Quotes of the Week (BBC News)
Gems from Michael Owen and Jonny Wilkinson, plus top chants...more...Kids Aren't Walking to School? Author Points to Efficiency and Choice (Smart Growth Online)
''As the nation's population sprawls over an ever-larger geography -- and as schools increase in size -- fewer families can indulge the simple act of walking their children to school,'' observes book author Charles Euchner in a Hartford Courant commentary on the annual National Walk to School Day on October 3, noting that despite serious setbacks since the 1970s, ''America has super-sized its ......more... Stocks mixed amid concerns about corporate profits, housing and credit market problems (The Globe Gazette)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Wall Street ended a volatile session mixed Wednesday as investors? concerns about sluggish housing and tight credit intensified their uneasiness over a motley batch of corporate profits. Rising oil prices only added to the market?s malaise....more... NONFICTION: Elegant writing, interesting conversations (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
NONFICTION If Sports Illustrated remains one of the best-written magazines in America, the author of this book is one of the reasons. If you've never been exposed to S. L. Price's work before, you won't be five pages into "Far Afield" before you realize you are reading a truly elegant writer. The book is, for the most part, a summary of a year Price spent in Europe on assignment from his ......more... 10-17-07 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)
JUANITA BYNUM'S HOUSE ON AUCTION BLOCK: Home headed for highest bidder unless she comes up with back taxes and other fees. *Things have gone from bad to worse for Juanita Bynum....more... It may be for a cause, but not everyone tickled pink by campaign (The Globe Gazette)
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) ? October used to be shrouded in black and orange, but in recent years, pink has nudged into the palette....more... Claire Beale on Advertising (Independent)
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment": so said the aptly named 19th-century humorist Josh Billings. Fallon might agree....more... Unofficial collection of rugby trivia reaches all the right parts (The Scotsman: Sport)
THE newly published Scotland Rugby Miscellany carries a warning. "This a 100% unofficial publication", the reader is informed - an endorsement if ever there was one....more... Stocks fall as worries about inflation, tech sector prompt traders to book profits (The Globe Gazette)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks retreated from lofty heights Thursday after a European Central Bank official pointed to rising price risks and a major Wall Street bank lowered its sales expectations for Chinese Internet company Baidu.com....more... |