RP emerges as wellness haven

" Medical tourism is proving to be a super-bright region in our country’s darkening economic landscape. The country’s chief statistician warns that we are on the brink of a recession. If we do slip...

Planet Abell: The Citizen Journalist Arrives in Full

Reflections about citizen journalism from a 26 year Reuters veteran: "Remember the name Mark LaCroix.Lacroix, a guy who lives in Minneapolis, carried CNN and blew away local coverage for the first crucial 20 minutes of today's collapsed bridge story, proving compelling,...

Compete stats: Where do we spend our time--and register our identiies?

Susan Mernit has a great post about where who we trust our online identities to:"Jay Meattle's got a post --with data --reporting where Americans spend their time online. As you'd expect, MySpace, eBay, and Facebook are high on the list, proving the impact of social media and...

Gibson rules box office with $14.2 million `Apocalypto' debut

"LOS ANGELES - Mel Gibson's bloody epic "Apocalypto" debuted as the No. 1 weekend movie, proving the filmmaker still can deliver a winner despite his drunken-driving arrest and anti-Semitic rant last summer. "Apocalypto," a Disney release set among the extinct Mayan...

Rise of exotic degrees

"They have been derided as Mickey Mouse degrees, with little academic merit. But qualifications such as surf science and technology are riding the crest of the economic wave, according to Universities UK. Degrees in computer games technology, golf management, brewing and...

Thai to get 25 mil Baht for nude scene

"The buttocks of Thailand popular singer "Ta Ta Young" has caught the eyes of Hollywood, she was invited to star with the famous Nicholas Cage with an offered of 25 Million Baht. The singer has gone through casting and waiting to see whether this will clash with her concert...

RIVETING RIDES: GM lineup shines in test drives (Lansing State Journal)

" Barbara Wieland MILFORD - There is nothing that could compare to the joy of speeding a high-performance red Corvette convertible around a serpentine track at the General Motors Corp. proving grounds on an almost cloudless autumn day. Nothing, except maybe the rapture of...