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House, heart for sale Denver - For $600 000, a 40- to 60-year-old man can buy a house in a trendy Denver neighbourhood that comes complete with a bride. Deborah Hale, 48, has placed an ad on eBay offering to sell her home in Denver to a compatible man who wants to spend his life with her. She also has her own website outlining the proposal. "I'm trying to come up with a creative way to meet more men and hopefully meet the man of dreams," Hale said on Wednesday. "There's a lot of fabulous women out there between 35...
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Just reported, Anyone heard more?
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Subject: heartwarming holiday story I was stressed out and not thinking very fondly of the Christmas season. It was dark, cold, and wet in the mall parking lot as I was loading my car up with gifts that I felt obligated to buy. I noticed that I was missing a receipt that I might need later. So mumbling under my breath, I retraced my steps to the mall entrance. As I was searching the wet pavement for the lost receipt, I heard a quiet sobbing. The crying was coming from a poorly dressed boy of about 12 years old. He...
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Alec Baldwin Criticizes Gov. Bush Over Election Reform By Brendan Farrington Associated Press Writer TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Actor Alec Baldwin was at the Capitol on Wednesday, much to the surprise of Gov. Jeb Bush. "He had promised he would leave the country if my brother got elected," Bush said during a stop in Orlando. "Well he's back, I guess. We'll welcome him to Tallahassee." But Baldwin disputed that he said he'd leave the country if George W. Bush were elected. "I never made that statement, but you can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going ...
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Naked Air Commentary by Thomas L. Friedman for The New York Times In the wake of the attempted bombing last week of the American Airlines flight from Paris by a terrorist nut with explosives in his shoe, I'm thinking of starting my own airline, which would be called: Naked Air. Its motto would be: "Everybody flies naked and nobody worries." Or "Naked Air — where the only thing you wear is a seat belt." Think about it. If everybody flew naked, not only would you never have to worry about the passenger next to you carrying box cutters or exploding ...
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Sox sale nears final inning by Scott Van Voorhis Saturday, December 15, 2001 A high-stakes battle to buy the Boston Red Sox could wind up by the end of next week, with new bids due Monday and a key meeting of the team's minority shareholders set for Thursday, when a winning bidder could emerge. Heading into their 11 a.m. meeting Thursday, the Sox' limited partners - who control 47 percent of the team and can veto any bidder - may be presented with one or as many as four Sox contenders to choose from when they gather at Fenway ...
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For journalists, a question of balance By Ellen Goodman, Globe Staff, 12/6/2001 THE END of the 19th century, when African-Americans were strung like ''strange fruit'' from Southern trees, The New York Times required every story about lynching to include a quote from a segregationist justifying the hanging. At some point, the absurdity of that journalistic ''evenhandedness'' struck home to the editors. Murder is not a story with ''another side.'' I mention that footnote to my profession's history because I've always found something odd in the notion that ''balance'' is a seesaw, outfitted with exactly two seats for opponents whose views ...
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December 05, 2001 Cloning to save lives, not to create them For centuries, the birth of modern scientific medicine was stalled by an ethical dilemma. The secrets to what made people live and die were waiting to be discovered, but the Roman Catholic Church considered the mutilation of a corpse, even in the interest of medical discovery, to be a grave sin. The ethicists of the time may even have argued that autopsies would constitute a step onto some kind of slippery slope. It did. Those who took that step, first in secret, then in defiance of church edicts, slipped ...
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Geraldo in the No Spin Zone Friday, November 16, 2001 This is a partial transcript from The O'Reilly Factor, November 15, 2001. BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the second Personal Story segment tonight, brand new Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera. We're sending him to Afghanistan, along with his brother, producer Craig Rivera. Geraldo joins us now. You know, we got a lot of nasty letters when they -- it was announced that you were hired over here. GERALD RIVERA, FOX WAR CORRESPONDENT: No love letters? O'REILLY: We got a couple, but the bad outweighed the good. Why do you think that ...
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By SETH HETTENA Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO - Studies exploring the effects of specific foods on the brains of animals found that diets rich in spinach and blueberries may help stave off age-related declines in rats' mental abilities. Rats fed a diet rich in spinach reversed a normal loss of learning that occurs with age, according to a study by researchers at the University of South Florida. The study was presented at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting in San Diego this week. Rats fed a normal diet that contained 2 percent freeze-dried spinach learned to associate the ...
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