Jose Molinar knew something wasn’t right. He hadn’t heard from his wife for a few hours, which was not sitting well with him.
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Do TV Commercials Make You Happier?
Human beings are innately trained to do certain basic things: Eat. Drink. And despise television commercials
The Obama Team’s Drink of Choice? Coke, Not Pepsi
In apparent homage to the new President, PepsiCo has plastered the sides of buses and bus stops in the nation’s capital with slogans like “Yes You Can,” “Optimismmmm” and “Hope.” In each poster, the letter “O” is inscribed with the redesigned Pepsi logo, a red, white and blue sphere that echoes the rising sun image used by the Obama campaign. It is not hard to interpret the message. Since 1984, Pepsi has been marketing itself as the hip, happening beverage of youth — “The Choice of a New Generation,” as its longtime slogan went
House of Cards: The Faces Behind Foreclosures
Jeff Wagoner is a bankruptcy attorney in Kansas City, Mo., with the brush-cut hair and clear eyes of a former Navy aviator. From his office in a tower on a hill, he can see miles of prairie and a world of hurt
Obama unveils budget blueprint
President Obama on Thursday unveiled a $3 trillion-plus budget that he says will halve the federal deficit by the end of his first term.
What To Do If You Get Laid Off
Employment consultant Martha Finney doesn’t pull any punches when she talks about layoffs. “The very first thing we should all do is just cop to the fact that it could be us,” she says
Fatah and Hamas: Heading for a Showdown in Lebanon
Stacks of portraits of Mahmoud Abbas stand unused, gathering dust in the office of his Fatah movement in Beirut’s Shatila Palestinian refugee camp. Posters of Abbas — president of the Palestinian Authority, leader of Fatah and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization — would normally hang in offices and on street corners throughout Lebanon’s 12 Palestinian refugee camps
‘Colonel’ from Pakistan wanted in Mumbai case
A Pakistani man using "colonel" as a title is one of about three dozen people wanted over November’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, but his connections with the Pakistani army have not been established, Indian prosecutors say. “This is all a matter of investigation,” special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told CNN Thursday when asked if India thought he had links to the Pakistani army. Neither is it clear whether the “colonel” belonged to the Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, which is blamed for the Mumbai siege, Nikam said
Arms dealer gets 30 years for conspiracy to kill Americans
A Syrian arms dealer was sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. federal prison for conspiring to sell weapons as part of a plot to kill Americans in Colombia, according to prosecutors
How a New Fleet of White House Choppers Spiraled Out of Control
One response of the Bush Administration to the attacks of 9/11 was to invade Iraq. Another was to order up a new fleet of hyper-secure helicopters to transport the commander-in-chief — out of concern that a president borne by the current generation of choppers could be cut off from the rest of the world.