drat fink
View current page...more recent posts
net point
"New York's Natural History Museum Pioneers Use of Internet2"
acid reign
"Power company buys Ohio River village plagued by clouds of acid last summer "
coup coup catchoo
"MEXICO CITY — When is a coup not a coup? When the United States says so, it seems — especially if the fallen leader is no friend to American interests.""CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez returned triumphantly to office two days after he was ousted and arrested by Venezuela's military, raising his fist in the air as he greeted supporters and reclaimed the presidential palace Sunday."
there goes the neighborhood
"To be called NoLIta Place, the 24-hour doorman building will have 65 studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments with 19,000 square feet of first-floor retail space. "We think it's a great opportunity for people from downtown and midtown to live in the SoHo-NoLIta market," said Al Troup, the vice president of the Carlyle Group, whose president is Frank C. Carlucci, a former secretary of defense, with former Secretary of State James A. Baker III serving as a partner. (NoLIta is short for North of Little Italy.)"
put it on my card
"Nearly a million tenants can use their cards to pay their rent, thanks to an arrangement between Visa and the biggest U.S. property manager, Chicago-based Apartment Investment and Management Co. Visa touts the service as convenient for renters and landlords."
charitable donation
as the gum turns
pete rose chewed gum now $1200+ on ebay.
war and fuzzy
"The soldiers then hauled men out of the captured homes, beat them, bound their hands and blindfolded them, stripped them to their underwear, and shipped them off to an Israeli military base for questioning, said the metal worker, who was detained for 24 hours. "They beat my brother - 100 times they hit him with their batons, on his shoulders, his stomach and his back," he said.
They met fierce resistance every step of the way from the Palestinian gunmen hunkering down in narrow alleys, and from the master bomb-makers in the camp, who rigged up an elaborate system of tripwires all over the camp, with exploding houses, skips, sewage covers, and even trees. They also handed out belts of explosives to would-be suicide bombers - Israel's chief of staff, Shaul Mofaz, said this week that five Palestinians, including a woman, had blown themselves up while pretending to surrender to the Israeli forces."
in bloom
clintonomics
"Not so long ago, Clinton Street on the Lower East Side was a grim, grafitti-ridden streetscape. By night, bags of heroin were sold by brand name, while prostitutes peddled their wares nearby. Things looked even worse, if possible, under daylight, which shone on Clinton Street like fluorescent lights on a hangover."
land rover
"This is the Age of Maps. Forget for a moment those 15th-century creations, with their romanticized sea monsters and crudely conceived land masses. More than 99 percent of all maps – ever – were made in the past century. Keep a sharp eye, and maps will start popping up on such things as cereal boxes, bus stops, emergency exits, and license plates."