Planet-38.com: In Passing

Meeting People by Amy Alkon

Usually ascerbic, sometimes downright mean, but always with sound advice.

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For working women, new housekeeping standard ‘clean enough’

Relief for some, a signal of the further decline of standards for others.

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Party Hosts Who Pick Favorites

Dear Miss Manners: Unfortunately, I think I may have discovered a phenomenon that is even tackier than cash bars at wedding receptions. (The first question & response cracked us up!)

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Madonna’s daughter Lourdes rebels by calling uncle

This is just another example of shoddy journalism. The title and the body of the story don’t match.
The title reads as if she already does this, but the body of the story states this is something her uncle imagines she will do one day.

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Say So Long to an Old Companion: Cassette Tapes

There was a funeral the other day at the Manhattan offices of book publisher Hachette to mourn the passing of what it called a “dear friend” — the cassette tape.

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For Many Student Athletes, Game Over

As cash-strapped school districts across the nation scale back sports programs, some fear that the tradition of the scholar athlete is at risk.

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What Makes Northern Lights Dance

The mysterious sudden brightening and wavelike movements of the aurora borealis, also called the Northern Lights, are caused by periodic explosions of magnetic energy 80,000 miles above Earth, NASA researchers reported. Check out the video – The video is fantastic

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‘Step Brothers’: Baby Talk, By Kurt Loder – Movie News Story

Now we gotta see it and lose our minds!

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Thinking Ahead

While gasoline is more than $4 a gallon and the price of home heating oil soars, the blueberries in the bushes ripen — and they’re free.

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British Judge Rules Tabloid Report Tying Grand Prix Boss to

A judge ruled for Max Mosley, the overseer of grand prix motor racing, in his privacy suit over a British tabloid’s story about a sadomasochistic “orgy” with a Nazi theme.

“It also shows that they had no right to go into private premises and take pictures and film of adults engaged in activities which are no one’s business but those of the people concerned.”


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