Statistics And Other Lies
10 Most Depressing Jobs
This is really something, folks. The US Department Of Health And Human Services released a report of what the most depressing jobs are. To be honest with you, I am not all that shocked. But next time I go to McDonalds, I'm thinking of giving a big hug to their depressed employees. Here is the list, anyway:
Why A Weak Dollar Hurts U.S. Manufacturers
A cheaper dollar helps domestic manufacturers because it makes local costs, such as wages and rents, decline in relation to the costs borne by international competitors.
Not Your Ordinary Bum - Homeless man is chess king of Washington
Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.
Travelling salesman donates kidney to Idaho man he met during sales call
TWIN FALLS, Idaho - When Jamie Howard knocked on Paul Sucher's door six months ago, he was trying to sell him a new vacuum cleaner. He ended up giving him one of his kidneys.
The chance encounter with Howard, a travelling salesman for the Kirby Co., led to transplant surgery in August. Now, the colour is returning to Sucher's cheeks and he is recovering.
Sucher, 35, suffered kidney failure three years ago because of high blood pressure, forcing him to undergo dialysis.
Bill Gates Has To Prove He's Got Money And Won't Be A Drain On Social Services Prior To Obtaining Visa To Nigeria
Is this ironic or what?
'Gay bomb' wins Ig Nobel award
While some awards clearly poke fun at popular culture, others are meant to provoke debate about science, honouring achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think", according to the magazine.
Japanese Pioneer 'Divorce-Loans'
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's first-ever divorce loan caters to those who fell head over heels in love only to find themselves up to their necks in debt.
Named "Re" for those re-starting their lives, the loan helps divorcees cover the cost of compensation and legal payments and offers a lower interest rate than credit cards loans, on which Japan's growing number of divorce-seekers have depended in the past.
China Bans Bra, Underwear, Sex Toy Ads
BEIJING (AP) - China has banned television and radio ads for push-up bras, figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys in the communist government's latest move to purge the nation's airwaves of what it calls social pollution.
Regulators have already targeted ads using crude or suggestive language, behavior, and images, tightening their grip on television and radio a few weeks ahead of a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress at which some new senior leaders will be appointed.
General Lee's Civil War-era letters fetch $61,000 at auction
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- For months, 11 folders of old papers rescued from his parents' closet sat in Thomas Willcox's sport utility vehicle. Then he realized some were signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and might be valuable.
They were: The three letters written by Lee during the Civil War sold at auction Saturday for $61,000.
Boomer Statistics You Never Hear About
For Americans ages 35 to 54:
