Desperate Trends From Early 20th Century Britain Show What REAL Austerity...
Those who have lived during wartime or the Great Depression know that desperate times call for desperate measures. British journalist Hunter Davies uncovered some of the most interesting austerity...
View Article11 Tough Truths That Every Great Leader Knows
One of the greatest traits in leaders is that they are able to handle being at the top so effortlessly that you wonder if they ever doubted themselves. According to Deirdre Maloney, a speaker and...
View ArticleThe Best New Insights From Wall Street's Hottest Analysts And Hedge Fund...
It was another busy week of earnings announcements. Disappointing earnings announcements. Even though they're about 5 percent off of their highs, stocks continue to be remarkably resilient....
View ArticleThis Plane May Have Saved More US Troops Than Any Other In The World
When you're hunkered down behind a thin sliver of cover taking heavy fire, there is no more reassuring sound than the twin engines of the A-10 Thunderbolt screaming in from the distance. Check out the...
View Article10 Memorable Moments From 'Attack of the Show!'
Yesterday, G4 announced the cancellation of its two lead programming series come the end of the year, "Attack of the Show," and "X-Play." The news comes less than three months before NBCU's plan to...
View ArticleSee Where People Were Killed During Chicago's Deadliest Year
Chicago became one of America's deadliest cities this year. The city is on track to record more than 433 homicides — the total for all of 2011, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. Currently, the...
View ArticleMeet The Wealthy Fundraisers Who Saved Obama's Campaign This Summer
A "bundler" is a special person to a campaign. They're a wealthy person who is friends with many other wealthy people, fundraising for a candidate and convincing people to give to the campaign. Bush...
View ArticleThe Best Banks In The World Broken Down By Category
For its 2012 list of the World's Best Banks, Global Finance choose winners in 12 categories ranging from best investment bank to best Islamic Financial Institution. Citi led the way in three of the...
View ArticleMeet The 20 Women Most Likely To Be Poached By Rival Ad Agencies
When we published our list of the 30 most powerful women in advertising, we also asked agencies and people in the marketing biz to tell us which women at competing shops they most admire or would love...
View ArticleThe 15 Most Bizarrely Unnecessary Sexy Halloween Costumes Of 2012
One of the scariest parts of Halloween is the ability for the costume industry to turn even the most chaste and unobjectionable character or inanimate object into a "sexy" one. It seems just about...
View ArticleCheck Out Billionaire Hedge Funder Marc Lasry's 'Super Freaky' Halloween...
In keeping with tradition, billionaire hedge fund manager Marc Lasry, who runs Avenue Capital, has once again made his Upper East Side mansion spectacularly spooky for Halloween. Lasry, who is married...
View ArticleHOUSE OF THE DAY: A Lovely Upper East Side Home By The Tiffany & Company...
An E. 64th Street townhouse, designed by the Tiffany & Company architect, John W. Cross, is on sale for $19 million. The townhouse spans 6,600 square feet, has five bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, and a...
View ArticleHow 8 Famous Acquitted Defendants Spent The Rest Of Their Lives
OJ Simpson The beneficiary of one of history’s most famous not-guilty verdicts saw his legal luck run out after a 2007 armed robbery in Las Vegas. Simpson was convicted on 10 charges related to an...
View ArticleThe World's Top Destinations For Foodies
As a salty mist rolls in from the tidal river, you duck into Moran’s Oyster Cottage and settle by the peat fire. Willie, a seventh-generation shucker, draws you a creamy headed pint of Guinness and a...
View ArticleThe 5 Creepiest Historic Haunted Places In America
With Halloween around the corner, ghost-hunters and thrill-seekers are looking for paranormal scares. Sure there are the manufactured, artificial "haunted houses" where zombies and mummies pop out of...
View ArticleAfter Years In The Desert, Nissan's Sentra Is Relevant Again
When Nissan first brought the Sentra to the American market in the early 1980s, it was a success: After a year of sales, it was the best-selling import and fourth best-selling passenger car in the...
View ArticleA Close Look At Iran's Burgeoning Military Arsenal
Iran's military has 545,000 active personnel and some of the most advanced military technology of anyone out there. The thing is, the United States gave them a lot of it. See the weapons > Granted,...
View ArticleWORST-CASE SCENARIO: What To Expect From Hurricane Sandy's Wrath
America's Eastern Seaboard is bracing for Hurricane Sandy. The storm is barreling up the Atlantic Ocean and likely to converge with two other major weather systems — a winter storm in the west and a...
View ArticleThe Best Panicked Tweets About Hurricane Sandy
Gather your kids, your batteries, and your jars of peanut butter, we hear this is going to be the big one. Hurricane Sandy is making its way toward the U.S. East Coast, likely to bring a nasty...
View Article18 Ads That Changed How We Think About Women
When people say sex sells, most of the time, what they really mean is that sexy women sell. For decades, advertisers have been finding different ways to feature women in ads in order to entice buyers....
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