The following is a press release by band called National Product, whose tour van was beset by mechanical difficulties, to put it mildly."Late Friday night while driving to Calgary the members in National Product...
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There was a story today in Advertising Age about how McDonalds is trying to re-brand the McJob as something that doesn't suck (good luck with that). So I went to Google to see what came up in their results for...
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This sounds like this was a huge deal. Any photos out there?"India has held celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of a landmark revolt against British rule. From New Delhi, Anjana Pasricha reports,...
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"The race starts on a clear, sunny Las Vegas spring day with the temperature in the mid to upper 80's.
The attitude of game was made at the very beginning of the race when it saw Paul Tracy pass pole winner Will Power and take the lead of the race from the very first...
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Will Power - Team Australia edges out series rookie Dutchman, Robert Doornbos - Minardi Team USA (yes, that Formula One team) to grab the pole and line up next to former series champion, Paul Tracy - Forsythe Championship Racing.
So tomorrow, the inaugural Vegas Grand Prix...
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"At the Calgary Airport, a display for a Blackfoot territory museum shows an effigy of a turning dancer in full regalia. I had a lot of time to stare at it while waiting for my bags to appear on the luggage...
created by carolsill | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 453 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
My gym offers a strip-aerobics class, but guys aren't allowed to watch. But that's not the issue here. Having once dated a girl with a pole-dancing history, I can attest to the athletic ability required to do it well. Hey, whatever gets people into fitness is fine by me, and...
"Teamwork Revisited
I have written about teamwork in past posts here, and it is a critical component in my keynote presentation Climb Your Everest. Since it is such an essential component to success on Mount...
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"From Indigenous oral histories, passed down through millennia, to the hostile accounts kept by colonial record keepers, a great deal of evidence exists to show that sex/gender variance and homosexuality were part of the fabric of early cooperative societies in the...
"Having your arrest show up on the news normally is poison for your career.
Unless you're an exotic dancer. It just makes the bad girl badder.
"A $10,000 a nite callgirl? That's what I was arrested for. You've seen me on the news, now have your picture taken with me," says...
"Everest conqueror Hillary returns to Antarctica
Tue Jan 16, 1:07 AM ET
WELLINGTON (AFP) - Mt Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary will return to Antarctica this week, nearly half a century after he led the first expedition to drive to the South Pole.
Hillary, famous for...
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"A team of British military personnel has become the first service members to visit the South Pole in nearly 100 years.
The team, comprised of soldiers from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, arrived at the landmark Wednesday, becoming the first British military...
"SOMETIME on Sunday, when the last putt falls in the last hole in the last round of the last PGA Tour event of the year, the numbers will fall into place at about the same time - $US1.35million ($1.72m) to the...
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"Previous positive predictions about the ozone-layer recovery by 2040 have now received a serious coup: a new study suggests that by 2040 there will be no ice left for polar bears.
Already considered among the...
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