged with taking $16,000 in gifts from the Chawla...
THE HOUSE BUNNY -- ** -- Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Colin Hanks; rated PG-13 (vulgarity, profanity, slapstick violence, slurs, brief partial nudity) Anna Faris, you're a funny person. Or at least you can be funny in the right material, which is why you deserve better than "The...
Users Can Now Categorize Stories Based on Six Distinct Descriptors DailyWe Section Now Shows News by Emotion and Popularity HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- DailyMe, Inc. (http://dailyme.com) is putting a face to the news. The interactive media and technology start-up today announced the launch of Meme-It,...
BEIJING -- Kerri Walsh's and Misty May-Treanor's waltz through pool play in their quest for the first repeat gold medal in Olympic beach volleyball history might have looked routine. It wasn't. In fact, nothing this summer has been routine for Walsh, who is in more pain and has...
PARIS -- From 5 to 14 July 2008, Paris, the world's top tourist destination, will be using the slogan "Paris smiles for you!" to welcome visitors and make Parisians aware that tourism is important for them and their city. On 7 July 2008, Paris smiled...
What a glorious week it has been for our sceptred isle's favourite sport! The first days of July are always a high point for professional nostalgism, in truth, but this year footage of Borg and McEnroe swinging their quaint wooden rackets through that monster tie-breaker of...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I WAS A HUSBAND FOR NEARLY 19 YEARS. Then suddenly two Septembers ago I became a wife. No, it wasn't a sex-change operation; I'm perfectly happy with my penis and have no need for breasts. The change was that my wife...
Verizon Wireless Reports More Than 1 Billion Text Messages Each Month Sent Over Florida Wireless Network TAMPA, Fla. -- With Floridians of all ages now communicating with text messaging on their wireless phones, Verizon Wireless reports that more than 1 billion texts each month are...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Music has a few kings, but make no mistake, there is only one Prince. His royal badness, who just turned 50, still performs with the passion and fire of someone just getting started. That's because Prince has remained an artist and...
Man without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster by Markus Wolf. Public Affairs (http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com), 250 West 57th Street, Suite 1321, New York, New York 10107, 1999, 460 pages, $19.00 softcover. Do you yearn for a good Cold War espionage story, one full of...
MY grandfather was a coal miner. My father was an electrical engineer. Energy appears to be in my blood. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I was growing up in the north of England, we seemed to be heading for a new age of energy...
Safa serves raw, experimental food in a fast-paced, designer setting. Can it put the va-va-voom into vegetarianism? It's the energy that hits you. Everyone at Saf is full of it. They're off their faces with it. Waitresses can barely stand still long enough...
Nostalgic hippie ruralism and an aura of wilful mystery surround the Seattle band Fleet Foxes. JAMES MCNAIR tries to work out what makes them tick When I meet Robin Pecknold, it's less than 24 hours since he made the 4,799-mile journey from Seattle...
CHILDREN have created a fantasy garden at Golcar Junior, Infant and Nursery School. Pupils worked with Yorkshire Water volunteers to create the garden, as part of the One Million Green Fingers project. The company's campaign aims to encourage youngsters to learn about the environment, conservation and...
IN MARCH, London's Daily Mail reported that a British elementary school had obscured the heads of children in group photographs on the school's website with oval smiley faces, "apparently to protect them from paedophiles." The widespread anxieties underlying that bizarre incident are almost entirely off the mark, according to a...
I have an idea for an art installation. Countless pairs of knickers in an enormous, elegant twist. I'll call it The Great Art Controversy. People will pay to come and hate it and I shall laugh, rather as I imagine Jake and Dinos Chapman are laughing now at the outraged...
Mr. Biggs is scaling back in its latest incarnation. Entrepreneur Steve Bigari and his partners opened Mr. Biggs Family Fun Center on the northwest side of Colorado Springs in 2005 and recently transformed Fat City in Littleton into the first Denver- area...
Best place to work out with your kids VILLASPORT This health club goes way beyond the old room in the back where you warehouse the kids while you work out. Instead, the VillaKids program here engages them in music, dance or other...
Articles 2008-05-16
<< Previous
page 1 of 1
Next >>
Premier Vendor Content
Whitepapers, webcasts & resources from our Power Center Sponsors
With AT&T Tech Support 360, you'll have certified, U.S. based technicians on call 24/7 to help keep your computers, connections, software and peripherals up to speed for just 82¢ a day.
