With her scathing e-mail on etiquette now circling the globe, stepmother Carolyn Bourne may soon be the world’s most famous monster-in-law. Bourne, 60, wrote to her future daughter-in-law Heidi Withers after the bride-to-be spent a weekend at the family’s home in Devon in April. In the e-mail, Bourne criticizes Withers for her “lack of grace”
Continue reading …Return of the Meat-Eaters: Many Lapsed Vegetarians Become ‘Ethical Omnivores’
June 30, 2011 No CommentAre you a vegetarian? Stats say you’re probably a woman. You probably bid adieu to four-legged creatures for ethical reasons. And you’ll probably be a carnivore again in no time. In 2005, a CBS News study found that ex-vegetarians outnumber current vegetarians by a ratio of three to one, suggesting that 75% of vegetarians lapse.
Continue reading …We can’t even keep our national parks from falling apart, according to a new report this week from the National Parks Conservation Association. The group wants the U.S. government to toss more cash their way—at a time when funding for parks is getting slashed more often than tires during a riot—to save the parks and
Continue reading …On the day when many wondered whether Casey Anthony might take the stand, Jose Baez opened testimony by calling her parents, yet again, to the stand. Casey’s parents, George and Cindy Anthony, and her brother, Lee, have all testified multiple times about the disappearance of Casey’s 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Cindy Anthony testified about having Caylee’s
Continue reading …Man Blames Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘The Marriage Ref’ For Breaking Up His Marriage
June 28, 2011 No CommentWell, at least the show can now be known for being more than a bizarre footnote in Jerry Seinfeld’s career. Howie Kohlenberg, who along with his wife Christine, appeared on the debut episode of The Marriage Ref, is claiming that the program is the reason their 14-year marriage ended. He alleges that she ditched him and
Continue reading …Earlier in Casey Antony’s murder trial, judge Belvin Perry, Jr. extended hearing hours and held sessions on Saturdays, hoping to move the trial along. It was worth a shot. Murder trials, especially high profile ones, take a long time. The trial of O.J. Simpson, perhaps the biggest legal circus of the last half century, took
Continue reading …Contrary to the stereotypical notion, girl bias or boy obsession isn’t limited just to Asia. A Gallup poll shows that such a mindset is prevalent in the U.S., too and has been for at least 70 years. The poll asked 1,020 American adults, if they could have only one child, which gender they would prefer.
Continue reading …NewsFeed’s Feifei Sun rounds up the brilliant and bizarre from this week in fashion. Usher’s got his eye on Pippa. The R&B star wants the younger Middleton to model his lingerie line. “I don’t think there’s a more beautiful, more stunning, more talked-about woman in the world at the moment,” he said. Well played, Usher.
Continue reading …A new government survey shows that Americans are getting more free time but using it for leisure, reports the Wall Street Journal. This means Americans are working less, sleeping more, and watching a lot of television. (LISTS: Top 10 Reality TV Shows) On average, Americans age 15 or older spent about three hours and 58
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Kim Kardashian put her fashionista abilities to good use in New York City Friday as a guest judge on the upcoming ninth season of ‘Project Runway.’ Contestants were instructed to put together an outdoor, public runway with models on stilts. (June 24)
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