Hot on the heels of news of the Ford-Toyota deal , we’ve got word of a far stranger electric car pact: General Motors has agreed to a deal to co-develop cars with LG Group, the Wall Street Journal reports. The consumer electronics company already makes the battery for the Chevy Volt,…
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New Yorkers have long prided themselves on their discerning taste. And now a few of them are taking to the internet to share their opinions on the city’s prison system. The online reviews site Yelp–more commonly a place to find out what users think of local bars and restaurants–has become an outlet for critical evaluations of
Continue reading …Stay put, young man: fewer Americans are moving to new places than any time since the Great Depression
August 25, 2011 No CommentPioneers heading west across the Rockies. Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl for California. African-Americans migrating from the rural south to the urban north. Retirees from the northeast opting for the sunnier climates of Florida or Arizona. For centuries, the idea of picking up and moving in search of a better–or just a more comfortable–life has
Continue reading …Companies like to push the envelope with their ads. Sometimes the gamble works, sometimes it doesn’t, and sometimes, like in the case of a new advertising campaign from Nivea, the whole thing turns into a fiasco. Nivea, a company that specializes in skin-care products, recently released a print ad that it has since pulled. How
Continue reading …Three Arkansas men, who served 18 years in prison for the brutal murder of three boys, are going home. “I’m just tired,” Jesse Misskelley Jr. told reporters. “This has been going on for 18 years. It’s been an absolute living hell.” The release of the “West Memphis Three” came after a complex and confusing plea
Continue reading …Bill Clinton, once famous for his larger-than-life appetite, is now the poster child for a vegan lifestyle. Back in the 1990s, the former president was known–and even mocked–for his fast-food cravings. In a “Saturday Night Live” skit, the late Phil Hartman, playing Clinton, is shown jogging three blocks to McDonald’s to mix it up with
Continue reading …A load of bull semen packed in liquid nitrogen caused a scare and closed a highway near Nashville on Tuesday after it fell out of a Greyhound bus. Motorists called emergency services after seeing the large, steaming canisters and smelling a foul odor, reports WKRN . The highway was reopened after…
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Tory MP for Corby claimed earlier in week that ‘morons’ had threatened her children by email Police have arrested a 61-year-old man over online threats against Tory MP, Louise Mensch. The Metropolitan police said the man was arrested in Gloucester in connection with an investigation into “malicious communication and threats made via email and a social networking site”. Mensch claimed earlier this week that “morons” had threatened her children by email. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the police central e-crime unit and officers from the Palace of Westminster had been involved in the arrest. The spokesman said: “The 61-year-old was arrested at an address in the Gloucester area on suspicion of sending malicious communication. “He has been taken into custody at a Gloucestershire police station where he remains.” Mensch has three children and was elected as MP for Corby last year. On Monday she claimed that her children had been threatened by email and said she had passed the message to police in the House of Commons. She added: “I don’t bully easily, kids. Or in fact at all.” Louise Mensch Crime Social networking guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Tory MP for Corby claimed earlier in week that ‘morons’ had threatened her children by email Police have arrested a 61-year-old man over online threats against Tory MP, Louise Mensch. The Metropolitan police said the man was arrested in Gloucester in connection with an investigation into “malicious communication and threats made via email and a social networking site”. Mensch claimed earlier this week that “morons” had threatened her children by email. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the police central e-crime unit and officers from the Palace of Westminster had been involved in the arrest. The spokesman said: “The 61-year-old was arrested at an address in the Gloucester area on suspicion of sending malicious communication. “He has been taken into custody at a Gloucestershire police station where he remains.” Mensch has three children and was elected as MP for Corby last year. On Monday she claimed that her children had been threatened by email and said she had passed the message to police in the House of Commons. She added: “I don’t bully easily, kids. Or in fact at all.” Louise Mensch Crime Social networking guardian.co.uk
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