Last Sunday, my family and I experienced the nation's eighth deadliest tornado on record, in Joplin, Missouri. That morning, my wife, teenage granddaughter and I heard the warning sirens sounding as we enjoyed some fresh buttered biscuits with honey. We have lived here since 1968 and had experienced the drills repeatedly. This one was eerily different.
At a memorial service for tornado victims, President Obama promises to rebuild Joplin, Missouri.
Sam Bompas, an expert on gelatin, shows off his special molds for the royal wedding
Pete Wentz, Anthony Anderson, Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere and Emma Roberts share their scariest food experiences.
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After months and months of your cubicle walls contracting in on you like some kind of demonic fun house, it's finally time for that most coveted of reprieves: a vacation!
Here in New York, the big news this week has been Braylon Edwards, the thinks-he's-Wesley Walker-but-plays-like-Lam Jones Jets receiver who was arrested early Tuesday on drunken driving charges. The Big Apple's dueling talk radio stations are especially abuzz, with cries of Edwards' need to be suspended, to be released, to be traded, to be fined, to be signed by ABC's reality TV division and forced to Jell-O wrestle the guy who played Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter.
You've met his friends; he's met yours. Now it's time to add fruity cocktails and mix. Short of introducing your parents to his, combining your two sets of friends -- especially if they exist in very different worlds -- is one of the most nerve-wracking milestones in a relationship. And since summertime is party time, it's probably going to happen in the next month or so. Here are a few steps you can take to make sure it's not a complete disaster.
CNN's Brooke Anderson talks to a panel about what Lindsay Lohan's life will be in the slammer.
Her only glimpse of the outside world will be through a narrow six-inch window
It started with a sore throat. Then her chest was burning.
A blow to the head that at first seems minor and does not result in immediate pain or other symptoms can in fact turn out to be a life-threatening brain injury, experts tell CNN.
CNN's tracker shows voter reaction dipped when Sen. John McCain hammered Sen. Barack Obama in Nashville.
It took a little time, but my daughter and I have finally got our Sunday mornings down to a system. Just as the light starts inching through our blinds and the pigeons start making those peculiar pigeony noises and the hungover 22-year-olds start cursing whoever invented the Jell-O shot, Julia wakes me with words that come in a rush from her heart: "Did you buy me anything?" And "Are you going to buy me anything?" And my personal favorite: "Would you like a list of things you could buy me?"
I work in a large corporation where my department is mostly males. I usually bring my lunch or have lunch with either women from other departments or men who are at the same corporate title level. Lately, my boss has been asking me to lunch whether for my birthday or for annual review. Each time, I decline for scheduling conflicts.
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Moments after finishing a rousing speech to thousands of employees on her return to Kraft Foods last June, Irene Rosenfeld walked upstairs from the company's sprawling Northfield, Ill., headquarter...
They say you can't judge a book by its cover. All too often, you can't judge a food by its label, either.
There are really two Las Vegases. The first is that mythic patch of Nevada desert called the Strip, whose best-known monuments are a New York skyline and an Egyptian temple.
Two months before his mysterious death, police officer Glenn Turner told a close friend that he should "look at Lynn" if anything were to happen to him, according to a witness who testified Monday in the trial of Julia Lynn Turner.
If you've got an extra $45,000 to burn, you have a couple of appealing options. You can send an orphan to Harvard for a year. Or you can grab some pals and spend a night--that's one night--on Musha...
Fortune: The Wordupdated: Mon Mar 17 2003 00:01:00
While we do occasionally read books, we prefer book parties, so we crashed a slew of 'em recently. Most fascinating was Jim Rogers's soiree for Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor's Road Tr...
Fortune: Scare Packagesupdated: Mon Oct 28 2002 00:01:00
Think you're too old for Halloween? Smarthome's catalog will prove you wrong. It's the perfect mix of silly and scary: the Jell-O molds above ($9 each), foam tombstones (from $25), bags of fake bon...
What does the co-developer of the Furby do for an encore? Since Richard Levy brought those blabbermouth dolls to the world in 1998, he's churned out games based on everything from Men Are From Mars...
Deutsche Bank recently discovered a nasty problem at its 40-story skyscraper near Ground Zero. No, not structural damage. And not asbestos in the air either. It was something far more unexpected: m...
These things gotta happen every five years or so--ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. --The Godfather
What says American adolescence better than Slurpees? Try a menial job selling them. Now even teens and young adults from foreign lands can partake in these quintessential American experiences, than...
Hey, mister, wanna buy a letter "E"? It's official: The letter "E" is hot. Yes, it's very hot. Hotter than "X." Not since a turn-of-the-century infatuation with the letter "O" (Jell-O, Drano, Brill...
By now, moviegoers have become well acquainted with the phenomenon of product placement--the quid pro quo between corporations and filmmakers that made E.T. gobble Reese's Pieces and James Bond tra...
--Site: Insurance News Network (http ://www.insure.com/). It will never match Jell-O wrestling or monster-truck rallies for entertainment value, but this Website offers some basic information on li...
Ask just about any broker or financial planner, and you'll be told that doctors are not always the savviest investors. Even so, the American Medical Association has some investing advice for you. I...
Like most things Microsoftian, the software giant's recruiting department has taken on mythic proportions. There's the story of the recent college graduate who was asked in a job interview how he w...
Fortune rarely invokes the phrase "Fortune 50." Others use it all the time. In advertising, it denotes the companies that own the world's best brands--Coke and Pepsi, to name two. In banking, the F...
Talk about a smoke screen. By flying charter and running their airline as a private club, Mickey Richardson, 45, and William Walts, 58, pack-a-day men both, hope to effectively duck the Federal Avi...
Steer your cart down the immaculate aisles of Fresh Fields' new 30,000-square- foot market in Alexandria, Va. for the first time and, while everything looks familiar, you sense the landscape is sub...
The word ''solid'' has just taken on a new meaning. Silica aerogels are the lightest man-made solids known. (A few sponges and spider webs are lighter.) The upper sample in the photograph is only t...
You can't say that Convex Computer doesn't have novel themes to enliven its annual summer picnic. Last year this manufacturer trucked 200 tons of sand to its landlocked headquarters in Richardson, ...
TRUMP, CAMPEAU, Wang, Eastern -- hardly a day passes without news of some business in need of a rescue. ''In the 1980s, LBOs, takeovers, and global competition left a path of destruction out there....
While nostalgia once meant little old ladies pining for ocean liners and silent-screen star John Gilbert, it now means 77 million baby-boomers longing for reruns of My Three Sons. Confronting mortg...
''I've seen him lose his clothes, but never his aplomb,'' says an old pal of Hamish Maxwell, chairman of Philip Morris, referring to times when airlines have misplaced Maxwell's luggage. ''We've sa...
Tobacco shares are about as popular as a cigar smoker in a crowded elevator. As a result, analysts say, the stocks are bargains -- especially Philip Morris, a cigarette manufacturer and food compan...
For many Americans, unless something is made in the U.K. or fabrique en France it is just not up to snuff. Yet, as the following list of high-quality products demonstrates, we can glory in much of ...
Money Magazine: ADS THAT SELL THEMSELVESupdated: Sat Nov 01 1986 00:01:00
Those old magazines in your attic might not seem worth much, but some of the ads inside could fetch $15 to $30 -- or even more -- from collectors. Matted and framed, for example, a June 1905 Coca-C...
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