Month March 2005

Today’s LA Times has a full page ad today, replete with huge headlines and manic text for a real estate seminar promising “one weekend can make you a millionaire” with a featured speech by Donald Trump, some of whose properties…

LA Times on the housing bubble, complete with unsophisticated buyers using their retirement funds to buy speculative property sight unseen. They’re cashing in retirement funds, selling stock and taking out second mortgages. They’re pouring the money into real estate, often…

Poison gas, that is. Which can be created by teflon frying pans. DuPont studies show that the Teflon offgases toxic particulates at 446 F. At 680 F Teflon pans release at least six toxic gases, including two carcinogens, two global…

After remarks by Randall Terry — an anti-abortion activist who has been acting as a spokesman for Terri Schiavo’s family, the Schindlers — members of a group calling itself the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigades seized control of the microphones and…

McDonalds is experimenting with outsourcing their drive-up windows, so when you order a burger at one, you might be talking to someone in India. With entry level jobs vanishing in the U.S., how do those new to the job market get that…