Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes

Gov. Sarah Palin proves to be good to her friends and unforgiving to her enemies."Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes Heath Family, via Associated Press The Wasilla City Council, with Sarah Palin, the future governor and vice-presidential nominee, at the...

107-Year-Old Man Leads High School Alumni Parade

He's 107 years old, and leading the Phillips Academy parade in his golf cart. Let's hear it for C. Yardley Chittick, who was a schoolboy with Humphrey Bogart."C. Yardley Chittick sneaked off school grounds with...

Nigerian teen to take zero-gravity trip

"Nigerian teen Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them and does homework by candlelight. On Saturday, Felix will soar above all that from the...

iPods and "soft drinks" to blow up planes?

"For once, my son has been reading the news more closely than me. He and my wife and I were chatting online today which is the only way we can talk since she is in Calcutta (Kolkata), he in college in America, and I am in Singapore. She told him she met one of his old...

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