The law for taxing cell phone use was written 20 years ago. That\'s when cell phones were the size and weight of bricks - when they cost $4,000 and were used only by top executives. Today they\'re smaller, lighter, cheaper and used by almost everyone - but the law hasn\'t changed. Personal calls made on company mobile phones are still taxable. The IRS considers them part of an employee\'s...
Despite Darwin\'s theory of evolution, there are people who don\'t seem to have evolved mentally. A man from Tennessee booked a hotel room so he and his girlfriend could celebrate the first anniversary of the day they met. To make the room more romantic, he arranged candles on the floor to spell \"I Love U\". After lighting the candles he went to get his girlfriend. By the time he got back, the...
Do cutbacks in government spending have silver linings? They do for some people in Utah. Utah is the first state to switch to a four-day workweek for government employees. Although state police, prison guards and employees of the court and public universities aren't included in the one-year experiment, 17,000 employees will be working 10-hour days Monday-Thursday. This will enable lights, heat...
Today when people pay to fly, they're not through paying. Airlines are continually coming up with new fees to keep themselves flying. American, Northwest, United and U.S. Air are charging $15 for checked baggage. Although Jet Blue isn't charging for checked baggage yet, it charges $7 for pillows and blankets. Yes, you can keep them - and that saves Jet Blue the cost of cleaning them. The way...
"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself" - that was Thomas Jefferson's way of saying be resourceful; and the 3rd president of the Unite States epitomized resourcefulness. In addition to being an astute politician, Jefferson was an architect, author, horticulturist, inventor, paleontologist and founder of the University of Virginia. When President Kennedy welcomed a group of...
India's Tata Motors is about to do what car manufacturers said couldn't be done. It's about to release the Nano, a $2,500 car. The Nano, which is 10 feet long and 5 feet wide, has 4 doors, can accommodate 4 adults and is expected to get 47 miles per gallon. The company's chairman compares the start-up production of 250,000 Nanos with the invention of the airplane and the moon landing....
Although our bodies are 50-60% water, our inability to store it requires us to continually replenish it. Twenty percent of the water we need can be replenished by the average diet and that percentage can be increased by increasing the amount of high-water foods we eat. Boiling grains increases water content six fold, vegetables lose negligible water when cooked and 4 ounces of steak retain 2.2...
Cooking is a daily have-to. When I got married, I saw cooking as my duty. When I had young children, I saw it as my responsibility. Now I'm wearing glasses and I see things differently. Now I see cook as a four-letter word. When bespectacled me was looking for help online, I found "Dream Dinners". Dream Dinners is a food preparation franchise. They provide a fully equipped kitchen, recipes, all...
Is age 19 too old to learn how to box? Deontay Wilder didn't think so. Deontay describes himself as having been a quiet kid who got into fights with bullies - fights that sent him to a school for at-risk kids when he was in 7th grade. Fortunately, that turned Deontay's life around and he later went to college on a basketball scholarship. However, when Deontay's daughter was born with a spinal...
The pentail tree shrew is a mouselike mammal that lives in the Malaysian rainforest. Shrews are nocturnal and spend most nights drinking nectar, their favorite being from bertam palm flowers. These flowers contain a yeast that ferments the nectar into 3.8% alcohol - as in beer. Although shrews consume a human equivalent of nine glasses a night, they never get intoxicated. Researchers surmise...
