In the late ’90s, software entrepreneur John Zitzner was pretty close to being bankrupt.
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Summer Jobs Make a Comeback, Thanks to the Stimulus
Thomas Hollister Singleton wants a car. Specifically a Dodge Challenger, black. And while it will be several years before Singleton will be able to get behind the wheel of a vehicle — he’s only 14 years old — he is hoping to start saving up with the money he makes this summer working in his first job: helping to clean and maintain classrooms at his school in Strayhorn, Miss
Iran’s supreme leader to speak at site of crackdown
Iran’s supreme leader will deliver a sermon Friday at Tehran University, just days after a bloody crackdown at the school, according to a statement from the pro-government Basij militia. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will give his sermon during Friday prayers. It will be closely watched for a sign of how the government plans to resolve the stalemate over the country’s recent presidential elections.
Colin Powell, foot soldiers battle America’s dropout ‘catastrophe’
Willie Thornton is on a rescue mission.
Reports say four stabbed at Toronto-area school
Four people reportedly have been stabbed at St. Joseph’s High School in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada
Wish Fulfillment? No. But Dreams (and Sleep) Have Meaning
Dreams may not be the secret window into the frustrated desires of the unconscious that Sigmund Freud first posited in 1899, but growing evidence suggests that dreams — and, more so, sleep — are powerfully connected to the processing of human emotion. According to new research presented last week at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Seattle, adequate sleep may underpin our ability to understand complex emotions properly in waking life. “Sleep essentially is resetting the magnetic north of your emotional compass,” says Matthew Walker, director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab at the University of California, Berkeley.
Is Facebook Putting a Damper on School Reunions?
Who got fat, who got hot, and is that old crush of mine still single? Whatever happened to that weird kid with the hair? Wait, am I the one that got fat?
Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class
For eight years, Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain so horrible, it brought her to her knees. The pain, along with diarrhea, vomiting and fever, made her so sick, she lost weight and often had to miss school. Her doctors, no matter how hard they tried, couldn’t figure out the cause of Jessica’s abdominal distress.
Fired and behind bars, a teacher still gets paid
Former teacher Charlene Schmitz is behind bars in a federal detention center in Tallahassee, Florida, serving 10 years for using texts and instant messages to seduce a 14-year-old student. She has been fired from her job as a reading teacher at the high school in Leroy, Alabama
The Hangover: A Bro-Magnon Bromance
You want to make a comedy about guys who learn the true meaning of bromance on a horrible weekend in Vegas, but you can’t spend a lot of money on talent.