Tag: satire
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June 28, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
At Gerbil Interactive Media ("we", "us" or "Gerbil"), we value the privacy of people like you (a "Member", "you" or "you all" if you are . . .
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September 12, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
SAN FRANCISCO. If you thought the Barry Bonds steroid scandal couldn't get any weirder, think again. The San Francisco Giants today announced that Bonds is pregnant.
Bonds: "The . . .
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October 06, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
I have been a member of the male sex my entire life, actually longer, since my masculinity--such as it is--was determined when I first acquired one of those dust-bunny like creatures, the Y chromosome, . . .
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December 19, 2007 09:15 AM EST --
NEW YORK. A study released this week indicating that people who suffer from dyslexia are more likely to rise to the top in the corporate world has business leaders buzzing and headhunters riffling . . .
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December 20, 2007 04:49 PM EST --
BOSTON. At the Borders Bookstore in downtown Boston, the lines snake around the building with holiday shoppers making last-minute purchases. Sometimes the contrasts are striking, as ramrod-straight . . .
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March 10, 2008 03:16 PM EDT --
ALBANY, New York. Crusading New York Governor Eliot Spitzer today demanded a complete investigation into his involvement in a prostitution ring, saying he would not rest until he had determined . . .
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June 21, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
MAYNARD, Mass. In a darkened room, Rose Alba Mercurio sits in a comfortable chair and repeats the words she hears on a self-hypnosis tape especially prepared for her by a local support group. . . .
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July 10, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
Boston--City of Big Shoulders!
No wait--that's Chicago. Boston's the City of Round Shoulders, because of the number of bookish types who live here. That's why I joined . . .
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October 20, 2008 02:45 PM EDT --
The news this morning was grim. Another Sunday, another no-holds-barred fight at a baby shower turned deadly. Four people taken to hospital emergency rooms at 11:30 p.m. When will . . .
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December 04, 2008 07:45 AM EST --
FLORISSANT, Mo. Amy Ratcliffe is a high school junior who says she's "on the bubble" for her first college choice, Vanderbilt University. "I bombed the math part of my SAT . . .
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November 01, 2006 11:53 AM EST --
BOSTON, Massachusetts. Democratic Party leaders descended on Boston's exclusive Louisburg Square neighborhood today as they seek to put out the fire started by comments Senator John Kerry made to his . . .
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November 04, 2006 12:18 PM EST --
WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. federal income tax system depends on voluntary compliance by hundreds of millions of citizens, a fact that isn't lost on Lois Lerner, director of the IRS's exempt-organizations . . .
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December 25, 2006 01:46 PM EST --
A knowledge of fine wines is a hallmark of sophistication. Whether entertaining discriminating guests or enjoying an upscale business luncheon or dinner, a wine faux pas can have disastrous effects . . .
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January 05, 2007 12:57 PM EST --
Interviews are perhaps the most stressful part of a job search, regularly ranking above "lying on my resume" and "buying a newspaper for the want ads" on surveys of unemployed . . .
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March 19, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
LONDON. News that British Airways had upgraded a dead passenger and her daughter to first-class seats on an international flight caused bond rating agencies to downgrade the credit standing . . .
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March 22, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
BEMIDJI, Minnesota. Carol Winooski is an active contributor to Gather, the Boston-based "social network" site whose members earn redeemable points for posting content or creating groups . . .
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March 24, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
GREENWICH, Connecticut. Liam Nelson is a scrawny sixth-grader who's short for his age. His dad, Terry Nelson, is manager of a hedge fund that generated an eye-popping 23% return for . . .
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May 06, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
BOSTON. Claire and Dan Paulson are residents of this city's newly-energized waterfront scene, "urban pioneers" who have lived through five years of construction in the hope that soon . . .
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June 08, 2007 08:12 AM EDT --
Readers of this column are constantly bombarding us with questions. Look out--here comes one now! (Just kidding.) In order to make your reading experience more enjoyable, and to reduce . . .
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July 05, 2007 08:08 AM EDT --
DURHAM, North Carolina. A team of researchers at the Duke University School of Medicine say they have developed a vaccine-like treatment that can slow or even prevent the onset of anorexia nervosa, . . .
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