I was just reading an article about a man in Indiana who was been sentenced to eighteen months in jail for forcing his kids to stab their family pet cat to death! According to the eleven year old son's testimony, the man wanted to teach his children to kill, and forced them to kill the cat! The man says he was intoxicated at the time … Continue reading the story "Teach your children kindness"
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Some gas stations are only accepting cash now!
As if the price of gas soaring isn't making life harder for consumers already, now some gas stations are starting to refuse credit cards as payment for gasoline and are adopting a cash only policy! They say that as the price of gasoline goes up, their costs of processing credit cards is going up, cutting too deeply into their profits to be able to continue to … Continue reading the story "Some gas stations are only accepting cash now!"
Plumpynut
I just turned on the television a few minutes ago when I looked at the clock and realized that 60 minutes was half over! I really like to watch 60 minutes, I learn a lot from it. They were doing a story about a food called Plumpynut that is helping to keep children in Nigeria alive. I'm afraid that I missed most of the story … Continue reading the story "Plumpynut"
The big bailout
I have been hearing about how no one really is happy about the terms of the big bailout plan that is going to save the big financial companies of the United States. I'm not happy that it is going to cost the taxpayers so much money, but I am happy that they have come up with a plan because ultimately it will save our economy … Continue reading the story "The big bailout"
13 million-digit prime number
I was reading on the Yahoo news website that a new Mersenne prime number has been discovered by UCLA mathematicians last month. It has 13 million digits! They discovered the number by using a network of seventy five different computers running Windows XP. (Take THAT Vista!) (I don't like Vista!)
The discovery makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for finding … Continue reading the story "13 million-digit prime number"