One of my favorite movies is National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. There is one particularly funny scene in which a squirrel has hitched a ride inside the Griswold house sequestered in...
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After years of making its users feel insecure about viruses and worms, Microsoft has finally achieved what was until now hardly imaginable: making the companies dedicated to its own...
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General Motors, long inept at making cars with quality ratings that might persuade Americans to buy them, now finds itself too broke to install solar power.
But it has made a...
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We all know the story of the rube who gets sucked into a game of Three-Card Monte on Fifth Avenue and watches his bets disappear in the pockets of the quick-handed sharpie at the folding...
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With a surprising salvo of bravado, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked the provocative question, Does Iran have a right to exist?
In the startling speech, he...
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The Bush administration has finally turned in its battle against nuclear proliferation to the one Western weapon that is apparently downright omnipotent:The Almighty Dollar.
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As Shiites and Sunnis continue to knock each other off in Iraq and rant against the West, the search for a new Muslim sect has become urgent.
The revolutionary spin off, to...
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I tore open yet another long white envelope and pulled out the contents, the predictable Still Nifty at Fifty stared at me from the gaudily coloured card with its inane cartoon face...
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As we contemplate the scary rituals and costumes of Halloween, we cannot help but reflect that the everyday world has become so spooky it makes the night of goblins and witches seem...
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Well, think about it. The agglomeration is only so big, right? Nothing leaves, pretty soon theres no room for anything new.
Youve got a point there. So?
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