Wanted: America’s Next Prison Rodeo Queen
If you want to advance beyond your current dead-end job, experts say you must be nimble and quick to leap at employment opportunities that may disappear in the blink of an eye. Sort of like […]
If you want to advance beyond your current dead-end job, experts say you must be nimble and quick to leap at employment opportunities that may disappear in the blink of an eye. Sort of like […]
An image that Google correctly categorized as a tabby cat was, with only a few pixels changed, subsequently identified by the same algorithm as guacamole. The Boston Globe We’re heading into the dog days of […]
We were sitting outside, enjoying a clear night after a spring of constant rain, when my wife told me that our eldest son was going to Martha’s Vineyard with friends for the Fourth of July. “You’ll […]
“Sixty is the new sexty” according to nine out of ten physicians who have nothing better to do than fill out on-line surveys, but what if you don’t know Dr. Phil, Oprah or Dr. Ruth […]
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. Firemen worked frantically against the clock in a desperate attempt to save the lives of shoppers at the Barnes & Noble bookstore here after a shelf gave way when “My Life As a […]
The entertainer still wants to spread joy, but now she is on a mission to prevent suicides. Charo Affirms Life, The New York Times SundayStyles. I have come to Beverly Hills, Home of a Million […]
With summer comes beach reading, and a by-product of the season’s lower intellectual standards is that one’s literary risk-reward ratio expands exponentially, the way pole vaulting records were shattered by quantum leaps when athletes abandoned aluminum […]
Lewis Rosensteil, head of Schenley Distillers, once had 5,000 parrots trained to say “Drink Old Quaker” bourbon, then gave them to bartenders. The Wall Street Journal, review of “Empire: The Past and Future of America’s […]
Middle of the summer and my kids–Scooter, the younger, and Skipper–are starting to get bored with their usual routine. Too much “screen time”–TV, video games, computers–and their eyes have taken on the dull glaze of the […]
NEW YORK. In a sign that even the world of belle-lettres is not immune to the wave of xenophobia that is sweeping the nation, the Association of American Publishers today called for a “time-out” on […]