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Donna Goodison writers in today’s Boston Herald about an ingenious idea. “It could answer Boston’s pesky parking meter woes. Instead of fishing for a quarter to feed the meter – or jamming it – dial your cell phone. Representatives of a Finnish company were in the Boston area this week […]
Lakshmi Mittal had a good year. He made $19 billion in profits from his, the world’s largest steel company, by acquisitions of other mills. Forbes gave details about this $25B Rich Dude. “Mittal’s Wharton-educated son, Aditya, is the group’s president and chief financial officer. But it was Mittal’s other child, […]
Carla M. Collado writes in today’s Boston Herald: “The woman behind the striped bikini silhouette that launched millions of iPod sales says she sees herself everywhere but still can’t afford one of the digital tune toys. Mandy Coulton, 26, a dancer and nanny from Los Angeles, was paid $1,500 to […]
“The magazine should be called ‘Brandon,’ after the new editor. Jane doesn’t exist. Jane has left the building,” says Robin Steinberg, director of print services for Publicis Groupe’s MediaVest…”I will definitely monitor to understand the audience’s reaction,” she adds. Today’s Wall Street Journal weighed in: Tradition says that magazines named […]
In May a New York television reporter who apparently thought he was off the air lit into two men who had intruded on his shot, broadcasting a word-bomb to the five boroughs. From the New York Times Style section July 31 “This month a card player at the World Series […]
Jackie Mason on his least favorite coffee shop, Starbucks. “You want coffee in a regular coffee shop, they’ll give you all the refills you want until you drop dead. You can come in when you’re 27 and keep drinking coffee until you’re 98, and they’ll start begging you: “Here, You […]
Esquire Magazine has begun arriving in my mailbox, and I am usually impressed with their ribald mixture of anecdotes, intriguing photos and plain common sense. In this month’s Seven Most Remarkable Things about Culture, they included this tale about the world’s most famous blond. “She was wearing a diaphanous, totally […]
Famed for the biggest trees in the world, Sequoia National Park is now No. 1 in another flora department: marijuana growing, with more land carved up by pot growers than any other park. Joe Robinson wrote about this in the LA Times. “Parts of Sequoia, including the Kaweah River drainage […]
An estimated 5,500 people turned out at the Richmond International Raceway in hopes of getting their hands on one of the 4-year-old Apple iBooks offered for $50 apiece recently. The Henrico County school system was selling 1,000 of the computers to county residents. New iBooks cost between $999 and $1,299. […]
A few years ago, cities wanted to be wired. Now it’s all about being wireless. Tempe is at the forefront of what is going to be the next big thing in municipal oneupmanship: Making your entire city a WiFi hot spot. Tom Gibbons writes in the East Valley Tribune yesterday. […]
