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Pine-Sol Lady Gets Her Prank On – It’s Hysterical
In a new line of commercials for the pine scented super cleaner male volunteers are chosen to come in, use the product while listing its virtues. As they are cleaning and musing about the many, many uses of Pine-Sol, long time spokesperson Diane Amos jumps from a life sized poster of herself. As […]
Tsunami: How to help the relief effort
Asia’s disaster has galvanized not just governments and international organizations but millions of ordinary people, who want to give anything from money to mosquito nets to those in need. Here’s a list of who’s doing what, and how to contact them: AID AGENCIES International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies A major relief provider and one of the few groups helping people trace lost family members
JAPAN: The Girl from Outside
Demure, with downcast eyes, displaying a modesty beneath which lies tempered steel, 24-year-old Michiko Shoda last week crossed the blue moat surrounding the Imperial Palace. Behind her lay the roaring, garish city of Tokyo, with huge advertising balloons adrift above the rooftops
Libya’s Dead and Missing: The Cost of Reconquest
The smell of decaying bodies hangs over the rows of loosely packed sand as the caretaker moves through the cemetery on Ajdabiyah’s southern edge.
Miss. Mom Dies Saving Kids From Tornado
Miss. Mom Dies Saving Kids From Tornado More than two days after a massive tornado tore across 17 Mississippi counties, Yazoo City resident Sherry Carpenter is still overwhelmed by the loss. Her three grandchildren were in this house when the tornado picked it up and smashed it to the ground. Their mother, 30-year-old Nikki Bradshaw […]
Island DIY: Kauai residents don’t wait for state to repair road
Their livelihood was being threatened, and they were tired of waiting for government help, so business owners and residents on Hawaii’s Kauai island pulled together and completed a $4 million repair job to a state park — for free. Polihale State Park has been closed since severe flooding destroyed an access road to the park and damaged facilities in December. The state Department of Land and Natural Resources had estimated that the damage would cost $4 million to fix, money the agency doesn’t have, according to a news release from department Chairwoman Laura Thielen.