Bulgarian schoolchildren bundled in wool coats sang songs to keep warm in their bitterly cold classroom. Bosnians drove hours to snap up electric heaters. And in Serbia, millions woke up to the Eastern Orthodox Christmas under the threat of hardship. ...more

January 8, 2009

"Outliers" are not politicians who lie even more than other politicians. It is a term used by statisticians to describe some data that are far away from the average - data on seven-foot women or freezing temperatures in Los Angeles, for example. ...more

January 3, 2009

In our condominium, all of the directors are in residence for only six months of the year. Then they all head North for the other six months. Should they not arrange to have one board member in residence at all times? They have added the expense of a manager to do their work and we have to pay for that. It does not seem that we should have to pay for their vacations. ...more

December 28, 2008

General Motors Corp. said Friday that it will temporarily close 20 factories across North America and make sweeping cuts to its vehicle production as it tries to adjust to dramatically weaker automobile demand. ...more

December 13, 2008

General Motors Corp. said Friday it will temporarily close 20 factories across North America and make sweeping cuts to its vehicle production as it tries to adjust to dramatically weaker automobile demand. ...more

December 12, 2008

to bake vast quantities of cookies in as short a time as possible - usually hits sometime between four calling birds and eight maids-a-milking. ...more

November 19, 2008

Colombia's government readied emergency measures Sunday to appease irate investors who lost tens of millions of dollars in the collapse of pyramid schemes that caused riots, scores of arrests and two deaths. ...more

November 17, 2008

Cold fronts have been frequent and fairly severe for this time of year, and that's scattered the sardines that were so plentiful a few short weeks ago. ...more

November 12, 2008

Tampa International Airport continues to fare better than some other Florida airports in the airline industry's latest moves to conserve on fuel costs by trimming flights or replacing larger aircraft with smaller planes. ...more

November 10, 2008

The economic situation that we're experiencing in the United States won't get much better any time soon. Just when Wall Street suggests we might soon hit bottom to the tumult, my notions put the economy high on the Richter scale of continued shaky financial ground. ...more

November 6, 2008