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Small Wonders: Can you tolerate a 'Merry Christmas?'
Editor's note: While Patrick Caneday takes some time off, we’re running some of his choices for re-publication. This column was first published Dec. 5, 2009. Let me say something that may deeply offend many of you —something so insidious...Tags: Religious Festivals, Target, Winter Solstice, Nazareth, Human Interest
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Small Wonders: Sick-day musings gleaned from computer
As a tight knit family in a tight-fit house — four people, three ladies, two bedrooms, one bath, no space — we share everything. Besides my T-shirts, the most intimate thing we share is germs. So when Thing 1 and Thing 2 came home with a...Tags: White House, Politics, Elections, Anchovies, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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I'm Just Sayin': Everyone pays in the face of greed
How do you define greed? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as "a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (as money) than is needed."
Since I doubt that anyone would describe themselves this way, greed (as with beauty) must be in the...Tags: Charles Dickens, Mortgages, Children, Los Angeles, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character)
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Students win National Merit Scholarship
GLENDALE — Seven students from three Glendale Unified high schools were among the roughly 8,400 National Merit Scholarship award winners this year. The scholarships range from $500 to $10,000 annually through the National Merit Scholarship, as...Tags: Ben Bernanke, Sports, Financial Aid, Northwestern University, Education
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Facebook IPO makes Mark Zuckerberg 29th-richest person on Earth
$19.1 billion dollars. That's how much Mark Zuckerberg is worth after Facebook Inc. sold 421.2 million shares valued for $38 each on Thursday.Not bad for a guy who just celebrated his 28th birthday Monday. Zuckerberg, who first showed up on Forbes'...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Sergey Brin, Social Media, Media Industry, Mark Zuckerberg
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Monday's Talk Shows
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of May 6 - 12 in PDF format TV listings for the week of May 6 - 12 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies CBS This...... -
State schools prep homegrown engineering, computer science talent for startups
Chicago's startup community wants to hire young people like Ravi Pilla.
As a high school student at the Illinois Math and Science Academy, Pilla and a few friends created a cloud-based music startup they later sold. Pilla, now a junior electrical...Tags: Invention and Innovation, Amazon.com Inc., Peter Thiel, YouTube, Colleges and Universities
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Pelican Products proves as durable as the storage cases it makes
The tales of survival almost strain belief.
There's the off-road endurance race car that rolled down a steep and rocky slope, but the drive team's gear was undamaged inside their plastic storage cases.
Then there's the military helicopter brought down...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Economy, Business and Finance, Technology, David Parker, Companies and Corporations
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Same Titanic but brand-new, built from scratch, billionaire says
What’s more exciting than James Cameron re-releasing “Titanic” in 3-D? When an even richer man – Australia’s Clive Palmer – tries to bring the ill-fated ship to life. By building a modern replica of it. The mining...
Tags: Google+, Australia, Manufacturing and Engineering, Shipbuilding, Charity
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Report: Cars of the Rich and the Famous
Autoblog.comIf you were one of the world's richest human beings, what kind of car would you own? The richest man in the world, Carlos Slim Helu (worth about $69 billion), drives himself to work in a Bentley Continental Flying Spur. MSRP: $300K. On the other hand,... -
Hopefully, someone might learn something
The Baltimore SunIn a New Yorker cartoon from thirty years ago, a man turns to another in a bar and asks belligerently, "Hopefullywise? Did I understand you to say hopefullywise?" There you have the hopefully brouhaha encapsulated. The Wrong People, the sloppy, trendy...Tags: The Happiest News!, Netherlands, Microsoft Corp., Facebook
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Google CEO Larry Page grilled in Oracle case over Java
Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page returned to the witness stand for nearly an hour in a San Francisco federal courtroom Wednesday to defend his company against allegations that its Android mobile software, which now powers more than 300 million...
Tags: Justice System, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Google Inc., Oracle Corp.
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Apr 18, 2012
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Apr 18, 2012
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