Friday, September 15, 2006
News Hype Headlines: AM Edition (9/15/06)
Quick hits from some of the developing news stories of the morning:
Consumers nationwide are being warned about eating fresh bagged spinach, with one death reported so far in the eight-state outbreak of E. coli...
- FDA Warns Against Bagged Spinach (CBS News)
The Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things. As expected, Muslim leaders aren't too happy...
- Muslim Anger Grows At Pope Speech (BBC News)
Ford Motors will cut its salaried workforce and accelerate the closing of two plants in an attempt to speed up it recovery and hope to become profitable with its North American auto operations by 2009...
- Ford To Cut Costs, Third Of Salaried Staff (ABC News) ¶ 8:07 AM 0 comments
Consumers nationwide are being warned about eating fresh bagged spinach, with one death reported so far in the eight-state outbreak of E. coli...
- FDA Warns Against Bagged Spinach (CBS News)
The Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things. As expected, Muslim leaders aren't too happy...
- Muslim Anger Grows At Pope Speech (BBC News)
Ford Motors will cut its salaried workforce and accelerate the closing of two plants in an attempt to speed up it recovery and hope to become profitable with its North American auto operations by 2009...
- Ford To Cut Costs, Third Of Salaried Staff (ABC News) ¶ 8:07 AM 0 comments
Happy Birf-Days For 9-15-06
These famous and use-to-be famous people are celebrating a birf-day 2-day:
Actor Jackie Cooper is 84.
Played Perry White in the Christopher Reeve 'Superman' movies...
Actor-sportscaster Merlin Olsen is 66.
Was original member of the Los Angeles Rams "Fearsome Foursome..."
Actor Tommy Lee Jones & director Oliver Stone are both 60.
Jones played Clay Shaw in the Stone produced 'JFK' in 1991...
DJ Kay Gee (Naughty By Nature) is 37.
The hip-hop anthem 'Hip Hop Hooray' released in 1993 on the album 19 Naughty III... ¶ 5:21 AM 0 comments
Actor Jackie Cooper is 84.
Played Perry White in the Christopher Reeve 'Superman' movies...
Actor-sportscaster Merlin Olsen is 66.
Was original member of the Los Angeles Rams "Fearsome Foursome..."
Actor Tommy Lee Jones & director Oliver Stone are both 60.
Jones played Clay Shaw in the Stone produced 'JFK' in 1991...
DJ Kay Gee (Naughty By Nature) is 37.
The hip-hop anthem 'Hip Hop Hooray' released in 1993 on the album 19 Naughty III... ¶ 5:21 AM 0 comments
A Brand New Rotary Phone For Just $29.10 A Month
First they refuse to die on time and end up sucking away my Social Security. Now we have examples of the pesky elderly not having the common courtesy to keep up with modern technology.
An 82-year-old widow from Canton, Ohio has been renting a rotary dial telephone from then AT&T/now Lucent for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now outdated phone. About 750,000 rotary phones are still being leased today, as demand is strangely still there, because like 82-year-old Ester Strogen says, "I'd like to have my rotary back. I like that better."
- Widow Rented Rotary Phone For 42 Years (Yahoo! News) ¶ 3:37 AM 0 comments
An 82-year-old widow from Canton, Ohio has been renting a rotary dial telephone from then AT&T/now Lucent for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now outdated phone. About 750,000 rotary phones are still being leased today, as demand is strangely still there, because like 82-year-old Ester Strogen says, "I'd like to have my rotary back. I like that better."
- Widow Rented Rotary Phone For 42 Years (Yahoo! News) ¶ 3:37 AM 0 comments
