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Vicki McClure Davidson | April 1, 2011

  To quote the Snickers’ candy bar slogan, “Hungry? Why wait?” A candy bar and random fate has created seven new millionaires in New York — they’re splitting hundreds of millions of dollars, which, after taxes, gives each more than $19 million. Fact, once again, can be stranger than fiction. From ABC News, Man Cut [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | April 1, 2011

More people work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining, and utilities combined. That means more earn their pay from American taxpayers than they do from the sweat of their labor and the profits of their goods and services from these seven other industries — industries of production that used [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | April 1, 2011

Another week, another dollar. And, another FRIDAY! FOOD. GLORIOUS FOOD. Forget the dismal world news of the past week for a bit and enjoy looking at these fabulous and/or strange food photos — it’s not fattening, and is guaranteed as an effective, temporary reprieve from the myriad woes of the world. When available, recipes or [...]

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