I hate to break it to you, but if you get lost in the desert, you won't get this kind of attention:
The search for missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett in the rugged and remote high Nevada desert was cut back on Monday.
The Civil Air Patrol, which had 20 planes and 60 searchers aloft over the weekend, suspended further flights and left two planes and a small team on standby at the airport here.
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Getting there is none of the fun:
Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study released Tuesday. The nation's drivers languished in traffic delays for a total of 4.2 billion hours in 2005, up from 4 billion the year before, according to the Texas Traffic Institute's urban mobility report. That's about 38 hours per driver.
The minute you label yourself, whether it's "conservative" or "liberal" or "libertarian" or whatever, you become judged by that label. People will study everything you say to see if it lives up to the purity of that philosophy. Much better to just say what you think and let others come up with the label for you.
Well, this certainly helps me make up my mind:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Much of the hip-hop community seems to be embracing Sen. Barack Obama in the race for the White House, but rapper 50 Cent may prefer the Illinois Democrat's chief rival.
Asking patients to rate their pain is not that helpful:
It may be a painful truth, but a new study suggests that attempting to measure pain on a scale of 0 to 10 may not help doctors effectively treat the suffering.
Listen up, young ladies. The life you save could be mine, and you could help the whole human race in the process:
Older men who shack up with much younger women keep the Grim Reaper at bay for the human population and extend our species' lifespan, new research claims.
Another economic hard-luck story as a struggling family tries to get by:
Last week Ohioan David Coterel, 65, came forward to collect the $300 million he'd won in a Powerball lottery jackpot in Indiana. So why are Coterel and his co-winners - son, David Jr., and daughter, Lynn Hiles - walking away with only $145.9 million, before taxes? Because they had to choose either cash or yearly annuity for their winnings at the time of the ticket purchase - and they chose the full cash option.
Given shifting American attitudes about health care, we'll probably be talking about Hillary Care for some time. So many people want government to do something, anything, that it's probably a question of when, not if, we have some kind of national plan. To even complain of "socialized medicine" seems somehow quaint these days. But please be skeptical when any of the proponents talk about the cost:
Does it rock your world that, while almost the entire public conversation in America is about how to get us out of the Mideast, the French Surrender Monkeys have a greater grasp of what the world situation is than we do?
PARIS (AFP) — The world should brace for a possible war over the Iranian nuclear crisis but seeking a solution through talks should take priority, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday.
I don't have any guilty pleasures, because I don't even accept the concept -- I like what I like and make no apologies for it. But if I did have any, one would me my addiction to TV game shows that are Too Frivolous To Be Taken Seriously -- "Family Feud," "Wheel of Fortune," "Card Sharks," "Hollywood Squares"; I'll put down the "Remembrance of Things Past" or "The History of Civilization" that I'm reading in a heartbeat to get sucked into one of those diversions. Only my best friends know that "Jeopardy" -- at which I excel, naturally -- is not my only game show.
Yikes -- more information than I want to know:
The gender gap has widened when it comes to hygiene, according to the latest stakeout by the "hand washing police."
One-third of men didn't bother to wash after using the bathroom, compared with 12 percent of women, said the researchers who spy on people in public restrooms. They reported their latest findings Monday at a meeting of infectious disease scientists.
Another incisive story from a Great American college newspaper:
The University's Office of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Affairs plans to pick a new name by the end of the semester in an effort to be more inclusive.
I've given it a great deal of thought, and I do not think I was put on this earth to be told by Prince Charles how to live:
He's dabbled in painting, written a children's book, worked in television and launched a range of biscuits.
With so many strings to his bow it is perhaps unsurprising that Prince Charles should graduate to starring in a Hollywood movie.
Last week, I wrote that both News-Sentinel columnist Kevin Leininger and I thought that Republican mayoral candidate Matt Kelty's martyrdom posturing over his campaign-finance violations was wearing a little thin. That might not be the prevailing opinion out there among the voting pubic.
We must honor the wall of separation between church and state. We cannot tolerate the pollution of public spaces with religious expression. Of course, that's if you're a Christian, not, um, a Muslim:
Three times a day during their shifts at the Indianapolis International Airport, more than 100 Muslim cab drivers wash their feet.
I know there have to be government policies, and I know those policies have to be followed. Those of us who write about accountability for public funds even insist on it. Still, the bean-counting bureaucrats should use a little common sense. If I understand this story correctly, this is what happened:
1. County employee attends a conference in Chicago. Instead of paying $40 a day for parking , she has her husband drop her off and pick her up.
We all know that standards have relaxed so much that we are more tolerant of sex and nudity in the popular culture. But this suggests we have taken a further step:
Two decades after a nude photo scandal helped cost a Miss America her title, Americans may be adopting a more ho-hum attitude toward people who bare it all for the cameras.
Yes, we are caught in the mortgage crisis when it comes to subprime loans and the rate of foreclosures. But there is this side to Indiana real estate, too:
Riding the housing boom that started in 1991, prices for all houses here and across the country have climbed from a time when a "luxury home" was in the $300,000 to $500,000 range, says Briscoe.
In 1990, the U.S. Census report for Indiana listed 5,961 homes valued at $300,000 or more.
The Washington Post decides that people should be charged with actual crimes, not just possibly hinting that they might be willing to commit crimes:
Bobby Knight could learn a thing or two from this coach about "focus, focus, focus."
A 7-year-old boy was injured about 6 p.m. Thursday when he rode a bicycle into the path of a car being driven by the Muskogee High School head football coach.
Chase Thornton sustained a broken collarbone, road rash on a leg and shoulder and a knot on his head, said Capt. Chad Farmer.
