Resident an eyewitness to history (The Pekin Daily Times) Times correspondent PEKIN - Inez Dumville contends that's it is much easier to remember history when you've actually lived through it. us.rd.yahoo.com
Eco(nomy) Savvy (Tucson Weekly) Times are tough—so buy holiday gifts for loved ones at these amazing independent stores us.rd.yahoo.com
Wave of the Future (Hospitality Design) With a degree from NYU's Stern School of Business and a job as a portfolio manager and analyst at a prominent hedge fund, Matthew Abramcyk seemed to be set in his career. But that wasn't the case. "I was disenfranchised," remembers the Manhattan native. us.rd.yahoo.com
Film 'fuels' green energy (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) "Fuel" is a very funny, very angry flick: Its fate is in local hands. us.rd.yahoo.com
Performance of A Tuna Christmas flops on American Stage (Creative Loafing Tampa) By Mark E. Leib It's not often that I consider walking out of a play at intermission, but A Tuna Christmas at American Stage is so relentlessly stupid, I almost convinced myself to skip the second act. Almost but not quite -- because I was there to review the whole show, after all, and couldn't be sure that there wouldn't be redeeming moments in its latter half. As it turned out, I could've ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Caption Contest No. 23 | Finalists: It's a bull market on humor (The Columbus Dispatch) As the financial markets dive into the dumper, sometimes an investor can only chuckle. us.rd.yahoo.com
Fragments Of My Fickle Mind (Dexter Daily Statesman) It is my thinking that the chain of habit has enslaved more people than any dictator ever did. Habits control the mind, leading to a belief that the body is incapable of following a course of proper procedure. Good habits make us. Bad habits break us. us.rd.yahoo.com
GIG GUIDE (Macon Telegraph) Justin Townes Earle us.rd.yahoo.com
Imaginative 'WALL-E' leads new-release DVDs (Knoxville News Sentinel) n "WALL-E" (G, 97 minutes): Set in a future where Earth has become covered in trash and swept by dust storms and where the only wildlife is the cockroach, "WALLE" refers to our hero: a Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth class. He has been left behind to toil endlessly in the shadow of the planet's rubbish skyline. us.rd.yahoo.com
Chatterly U: Academia's Yarn Ball of Excellence (Washington Post) It's the time of year when high school seniors are applying to colleges. And that can mean only one thing: college visits, those trips eager students take with Mom and/or Dad to scope out universities. Here's a transcript of one college presentation I attended recently. us.rd.yahoo.com
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