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How the World's Biggest Corporations, From Starbucks to Wal-Mart to Barnes & Noble, Claim to Be 'Local'
HSBC, one of the biggest banks on the planet, has taken to calling itself "the world's local bank." Starbucks is un-branding at least three of its Seattle outlets, the first of which just reopened as "15th Avenue Coffee and Tea." Winn-Dixie, a 500-outlet supermarket chain, recently launched a new ad campaign under the tagline, "Local flavor since 1956."10 Husbands, Still a Virgin fm Mahen - Indian Web
sorry - but i was laughing so hard - my bf is a lawyer :ROTFL: (shame on me...) ;) A lawyer married a woman who had previously divorced ten husbands. On their wedding night, she told her new husband, "Please be gentle, I'm still a virgin." "What?"Taxman Seeks Teen Who Sold Virginity
May 21) - A teenager who sold her virginity for about $14,000 may have to pay half of it in taxes, London's Daily Mail reported. An Italian businessman reportedly paid Romanian-born Alina Percea, 18, in cash for a weekend of sex after the teen auctioned off her virginity online. Tax authorities in Germany are poised to claim 50 per cent of the money that a teenage student earned for 'auctioning' her virginity because they claim it was 'tantamount to prostitution'.Critics Cringe at Ad for Burger King's Latest Sandwich
By Joshua Rhett Miller June 30, 2009 An advertisement for Burger King's latest sandwich leaves little to the imagination and should be discontinued due to "distasteful" and unappetizing references to oral sex, advertising experts told FOXNews.com. The print ad for the "BK Super Seven Incher" — a limited time promotion in Singapore, a society known around the world for its strict government controls of social conduct — shows the "mind-blowing" sandwich near the open mouth of a wide-eyed, red-lipsticked woman accompanied by the suggestive tagline: "It'll blow your mind away." "Fill your desire for something long, juicy and flame-grilled," the ad continues.In-flight Internet raises etiquette concerns: Phone calls, expletive-laden chats, pornography open up ‘ticklish area’
NEW YORK - Seat 17D is yapping endlessly on an Internet phone call. Seat 16F is flaming Seat 16D with expletive-laden chats. Seat 16E is too busy surfing pornography sites to care.Twilight movie in the NY Times
Love that the article opens up referring to the "legions of teenagers who have read the novel"... um, I'm a bit past that age group ;)
November 2, 2008
Love and Pain and the Teenage Vampire Thing
By TERRENCE RAFFERTY
AS the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film “Twilight” is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn’t the very worst problem an adolescent can have. You could fall helplessly in love with a vampire, which is what happens to the virginal 17-year-old heroine and narrator of Stephenie Meyer’s book.
Green Travel: Trying to Lighten That Carbon Footprint
From the NYTimes: http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/travel/04green.html?th&emc=th Trying to Lighten That Carbon Footprint By JENNIFER CONLIN Published: May 4, 2008 IN February, on a chilly, clear Sunday morning, Sir Richard Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic, along with the co-sponsors Boeing and GE Aviation, lured more than 200 journalists to a hangar at Heathrow Airport near London to witness what they said was airline history. Over flutes of Champagne and plates of mini-bagels filled with salmon, everyone’s eyes were fixed on a 747 as it took off on the world’s first biofuel demonstration flight. Never mind that only one of the plane’s engines used biofuel, and that was about 25 percent mixed with standard kerosene jet fuel.Musicians take social networking into their own hands
By Jennifer Netherby NEW YORK (Billboard) - 50 Cent has more than 1 million friends on MySpace, but if the rapper ever decides to leave the social network, he'll be leaving behind those friends, too. So like a growing number of artists, he's started his own social networking site. On Thisis50.com, fans can create profiles and friend lists just like on MySpace, but 50 Cent has direct access to the site's users and their e-mail addresses.Christina Aguilera bio via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American pop singer and songwriter. She was signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection" for the film Mulan. She came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera (1999), which was a critical and commercial success.Beatles for sale: rappers, brands turn to Fab Four
By Susan Butler and Paul Sexton NEW YORK/LONDON (Billboard) - It's perfectly legal, but it will still seem to some listeners like the sound of someone making off with England's crown jewels. On rap collective Wu-Tang Clan's new single "The Heart Gently Weeps," a Santana-style rock guitar opening gives way to an almost celestial chorus of something very familiar. There, and throughout the track, is the unmistakable melody of George Harrison's timeless contribution to the Beatles' "White Album" from 1968: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
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