SALT LAKE CITY – Yolanda Gomes works long hours at her food cart, “La Favorita,” parked down the road from a truck stop near Interstate 215, earning as little as $50 a day. It’s a better life, she says, than the one she had in Michoacán, Mexico. Gomes has lived …
Read More »Scientists Create Artificial Black Hole in Lab
The mysterious properties of black holes can be recreated on a tabletop, scientists now reveal. Solving mysteries concerning black holes could yield key clues toward a “theory of everything” that unites how we conceive of all the natural forces. Black holes rank among the greatest enigmas of the universe. Scientists …
Read More »Neverland: Auction Will Go Forward
Neverland: Auction Will Go Forward | ‘Hooker Ashley’ Isn’t On Itunes | Is Celebrity Guru Ailing?; Snoop Dogg’s Many Lives Neverland: Auction Will Go Forward No matter what you heard or what was said, issued or spun Thursday, here is the real story about Neverland: It is still in foreclosure …
Read More »Be Patient
I know this won’t come as a surprise to a lot you, but when I was a kid, I was notoriously impatient. It drove my mother and father nuts. I really was that kid in the back seat, yammering, “are we there yet?” The difference was, I’d keep asking it …
Read More »Fed Up Minority Families Turn to Homeschooling
It’s the first day of school for teacher Joby Dupree, but she already knows her students very well. The pupils — 12-year-old Sydney and 11-year-old twins Phillip and Andrew — are Dupree’s children. She has been teaching them at home for the past seven years. When talking about her kids’ …
Read More »Common Sense: Sticker Shock
How would you like to have your house on the market and the only promising bid you’re getting is for half your asking price? How would you like to be AT&T? Comcast is offering nearly $45 billion dollars for AT&T’s cable business. That might sound like a lot but it’s …
Read More »Talking Points: Ethics and the Chandra Levy Story
Well, a big ethical issue surrounding the missing woman Chandra Levy. That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. First off, I’m really tired of talking about the story, and I agreewith Dan Rather that some of us in the TV news business have been shamelessly exploiting the …
Read More »Bin Laden: The Anti-Spokesman
NEW YORK – Though he’s one of the mostrecognized people in the world, theTimexpeople wanted nothing to do with Usama bin Laden when a video showed him wearing what may have been one of their watches. Heineken certainly hasn’t jumped on reports he favors their beer. And his alleged enthusiasm …
Read More »Talking Points: Jackson Should Stay Home
Jesse Jackson wants to negotiate for the release of our military people being held in China and that is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. At first glance, I thought this was another Jane Fonda situation, as Jackson said this about the 10-day China stand-off. “I think our …
Read More »Chocolat, the Musical? Stranger Things Have Happened
Chocolat, the Musical?|Regis’ New ‘In-Law’|Anthony Quinn’s Last Stand| Tony Reunion| Tickling Our Monkeybone Chocolat, the Musical? Stranger Things Have Happened Could it be that Chocolat, the Lasse HallstromOscar-nominated film, is headed to Broadway? Hey, why not? Now that Mel Brooks‘ The Producersis a hit, I predict that movie execs will …
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