Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent on Yahoo! NewsSource: Yahoo! News
"The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com."
I really want want to know what this man really has to offer for us as Americans.
Report: Athletes test scores lag behind classSource: MSNBC
Football and men's basketball players are averaging hundreds of points less on their college entrance exams than their classmates, according to a newspaper's study of 54 public universities.
Mean cuisine: An Axis of Evil cookbookSource: MSNBC
Political analyst and South Asia expert Chris Fair dishes about her new cutting-edge cookbook, "Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States"; why talking foreign affairs is safer over dinner, and the politics of falafel.
Mean cuisine: An Axis of Evil cookbookSource: MSNBC
Political analyst and South Asia expert Chris Fair dishes about her new cutting-edge cookbook, "Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States"; why talking foreign affairs is safer over dinner, and the politics of falafel.
Beckhams are Poor and Becks Source: The Sun Newspaper Online
In Pictures: They've been transformed into average folk by computer wizards for a new viral email.
It also features mock-ups of how Jo-Lo, Tom Cruise and Britney might have looked without fame and fortune.
Daily update from my partyID-weighted polling average. For more information on the methodology and for the spreadsheet I used to calculate these numbers, visit:
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October 31st
Several days ago I started accumulating the polling data from as many of the pollsters as I could, and starting averaging their results together.
Study: Urban areas are the ultimate 'bear trap'Source: MSNBC
Urban black bears are much heavier and more likely to die violent deaths than their wilder peers, a new study found. And if female, they're more likely to get pregnant at a younger age.
EPA: Your Life is Worthless, or Rather $6.9 MillionSource: cato-at-liberty.org
Splashed across the front pages today — well, at least one paper I saw — are headlines about the EPA slashing the value of life revising the value of a statistical life downward.
Have an Average DaySource: Utne
I once was talking to my friend and mentor Steve Chandler when he said to me, "Have an average day!" Taken aback, I asked him what he meant. Isn't the idea to have great days, even exceptional ones?
Do we spend too much time at our Computers?Source: the Mail online
The average Brit will spend an astonishing 24 years and eight months of their lives sitting in front of a computer - an amazing 8,984 days spent writing emails, surfing the net or working.
Another day in the life of Mr and Mrs Average FinnSource: Uutiset - HS.fi
The roughly 40-year-old Finn is at the halfway point of his life.
He lives in a residential block in a 3 to 4-room flat of 78.4 square metres that he owns and he pays a housing loan on, of which he still has left EUR 22,400 euros owing to the bank.
College prices keep rising for 2006-07 school yearSource: CNN
The average cost of a four-year private college jumped to $30,367 this school year, the first time the average has broken the $30,000 mark.As they have for the past 11 years, average college costs rose faster than inflation, according the latest report from the College Board, a n …