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Ah, summertime is here ... a slower lifestyle, more relaxation, a time for vacation, leisure, calm, boredom ... and even more entertaining news!
Our latest installment of News Is Stranger Than Fiction, as gleaned from papers across the land. - In Lebanon, N.H., a woman was arrested on charges she refused to stop staring at an officer's police dog.- At an Applebee's in Antioch, Calif., staff apologized after a 2-year-old was accidentally served the wrong drink in his plastic sippy cup. The child kept pushing the drink away, prompting his mother to investigate. She removed the lid and realized the child had been served a margarita instead of apple juice. - In Floresville, Texas, a motorist was featured in news stories throughout the region after he found a "miraculous" image of Jesus in a...
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It took only 29 seconds for an unmanned experimental airship to burn Friday in a heavily wooded area of Greene County where it made an unexpected landing this week.
Lockheed Martin spokesman Keith Little said he could only confirm that the company's High Altitude Long Endurance-Demonstrator, or HALE-D, was damaged after being ignited by a grass fire, but Wayne fire Chief Jeff Hillberry said the aircraft was destroyed.
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... (AMIA) headquarters in Buenos Aires was destroyed by a car bomb, killing 85 people, the trial of 20 ... July 18, 1994, the car bomb destroyed in seconds the entire AMIA building, a social and cultural ce...
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At 3:47 p.m. on April 27, an EF-5 tornado with wind speeds of more than 200 mph leveled the town of Smithville, Miss., population 942. Seventeen people died in Monroe County, about 130 miles southeast of Memphis. l The tornado destroyed Town Hall, the police station, the post office, four churches, more than 150 homes and nearly every business. l Over the past six months, The Commercial Appeal spent time with townspeople, listening as they recounted their 10 seconds of terror, the haunting aftermath of the storm and what some described as the harrowing, heroic, even hallowed day that changed their lives and their small-town way of life. l These are the stories they shared.
In all the years Jimmy Cowley had known Mikey Phillips, he'd never once seen him speed. But without so much as a co...
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During the 1980s, Frank Sonnenberg was national director of marketing for Ernst & Young's Management Consulting Group. For the past 18 years he's been running a marketing firm in the old post office building on Oak Street in Ridgewood. His clients range from Pepsico to Hudson City Savings Bank to Sharp Electronics. He writes self-help books, articles and blogs on the side.
His book "Marketing to Win" (Harper & Row, 1990) was translated into several languages, and "Managing With a Conscience" (McGraw- Hill, 1994) made Industry Week magazine's top 10 business books of the year.
... takes a long time to develop but can be destroyed in seconds." People have to take that to heart. He...
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..."50 years of work can be destroyed in 50 seconds.". Mount Sinai was founded in downto...
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NEW SWEDEN - A lightning strike during a heavy afternoon storm Sunday destroyed a barn on a Jemtland Road.
The barn was in flames within a few seconds of the lightning strike just after 2 p.m., according to Roy Woods, Caribou fire chief.
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I read your article on terminating employees and felt compelled to write you. While you make several important points stemming from a change in office culture, I think you missed a rather obvious one - protecting the company's computer system - Zeke T.
Many employees who work with computers online can probably expect a termination that is sudden - being escorted to the boss's office or HR - with no warning. That's harsh and insensitive. The reason termination is often done this way is because of the past history many companies have had with employees who were given reasonable notice and then used their final days to get even with the company. They deleted important documents, destroyed or even stole current work, and even in some cases transferred client information to their next job. I...
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By Joanne Kimberlin
The Virginian-Pilot
... sweat- soaked trial that began with a few seconds of terror on April 16, when at least 10 tornadoes ..., businesses and more than 50 homes were destroyed or heavily damaged, a huge hit in a town with just...
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PERU, Ill. - A fire at a massive former clock factory that police say was deliberately lit provided an eerie backdrop for a northern Illinois city's New Year's celebrations, and despite the efforts of firefighters from throughout the area, the city landmark was destroyed.
The blaze at the former Westclox Co. clock complex, which covers a two-by-four-block span of downtown Peru, began around the time people were counting down the last seconds of 2011, Gary Eccles, an engineer with the city's fire department, told The Associated Press. By 11 a.m. Sunday, the fire was burning itself out but had destroyed the building and caused it to cave in on itself, he said.