Category: General

You’ve heard of the dog who ate homework, but what about the cat who unplugged the alarm clock?  These days, people are getting very creative when they don’t want to go to work.In CareerBuilder’s survey “Out of the Office,” more than one-third of U.S. workers say they played hooky from work over the last twelve…

For some reason, we have been watching very many World War II movies at my house lately; From Here to Eternity, Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan, and U-571 in the last two weeks alone.  And it occured to me that I don’t recall ever seeing a moving from the German point-of-view related to the greatest…

A Cornell University research group has made a sweet and environmentally beneficial discovery — how to make plastics from citrus fruits, such as oranges, and carbon dioxide.Cool!

30% Proportion of Americans who identify themselves as overweight or obese.64% Proportion of Americans who are overweight or obese, according to the Health and Human Services Department.Time, 7 March 2005, Pg. 25

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.Voltaire (1694 – 1778)

59% Proportion of 10th-graders in 1990 who said they expected to graduate from a four-year college.80% Proportion of 10th-graders in 2002 who said they expected to graduate from a four-year college, attributed to increased encouragement from teachers.Time, 21 February 2005, Pg. 19That increase in the number of kids who think that they will graduate from…

Few things in the world spread as much misery as a happy, smiling, well-adjusted pair of newly minted lovebirds.  Wherever you go — shopping malls, restaurants, target ranges — you’re likely to run into this evil breed, grinning, giggling and holding hands like a pair of lovestruck teenagers.  What is it about a happy couple…