The oldest profession in the book just got a new chapter. The German city of Bonn has come up with an idea that you don’t read about every day: it’s installed a meter to tax prostitutes for soliciting on its streets at a rate of six euros ($8.70) per night. And the authorities don’t see
Continue reading …After female members of a group organized by the Muslim American Society of New York were denied entry to certain rides at Playland in Rye, N.Y. because of head coverings, a fight erupted and 15 people were detained by police. The incident happened on Tuesday in the Westchester County park, where the society had organized
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Hey there, Kjerstin Gruys, you’ve got some spinach in your teeth. You can thank us later. Most twenty-something women spend quite a bit of time staring at themselves in the mirror — this NewsFeed writer included. It’s not because we’re vain, you see (well… at least not all of us are), but just like any
Continue reading …Thanks, Steve Jobs: Americans Rate Computer Industry Best, Government Worst
August 31, 2011 No CommentIt’s not really a fair fight when one sector is tasked with fixing the economy while the other’s job is to make iPads more fun. But a recent Gallup poll that measures public perception of different industries highlights the growing discontent that Americans have had with the federal government. Among the 25 sectors measured, the
Continue reading …And now: A public service announcement from NewsFeed. We are urging Justin Bieber to take good care of himself, because the preteen girl population cannot do without him. The reason for our concern is not because we feel like a parent to the pint-sized pop star (though he has grown up before our very eyes)
Continue reading …Liberal women may not agree with her politics, but they agree with her hairstyle. In fact, overly photogenic Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachann has a hairdo coveted by women in liberal districts from Los Angeles to New York. Bachmann’s bouncy, flowing locks, in a crisp copper color, are keeping stylists busy with clients who want the
Continue reading …You had better fear the mass exodus from Vancouver, B.C., now that the city has fallen from its perch atop a worldwide most livable city list. But where should everyone up and move to? Australia, for sure (and certainly not anywhere in the United States). Melbourne takes over the top spot in the annual Economist
Continue reading …Fireworks! Princesses! Acrobats in Hot Air Balloons! How to Spend $7.7 Million on a Wedding
August 30, 2011 No CommentIf that 1980′s movie Crocodile Dundee had been about the planning of weddings, the most famous line would surely have been changed to the following, “That’s not a wedding. THAT’s a wedding.” And Petra Ecclestone would have uttered it. But you know what? Once again, truth is indeed stranger than fiction. The 22-year-old daughter of
Continue reading …It’s never too early to teach your baby about style. Huggies has just introduced a camouflage diaper that will be sold at Walmart stores across the nation for the next three months. And the army print is more than decorative: for every package of diapers purchased, the company plans to donate a diaper to a
Continue reading …Imagine waking up as your alarm’s going off, reaching over and opening a window…and gazing out at terra firma in repose. No, not a poster of planet earth affixed to your window, but the real deal, viewed from your very own hotel suite, hundreds of miles above the planet’s surface. If a bunch of Russian
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