"Eric Clapton, arguably the greatest living rock guitarist, wrote a heart wrenching song about the death of his four year old son. He fell from a 53rd-story window. Clapton took nine months off and when he returned his music had changed. The hardship had made his music...
created by gtatler | 4 years ago 235 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Men have been given permission to show off their legs at an Essex golf club for the first time in 113 years."Members of Frinton Golf Club were previously required to wear knee-length socks with shorts. But now committee members have relaxed the rule and men can wear short...
created by lotis | 4 years ago 299 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
If you had the time, you could write thousands of eye-opening money-and-politics stories using the information that lives on OpenSecrets.org. And many professional journalists do just that -- CRP was cited in the news more than 3,000 times last year. But why leave...
created by Albert Milliron | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 425 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
The UK has been slow in adopting the tipping habit and just as it does we find our restaurants (including some big chains) undermining confidence in the tipping culture by exploiting the staff - essentially taking...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 254 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
On Saturday night in Vegreville, Alberta, the RCMP shot and killed a man after he led officers on a high-speed car chase and then refused to put down a loaded shotgun. "Mounties shot and killed a shotgun-toting man, after he reportedly led police on a high-speed chase last...
created by julianw | 4 years ago 362 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
" 36 views Jul 9, 2008 Collision Course: Apple Mobileme vs Microsoft Live Mesh Microsoft and Apple have been fighting each other for the public perception in the Innovation Space, Apple has been in the front, putting together ideas and services faster...
It was a mission that began over 30 years ago, and still continues in a very real way today - Apollo 15's moon landing mission. In 1971, two astronauts spent three days on the surface of the moon, collecting data and most importantly - lunar surface material. 37 years later,...
The differences between the Labour and Conservative parties in the UK have become increasingly blurred in the last 15 years. But yesterday David Cameron, the Conservative leader who is leading the charge to bring...
created by Dave Keating | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 363 views | 3 recommendations | 1 comment
I never thought I would become interested in the old fashioned subject of agriculture but as I learn more about the costs of food logistics and the effects of industrial agriculture I am thinking more about the...
created by mtippett | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 869 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
"By Steve Gerace Mount Shasta Area Newspapers Sun Jul 06, 2008, 12:44 PM PDT Story Tools: Email This | Print This Mount Shasta, Calif. - Smokey skies cleared the morning of July 4, 2008, as if...
A common-sense study with the expected common-sense results: "King and his colleagues evaluated almost 16,000 men and women who were between the ages of 45 and 64 when the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities...
created by azer | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 325 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Vegetarians beware. Those that eat lots of any kind of specific food might be in danger of too much or too little of one chemical or another. After all in the end that's all that food is - a combination of...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1146 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments