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Feeling stressed? Try this test from Leapfrog Innovations. The idea is to look at the picture (link is below) to see if you can find any differences between the two seemingly identical leaping dolphins. If you can find more than three, you’re...
I was skipping around UNLV’s hospitality site, looking for something or other, when I came across The Gallery of Regrettable Food and just lost it completely. James Lileks has collected some of the worst of the worst cookbooks from the 40s, 50s...
Sure, Nebraska has a lot of cows and corn, but when Omaha’s Qwest Center wooed a group of insurance meeting planners recently, they did it with Maryland crab cakes, tempura ahi tuna rolls, and pastry-encrusted brats, according to an article on...
Interesting editorial in today’s New York Times about a new cell phone service from Cingular Wireless called "Escape-a-Date," where you can program your phone to ring at a certain time and it gives you a script to follow so it sounds like you have...
"Microsoft Corp., which has amassed an unparalleled cash hoard of nearly $60 billion from its world-dominating software business, announced recently that it would return a large chunk of it to shareholders the company will pay out more than $32...
I’m one of those people who always gets lost in a mall, but I usually do OK when I’m in a city. Unless it’s Boston. No matter how many times I drive around bean town, I always manage to end up on a one-way street to nowhere, looking longingly at...
Pharmaceutical companies can’t pay to fly doctors in for educational meetings, but they can provide "scholarships" for local politician events, according to this article. ...
It’s easy to eat poorly when on the road, but here’s food for thought for the next time you reach for the Golden Arches: You’ll have to walk 9.5 miles to burn off all the calories from one Big Mac Meal. I wonder how many trips around the trade...
That’s the name of one of the songs by Dr. Sam and The Frivolous Action Blues Band, whose CDs would make great giveaways for a physician meeting--or any event whose partipants are into healthcare issues. Physician Sam Bierstock has been...