Company Wants To Trademark Letter Q
A CLASSIC Sesame Street animated short instructs that the letter Q “looks like a funny looking thing.”
QVC, the leading home shopping channel, is making a bid to rebrand the often-overlooked letter, betting that it can make the sight of the letter Q elicit not a laugh nor an immediate search for a U, but a feeling of delicious anticipation.
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Man Commits Five Burglaries After Watching TV Show Called 'It Takes A Thief'
RICHMOND, Ky. -- A man who says he learned how to rob homes by watching a TV show was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a string of burglaries in central Kentucky. Michael W. Hobbs, 36, of Waco, Ky., pleaded guilty to five counts of burglary. He was sentenced Thursday.
Study sees rise in men not washing hands
CHICAGO - The gender gap has widened when it comes to hygiene, according to the latest stakeout by the "hand washing police." One-third of men didn't bother to wash after using the bathroom, compared with 12 percent of women, said the researchers who spy on people in public restrooms. They reported their latest findings Monday at a meeting of infectious disease scientists.
Two years ago, the last time the survey was done, only one-quarter of men didn't wash, compared with 10 percent of women.
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Simply Put, Smart People Don't Need An MBA
MOST people who knew Gabriel Hammond at Johns Hopkins in the late 1990s could have predicted he would rise quickly on Wall Street. As a freshman, he traded stocks from his dorm room, making a $1,000 bet on Caterpillar. Soon after, he abandoned his childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and, upon graduation, joined Goldman Sachs as a stock analyst.
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Inmates Riot Over Sausage Ration
HOBBS, N.M. (AP) - Some prisoners in the Lea County jail started fires and broke toilets and windows after they were told they would be allowed only one sausage each for dinner.
Warden Jann Gartman says 33 prisoners were involved in the melee Tuesday evening.
Officers from the Lea County Sheriff’s and Hobbs Police departments were called to the jail to restore control. The jail was locked down after the incident.
Day planner found 6 years later among casino rubble
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — For six years, Avis Kirk had been wondering what the heck she had done with her small leather planner book that held her checkbook, credit cards, ID and about $60.
The planner had vanished without a trace after the former Sands Casino Hotel food service worker set it down near the buffet for a few moments in 2001.
"I couldn't even imagine where it went," she said. "I thought it had been stolen. So many people helped me look for it."
Outsourcing Alibi - French Company Offers Alibis For Adulterers
(AP) PARIS Looking to get away for a weekend fling without getting caught? A new French company provides would-be adulterers with custom-made excuses that help take the danger of discovery out of cheating.
Founded six months ago by former private eye Regine Mourizard, Web-based Ibila can cook up invites to phony weekend seminars, fake emergency phone calls from work, invitations to nonexistent weddings - anything to justify cheating spouses' absence.
