100 Dollar Bill and Other Money Gets Plastic Surgery
(photo.newsweek.com) - The iconic images of presidents–the ones printed on our money–are timeless. Or are they? Rather than staying the same, the members of America’s honorable legion look like a fine wine: better with age. They appear cleaner, sharper, and, well, nipped and tucked. The Bureau of Printing More...
simple-tricks-to-remembering-names: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
(finance.yahoo.com) - Is it Joe or Jim? Sally or Susan? Here's some help.
Few situations will make you cringe more than standing next to someone you've met several times and drawing a blank on his or her name.
Plenty of business deals and romantic rendezvous have been foiled because someone failed More...
South Park Television show - South Park TV Show - Yahoo! TV
(tv.yahoo.com) - Satirical animated TV show "South Park" beeped out the words Prophet Muhammad and plastered its Wednesday episode with the word "CENSORED" after being issued a grim warning by a U.S. Muslim group.
The irreverent comedy show on Comedy Central also substituted a controversial image seen last week More...
Stupak: 12 Dems ready to oppose health care bill
(news.yahoo.com) - A congressman who has played a key role in the long-running health care debate says he and 11 other Democrats will vote against the overhaul unless a provision subsidizing abortion is removed.
Obama urges repeal of insurers antitrust exemption
(news.yahoo.com) - President Barack Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to strip health insurers of their decades-old exemption from federal antitrust laws - hardening his stand against the industry as he tries to revive his stalled health care overhaul.
Video - Universal Health Care Reality?
(cnn.com) - Is it just mean, or do all I hear is "distribution of wealth," "distribution of wealth," "distribution of wealth"?
Video - Battling pre-existing conditions
(cnn.com) - Unreal - having a friend that has Crohn's disease, it is good to know they have medical coverage. How in the world are people supposed to live any life at all if they can't get medical coverage...though, just to be fair, this lady falls into "pre-existing" likely because she didn't More...
Video - Living Life on Medicare
(cnn.com) - A different perspective on medicare coverage - one of the biggest arguments against the government running these social programs. Medicare is great for many people, but the fact that it actually encourages people to under-perform is undeniably ridiculous.
Happiest States Revealed by New Research
(news.yahoo.com) - Ever wondered if you'd be happier in sunny Florida or snow-covered Minnesota? New research on state-level happiness could answer that question.
Florida and two other sunshine states made it to the Top 5, while Minnesota doesn't show up until number 26 on the list of happiest states. In addition to rating More...
Iceland says goodbye to the Big Mac
(finance.yahoo.com) - REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- The Big Mac, long a symbol of globalization, has become the latest victim of this tiny island nation's overexposure to the world financial crisis.
Iceland's three McDonald's restaurants -- all in the capital Reykjavik -- will close next weekend, as the franchise owner gives in to falling profits caused by the collapse in the Icelandic krona.
Rivals High - Crazy finish at Michigan high school football game
(highschool.rivals.com) - Quick lesson in high school football. The game isn't over until the official blows the whistle on the final play.
Canton (Michigan) Plymouth High learned that the hard way earlier this month.
The school thought it had defeated Westland (Michigan) John Glenn when it blocked a last-second field goal attempt. But More...
Senate panel OKs health reform bill; Obama: 'We're not there yet'
(cnn.com) - The health care reform debate reached a new milestone Tuesday as a key congressional committee passed an $829 billion plan projected to extend coverage to an additional 29 million Americans.
The Senate Finance Committee's bill would subsidize insurance for poorer Americans, establish nonprofit health care cooperatives, and create health insurance exchanges More...
British graduate scores in sandwich-board job hunt
(news.yahoo.com) - LONDON (Reuters) – In a pinstripe suit, silk tie and polished shoes, David Rowe has all the trappings of a successful London city worker, except for one stark difference -- he is wearing a sandwich board that says "JOB WANTED."
NY dad told soldier-son killed in war , he wasn't
(news.yahoo.com) - BUFFALO, N.Y. – An Army unit is reviewing how it delivers information to families after a call to a western New York couple led them to believe their son had been killed in combat.
Ray Jasper of Niagara Falls said he, his wife, Robin, and their extended family spent four hours More...
Who needs a Phillies foul ball?
(abclocal.go.com) - During Phillies' Tuesday night sellout, a touching family moment turned into comic relief and a video that is drawing national attention.
Cats Do Control Humans, Study Finds
(news.yahoo.com) - If you've ever wondered who's in control, you or your cat, a new study points to the obvious. It's your cat.
Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.
This meow is actually a purr mixed with a high-pitched cry. While people usually More...
Sears Tower unveils 103rd floor glass balconies
(news.yahoo.com) - Visitors to the Sears Tower's new glass balconies all seem to agree: The first step is the hardest.
The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's 103rd floor Skydeck. Their transparent walls, floor and ceiling leave visitors with the impression they're floating More...
What Supersonic Looks Like
(news.yahoo.com) - The breaking of the sound barrier is not just an audible phenomenon. As a new picture from the U.S. military shows, Mach 1 can be quite visual.
This widely circulated new photo shows a Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft participating in an exercise in the Gulf of Alaska June 22, 2009 More...
Obama Picks Camp David Church -- Not a D.C. Congregation
(news.yahoo.com) - For the past five months, White House aides and friends of the Obamas have been quietly visiting local churches and vetting the sermons of prospective first ministers in a search for a new - and uncontroversial - church home. Obama has even sampled a few himself, attending services at 19th More...
The Top 10 Most Thrilling Michael Jackson Moments
(new.music.yahoo.com) - As we mourn the loss of Michael Jackson, the undeniable King of Pop, who succumbed to cardiac arrest Thursday, we take a look back at some of top news making moments in his life.
RI closer to changing state name over slavery - Yahoo! News
(news.yahoo.com) - The country's smallest state has the longest official name: "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
A push to drop "Providence Plantations" from that name advanced farther than ever on Thursday when House lawmakers voted 70-3 to let residents decide whether their home should simply be called the "State of Rhode More...
Is this the most dangerous Wii accessory so far?
(videogames.yahoo.com) - Way back in 2006, there was a spate of media reports about new Wii owners damaging their TVs, prized furniture, elderly relatives and/or pets after losing their grip on a remote while playing Wii Sports Bowling. Nintendo, to its credit, took the problem in hand, first mailing out beefier remote More...
Iran's Ahmadinejad compares Obama to Bush
(news.yahoo.com) - TEHRAN (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama on Thursday of behaving like his predecessor toward Iran and said there was not much point in talking to Washington unless the U.S. president apologized.
(EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to More...
all-the-ways-your-laziness-is-costing-you-money
(finance.yahoo.com) - Brewer, abolitionist, social reformer and English Member of Parliament Sir Thomas Buxton said, "Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains." Poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge had an even darker take on the avoidance of work: "The love of indolence is universal, or next More...
Dead Sea peril: sinkholes swallow up the unwary
(news.yahoo.com) - Eli Raz was peering into a narrow hole in the Dead Sea shore when the earth opened up and swallowed him. Fearing he would never be found alive in the 30-foot- deep pit, he scribbled his will on an old postcard.
After 14 hours a search party pulled him from the More...
A stranger with a metal detector recovers the wedding ring of a couple married 68 years
(tampabay.com) - The grass around the bus stop bench was thick and overgrown, the long blades scratching Mary Marzec's legs. So with one brisk motion, the 88-year-old woman swatted the grass away from her knees — and accidentally flung her wedding ring into the field along Embassy Boulevard. The diamond-studded gold ring, More...
Watch Your Waistline While Dining Out
(health.yahoo.com) - Dining out....a favorite American past-time. Research, however, has shown that the more we dine out, the more likely we are to get accustomed to larger portions—and to potentially larger waistlines.
Air France tail found; US helps hunt black boxes
(news.yahoo.com) - Brazilian searchers found a large tail section from an Air France jet Monday, one of the biggest pieces yet recovered from wreckage that could help narrow the search for Flight 447's black boxes. A U.S. Navy team is bringing in high-tech underwater listening devices to detect pings from the data and voice recorders.
CNN fades in prime-time picture
(politico.com) - CNN, which just took home a Peabody Award for its 2008 election coverage, and dominated cable-news ratings on days when politics took center stage, is having trouble getting those viewers back on other nights.
Since Obama took office, CNN’s prime-time audience has dropped sharply, raising doubts about whether the network’s middle-of-the-road More...
$232 Million to the Winner in Winner
(buzz.yahoo.com) - In today's rough economic times, the dream of winning the lottery looms large. This week, somebody's dream came true. The lucky winner hasn't come forward yet, but various news outlets are reporting that someone in Winner, South Dakota (yes, that's the town's real name), has a ticket worth $232 million. The More...
Best Cities: It's All About Jobs
(realestate.yahoo.com) - What a difference a year makes. Last summer, the energy and finance sectors of the economy seemed to be thriving, and manufacturing was going strong.
Today, many cities are relying on government programs, universities and stalwart industries, such as health care, to bolster employment in a weak economy. Those factors appeared More...
Video - Chihuahua vs. cougar
(cnn.com) - Chiquita the chihuahua takes on a cougar with surprising results.
Rolle dreams big, works even harder - NFL
(sports.yahoo.com) - ORLANDO, Fla. – Myron Rolle came to the right place to turn his oversized dreams into reality.
Disney World, the place that proudly proclaims at its gates that it’s “where dreams come true,” has become the backdrop for a 22-year-old man who thinks at once of being a great football player More...
U.S. defense chief lauds soldier in pink boxers
(news.yahoo.com) - WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday praised an Army soldier in eastern Afghanistan who drew media attention this month after rushing to defend his post from attack while wearing pink boxer shorts and flip-flops.
How Adam Lambert *didn't* win American Idol - anatomy of Kris Allen's surprising win
(nydailynews.com) - His face was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. His name was on the back of Katy Perry’s cape. His performances were praised to high heavens by the judges, week after week.
And he just lost American Idol.
Right now, Adam Lambert probably feels the same way Tom Brady did after Super More...
If The Food Doesn't Kill You, The Waitress Will!
(dlisted.com) - Crystal Samuel had her eatin' shirt on and was all ready to get crazy on an All-Star breakfast at a Waffle House in Clarendon County, SC, but that shit never came! Crystal said that all her friends got their food and started eating, but she sat there waffle-less. That's when More...
Babies switched at birth meet 56 years later
(news.yahoo.com) - On a spring day in 1953, two baby girls were born at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in eastern Oregon. They grew up happily, got married, had kids of their own and became grandparents. Then last summer their lives were turned upside down.
Relatives grieve for Texas woman with flu who died
(news.yahoo.com) - This week should have been a joyous time for Judy Trunnell, a 33-year-old schoolteacher who had just given birth to a healthy baby girl.
But the friends and relatives whose cars lined the quiet street in front of her home in a quiet subdivision Tuesday instead were mourning her, the first American with swine flu to die.
Texas family quarantined after son contracts swine flu
(cnn.com) - As Hayden Henshaw was being rushed to the doctor's office after becoming ill, his father heard that his son's classmates had been struck with the deadly swine flu virus like the one sweeping through Mexico.
Mexico City on alert over swine flu outbreak
(cnn.com) - Mexican officials closed all schools Friday in the capital city in an effort to combat the swine flu virus that has killed dozens in Mexico and infected eight people in the United States.
Venezuela to give island to New Jersey
(cnn.com) - Venezuela will give a 300-acre island in the Delaware River to the state of New Jersey, the governor's office announced.
Global music sales tumble by 8%
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Global music sales fell by more than 8% to $18.42bn (£12.67bn) in 2008, according to the body that represents the record industry worldwide.
Jay Leno cancels 'Tonight Show' taping; in hospital with mystery illness
(nydailynews.com) - Late-night funnyman Jay Leno checked into a hospital with a mystery illness - and the Thursday and Friday "Tonight Show" tapings were canceled, his spokeswoman said.
Florida pharmacy says it wrongly prepped horse meds before match
(cnn.com) - A veterinary pharmacy in Florida acknowledged Thursday that it incorrectly prepared medication used to treat 21 horses who all died around the time of an international polo match last weekend.
Hitler's art attracts big sale prices
(cnn.com) - A painting by Adolf Hitler sold for almost $15,000 Thursday -- more than six times as much as expected.
South Carolina wildfire destroys homes near popular beach area
(google.com) - NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A coastal wildfire spread early Thursday toward one of the busiest tourist stretches in South Carolina after destroying more than three dozen homes.
Shepard Smith Uncensored: "We Are America, We Do Not F**king Torture!" (VIDEO)
(huffingtonpost.com) - Fox News viewers witnessed a rather incredible scene on Wednesday as anchor Shepard Smith and Fox contributor Judith Miller (of CIA leak infamy) repeatedly and passionately condemned torture, with Smith declaring at one point, "We are America, we don't torture! And the moment that is not the case, I want More...
Prosecutors say teen pirate was brazen ringleader
(google.com) - Prosecutors say Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse was not shy about making his presence known on the Maersk Alabama, brazenly tearing through the ship in a way that belied his young age and skinny, 5-foot-2 frame.
Texas Woman Breaks Neck, Back In Airplane Turbulence
(abcnews.go.com) - A woman who was paralyzed after disobeying warnings to remain in her seat during a turbulent flight over Texas has suffered the same type of catastrophic injuries as the late Christopher Reeve, according to her doctor.
Dealers prepare for worst if GM files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
(usatoday.com) - Experts are advising car dealers to start preparing themselves for the very real possibility that General Motors (GM) files for bankruptcy protection.
Swinging Stiletto: Stripper Attacked by Co-Worker with High Heel
(fox8.com) - AKRON, Ohio - The Akron Police Department is investigating a fight between two exotic dancers at a strip club -- that sent one of the entertainers to the hospital.
The victim, Jo Ellen Nolan, 52, says she recently lost her job so she accepted a friend's offer to take a position More...
Fatties cause global warming
(thesun.co.uk) - THE rising number of fat people was yesterday blamed for global warming.
Medical student to be arraigned in Craigslist slaying
(cnn.com) - A medical student will be arraigned Tuesday on a murder charge in Boston Municipal Court in connection with the death of a woman who may have been contacted through a Craigslist ad, police said.
YouTube - The Onion: 80 Percent Of Roommates Got So Drunk Last Night
(youtube.com) - A survey by the Shuttleworth Research Center found that the majority of male roommates ages 18-24 got wasted off their arses the previous evening. (Warning: Foul Language)
YouTube - Leprechaun CRAZY remix in Mobile Alabama
(youtube.com) - For your St. Patrick's Day enjoyment here is a favorite from my city, Mobile, Alabama.
German Fried Chicken: Tender, Juicy Obama Fingers Hit the Shelves
(spiegel.de) - A German frozen food company hopes to raise sales with a new product: Obama fingers. The tender, fried chicken bits come with a tasty curry sauce. The company says it was unaware of the possible racist overtones of the product. -- -- Completely believable considering Germans have NEVER exhibited racism or any sort.
Woman blinded by acid wants same fate for attacker
(cnn.com) - If she gets her way, her attacker will suffer the same fate. The 31-year-old Iranian is demanding the ancient punishment of "an eye for an eye," and, in accordance with Islamic law, she wants to blind Majid Movahedi, the man who blinded her.
Is Alfie a Dad at 13?
(thesun.co.uk) - The girlfriend of Alfie Patten yesterday rubbished claims the 13-year-old did not father her baby, insisting: "There has been no one else."
Dad at 13
(thesun.co.uk) - Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.
He told how he and Chantelle, 15, decided against an abortion after discovering she was pregnant.
