New York City is number one again – this time they’re the first city in the U.S. to require major fast food restaurants to post the calorie content of all their menu items. The chains have had nutrition facts available for a long time, but now the calories are actually posted – prominently. Here’s an […]
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Vivid Pink
“Vivid pink” diamond sells for record $10.8 million HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) – A rare, 5-carat pink diamond was auctioned off for a record $10.8 million in Hong Kong on Tuesday, putting some shine back into the world’s rare and large stones market which was badly hit by the financial crisis. The stone, of a […]
Where Gay Marriage Is Legal
D.C. Joins Five States in Legalizing Gay Marriage Gay marriage continues to be a hot-button issue for many Americans. Whenever it’s legalized (or banned) anywhere in the world, searches immediately soar. In Washington, D.C., gay marriage was recently legalized, sparking tremendous Web interest. A lesbian couple who had been together for 12 years became the […]
What it was like growing up on Alcatraz
Betty Lou Vickery is one of the rarest people anywhere. She lived on Alcatraz Island when it was a military disciplinary barracks – before it became the most famous penitentiary in America. “There can’t be many people in the world still around who lived here then,” she said on a return visit this week to […]
Google search still working in China
SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc. triggered a false alarm Thursday by posting a notice that its search engine and several other services had been cut off from mainland China – a key market where the company has been locked in a high-profile battle over online censorship. But what initially looked like a dramatic development turned […]
WikiLeaks reveals sites critical to US security
In a disclosure of some of the most sensitive information revealed by WikiLeaks so far, the website has released a secret cable listing sites worldwide that the U.S. considers critical to its national security. The locations cited in the diplomatic cable from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton range from undersea communications lines to […]
Diff’rent Strokes Conrad Bain
Conrad Bain Conrad Bain was born February 4, 1923 in Lethbridge, Alberta Canada. Wryly humorous Canadian character actor Conrad Bain was all wrapped up in such athletic pursuits as hockey and speed skating when, in his junior year of high school, he suddenly became fascinated with acting. He studied at Alberta’s Banff School of Fine […]
Jennifer Aniston, hit by scam
Jennifer Aniston named as victim of salon fraud The owner of a Beverly Hills beauty salon was arrested on Wednesday on charges of stealing credit card information from Jennifer Aniston, Anne Hathaway and Liv Tyler and running up tens of thousands of fraudulent payments on their accounts. According to court documents in the case, a […]