HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L’ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his [...]
News Release - Amazon Worldwide 2006 Holiday Facts
(Includes www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.ca)
Amazon.com shipped more than 99 percent of orders in time to meet holiday deadlines worldwide.
On the peak day this season, Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 3.4 million units.
Amazon.com shipped to over 200 countries.
One of Amazon.com’s most remote shipments was Mission Impossible [...]
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Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th president and the only one never elected to nationwide office, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93.
“My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great [...]
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At a new breed of “Robin Hood” restaurants, diners pay what they can afford — and what they think the meal is worth
Deciding between the spicy peanut stew and the pesto chicken, or the squash soup and the avocado, chicken, lime soup, are not the only decisions tempting patrons at the One World Café [...]
[...] America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We’re looking at an explosion of productivity [...]
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By not wasting his money. Here is a great write up by the Guardian of Ingvar Kamprad Owner of IKEA.
He is famous for eating in cheap restaurants, flying economy and going on the bus. But yesterday Ingvar Kamprad - the reclusive billionaire founder of the Swedish furniture giant IKEA - took his reputation for [...]
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I will never complain about a pothole again!This is the Russian Federal highway, Moscow city to Yakutsk City.
The road doesn’t have asphalt surface, though it is a vital Federal highway.
Everytime it rains, the traffic flow gets paralized; these shots were made a few days before the traffic jam of 600 cars got stuck there. [...]
This is a list put together by the UK Paper, The Mirror, to find out the best way to keep going during the day. After lunch I know I’m not alone in feeling slugish and wanting to know when the day is going to be over. So I’m curious how effective these ideas [...]
Online daters, disappointed by potential partners lying about their age, weight or marital status, are turning to professional matchmakers to find love.
Rather than risk taking pot luck online, chief executives, entertainers and politicians are among those paying thousands of dollars to matchmakers to discreetly “headhunt” and vet the perfect partner.
“In the old days you had [...]
