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Meet Mikey Hicks, He’s A Boy Scout, 8 Years Old And He’s On The Terror Watch List (New York Times)
The Transportation Security Administration, under scrutiny after last month’s bombing attempt, has on its Web site a “mythbuster” that tries to reassure the public.
Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy.
Buster: No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.
“Meet Mikey Hicks,” said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and [...]
STORY OF THE DAY: Help Haiti – Bill Clinton Asks For Your Support (Fox News Video)
President Bill Clinton, in an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, said the next 10 days are the most critical for the rescue efforts in Haiti after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake rocked the country Tuesday.
For “three or four more days, we can still find people alive,” Clinton, the U.N. envoy to Haiti, said Wednesday. [...]
STOP FUNDING BIG BANKS; COMMUNITY BANKS NEED YOUR SUPPORT: MOVEYOURMONEY.INFO
JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, a few friends were having dinner wondering what personal actions they could take to help limit the power of the big banks and create a more sane, stable financial system. How, they wondered, could they help end the era of Too Big To Fail? The financier at the table recommended that everyone [...]
GEORGIE ANNE GEYER: AMERICA’S HOLIDAY BLUES (Yahoo! News/Uxpress)
There’s a strange mood in the country this holiday season, a mood we would do well to study if we are to travel the right roads in the years to come.
On the one hand, far too many of us are depressed over real losses and genuine fears. Polls show repeatedly that only about 33 percent [...]
Confessions of an Underwater Homeowner (Wall Street Journal)
One in four borrowers is underwater on a mortgage in the U.S.
Count me among them.
My family’s modest, suburban New Jersey house is now worth about $30,000 less than our current balance. We never dreamed of walking away, but the idea of “strategically defaulting,” is something we had to at least consider. Many others have, too, [...]
One Student’s Story: “How To Beat The High Cost of Tuition, I’m Living In My Van” (Salon)
I was lying on the floor of my van where the middle pilot chairs used to be, trying to hide from view. This is it, I thought. They know. I’m going to get kicked out of Duke.
Moments before, I had been cooking a pot of spaghetti stew on top of a plastic, three-drawer storage container, [...]
America’s Best Place to Raise Your Kids (Yahoo!)
You’d think that the character of a village that grew from 12,000 to 60,000 residents in less than 40 years might have changed with the population. But young families move into Tinley Park, Ill., a proud village 25 miles southwest of Chicago, for the same reason that Edward and Emily Zabrocki chose to raise their [...]
The New Art of Alimony (Wall Street Journal)
Paul and Theresa Taylor were married for 17 years. He was an engineer for Boston’s public-works department, while she worked in accounting at a publishing company. They had three children, a weekend cottage on the bay and a house in the suburbs, on a leafy street called Cranberry Lane. In 1982, when they got divorced, [...]
SWINE FLU UPDATE: My Ordeal With Swine Flu (U.S. News & World Report)
Like most people, I've been following the news about the H1N1 swine flu with some concern. Unlike most people, however, I've spent years interviewing doctors.
via My 10-Day Ordeal With the Swine Flu – US News and World Report.
SAY IT AIN’T SO: DISNEY TO RE-IMAGINE MICKEY. NO MORE ‘MR. NICE MOUSE’. WHAT’S NEXT? MINNIE THE HOOKER?
For decades, the Walt Disney Company has largely kept Mickey Mouse frozen under glass, fearful that even the tiniest tinkering might tarnish the brand and upend his $5 billion or so in annual merchandise sales. One false move and Disney could have New Coke on its hands.
Now, however, concerned that Mickey has become more of [...]
