NEW YORK — What word sums up 2009? How about “unfriend?” That’s the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook. Each year Oxford University Press tracks how the English language is changing and chooses a word [...]
November 17, 2009
PHOENIX — A high school librarian in Phoenix says a former student at the school returned two overdue books checked out 51 years ago, along with a $1,000 money order to cover the fines. Camelback High School librarian Georgette Bordine says the two Audubon Society books checked out in 1959 and the money order were [...]
November 15, 2009
Calling him the oldest tagging suspect they have ever captured, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 74-year-old Los Angeles man for allegedly putting “slap tags” on the inside of Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses. For the last seven months, deputies assigned to the Special Problems unit of the Sheriff’s Transit Bureau have been trying to [...]
November 12, 2009
A comet-chasing spacecraft swinging by Earth this week has snapped magnificent new images of our home planet. The new photos come from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, which will make its closest approach by Earth Friday at 2:45 a.m. EST (0745 GMT), during its third and final flyby past the planet. The Rosetta spacecraft’s [...]
November 11, 2009
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee Army reservist’s military identification earned him some street cred Tuesday, when he says four men who mugged him at gunpoint returned his belongings and thanked him for his service after finding the ID. The 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student said he was walking home from work about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday when [...]
November 10, 2009
Procter & Gamble announced in October that it will once again create and host a public restroom for the holiday season in New York City’s Times Square as a promotion for Charmin tissue. Last year’s installation was merely specially outfitted toilet facilities, but this year P&G will upgrade by hiring five bloggers (“Charmin Ambassadors”) to [...]
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November 19, 2009
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