Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove is a poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "United States Poet Laureate". She was the first, and to date only, African-American to be appointed since the po... Read more...
Over 40,000 Hotmail and MSN email addresses, along with passwords, have been discovered on a phishing Web site. Read about the incident here. You know those spam emails that ask you to provide your username/password credentials for your bank, email, Facebook, or otherwise? Well, one user on... Read more...
Based on the book by the famous Dr. Seuss. Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Who's, an almost mutated sort of munchkinlike people. All the Who's love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature... Read more...
Mumia Abu Jamal: Lydia Barashango - Presente! Lydia Barashango, 64, a nurse and social worker who was the sister of Mumia Abu-Jamal, died Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Maryland of breast cancer. Friends said she had been living in Baltimore. Mrs. Barashango was a strong defender of her brother, the P... Read more...
CLICK TO ENLARGE A middle-income family with a child born in 2010 can expect to spend about $226,920 to raise the child to age 18, according to a Department of Agriculture report. The cost grew 2 percent from last year, with the greatest share of the increase coming from transportation, child car... Read more...
Killin’ Them Softly is easily one of HBO’s best comedy specials, catching star Dave Chappelle at a career high in 2000 and with an abundance of hysterical, highly polished material. Taking his time, stretching concepts and bits like a master, Chappelle plunges into a wealth of anecdotes and ... Read more...
So what exactly is Fluoride? Well for the purpose of this article, there are two types, Sodium Fluoride and Calcium Fluoride Calcium Fluoride appears naturally in underground water sources and even seawater. Sodium Fluoride is a synthetic waste product of the nuclear, aluminium, and phospha... Read more...
You know the expression: Numbers don’t lie. And according to the Nielsen BDS report, Usher’s “Yeah” is the second most played record of the last 10 years with 416,267 spins. Unfortunately, the song was no match for Tim McGraw’s “Something Like That” with 487,343 rotations. Meanwhile... Read more...
A hero grandmother told how she was forced to break down the door of a stranded Eurostar train yesterday fearing for the lives of her two grandchildren trapped inside, struggling to breathe. Yvonne Lewis, 54, below, was among more than 2,000 British passengers stuck with hardly any food or... Read more...