Was $300 a month, now $4 a month

Nice shiny toe nails for everyone. You get old the toe nails get narly, nevermore.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com Digger, the repulsive cartoon character at left, has symbolized many things to many people. Today, Wal-Mart may have put the final nail in his coffin by adding the expensive drug he pitched to its list of $4 generics. Digger sold Lamisil, Novartis’s pill for fungal toenail and fingernail infections. For Novartis, he represented the nastiness of a fungal infection under your nail. For the FDA, he showed that drug companies sometimes go too far in their ads. And some health plan officials saw the Digger ads and other Lamisil pitches as revealing the problem with direct-to-consumer drug advertising: They believed he drove consumers to ask their doctor for a pill they really didn’t need. And the treatment was expensive — more than $300 a month.

9/11 Survival Tale a Lie?

Fact or Fiction?

clipped from news.aol.com For years, Tania Head has told of her dramatic rescue from the carnage at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and of how her fiance died in the terrorist attack. Her account is packed with remarkable twists and turns that she has shared with hundreds of people. But not one part of the story has been verified. News Bloggers: Survivor or Liar? > Full Coverage In 9/11 Survival Tale, Pieces Just Don’t Fit

Sefaring Murder Mystery Continues Two Held

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com The story of hijacking and murder at sea being told by one of two men who chartered a yacht whose four-member crew remains missing is too far-fetched to be believed, the cousin of the boat’s captain said Thursday. “The story doesn’t make sense that [hijackers] killed my whole family but spared these two people that chartered the boat, then put them in a life raft with all their luggage,” Jon Branam told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer. “If the boat was to be hijacked, they’d kill everybody and take the boat. None of it makes sense.”

Pictures Taken At Just the Right Time

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Shadow Army

clipped from www.motherjones.com Americans are known for outsourcing everything. So, why not the Iraq war too? Currently, contractors in Iraq number more than 180,000, according to the Associated Press. 137,000 of them are working for the Department of Defense, and thousands more have been separately contracted by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Their number is greater than the 163,000 U.S. military personnel in Iraq now. As journalist Jeremy Scahill writes, "In essence, the Bush administration has created a shadow army that can be used to wage wars unpopular with the American public but extremely profitable for a few unaccountable private companies." And this "shadow army" is accountable to no one, thanks to the immunity granted by U.S. authorities following the invasion in 2003, which essentially prohibits Iraqi courts from prosecuting contractors.

Brain Activity Might Point to Early Alzheimer's

clipped from alzheimersreadingroom.blogspot.com A team at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the brains of 13 patients with mild Alzheimer's disease, 34 patients with mild cognitive impairment, and 28 healthy people (averaging about 73 years of age) as they did a memory task.

Border Fence a Mess

Anyone surprised?

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com A $20 million pilot program to safeguard a 28-mile stretch of rough, mesquite-dotted terrain that straddles a smuggling corridor south of Tucson was supposed to be operational in June but now is expected to be delayed until the end of the year, according to the officials at the Department of Homeland Security who are overseeing it. Ground radar and cameras that were to identify illegal border crossers so that armed patrols could be dispatched to capture them have had trouble distinguishing people and vehicles from cows and bushes. The sensors are also confused by moisture, the officials said.

Do you think you have what it takes to work for Google?

Here is a sample of typical Google job interview questions.

How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?

How would you find out if a machine's stack grows up or down in memory?

If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands?

In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. if they have a girl, they have another child. if they have a boy, they stop. what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?

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1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

2. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?

3. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?

4. How would you find out if a machine's stack grows up or down in memory?

5. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.

6. How many times a day does a clock�s hands overlap?

7. You have to get from point A to point B. You don't know if you can get there. What would you do?

8. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It's very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval?

9. Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?

10. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. if they have a girl, they have another child. if they have a boy, they stop. what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?

11. If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?

12. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!)

13. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it�s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?

14. You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?

15. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?

16. You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?

17. You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.)

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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease and Memory Loss in Later Life

The Evolution of Home Ownership rates

Forty three percent of households aged 20-34 already own a house up from 37 percent ten years ago. Sixty nine percent of American households own a home. With subprime loans no longer available and tighter lending controls it appears that the over hang of homes could last for a decade.

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Internet users cut back on sex and friends

clipped from www.google.com Yet a Web survey was the basis for articles by Reuters, the New York Post and InformationWeek claiming that 28% of Americans have let the Internet cut into time they spend with friends and 20% have cut back on sex to spend more time online. Just 20% of respondents said they could go without Web access for a week or more.

Indiana Jones 4 Plot Revealed Here

Don't look if you don't want to know.

clipped from www.nypost.com * Indy, played once again by Harrison Ford, and the Soviet army are both searching for a priceless skull made of crystal in the jungles of South America. * The Russians take Indy hostage and then blackmail him by threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and mother of his son, Marion Ravenwood, portrayed by Karen Allen. Cast as the son is Shia LaBeouf. * Cate Blanchett plays an evil Russian who grills Indy. "I saw Harrison Ford strapped to a chair and being interrogated," Nelson told the paper.

Indiana Jones Photo's

clipped from news.aol.com Photo Gallery: Jonesing for Discretion Paramount Pictures A man cast as a Russian dancer in Harrison Ford's fourth 'Indiana Jones' movie has revealed possible plot details to his hometown newspaper, angering director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas.     1 of 4

Dive Tectonic Plates in Reykjavik

clipped from information.travel.aol.com Location: Reykjavik, Iceland Cost: About $2,000 per person, including hotel and airfare from Heathrow Airport Tour: Explore underwater landscape between two tectonic plates in Iceland's crystal clear waters on a three-day diving expedition with London-based travel firm Black Tomato. More Adrenaline Adventures Up Next: James Bond Bungee

James Bond Bungee Jump

Wow, you need some courage to try this. Think Golden Eye.

clipped from information.travel.aol.com The James Bond Bungee Location: Lake Locarno, Switzerland Cost: About $1,200 per person, including hotel and airfare from Heathrow Airport Tour: Fans of 007 will recognize the Verzasca Dam from 'GoldenEye,' where James Bond bungee jumped a staggering 720 feet. To follow in the agent's footsteps, head to the Swiss and Italian border around Lake Locarno and take the same leap of faith -- a tuxedo and wristwatch with remote detonator are optional. More Adrenaline Adventures Up Next: Shark Diving Travel Guide for Switzerland Travel Guide for Italy Fly to Zurich, Switzerland!

Buy a laptop for a child, get another laptop free

clipped from www.iht.com And he is reaching out to the public to try to give the laptop campaign a boost. The marketing program, to be announced Monday, is called "Give 1 Get 1," in which Americans and Canadians can buy two laptops for $399. One of the machines will be given to a child in a developing nation, and the other one will be shipped to the purchaser by Christmas. The donated computer is a tax-deductible charitable contribution. The program will run for two weeks, with orders accepted from Nov. 12 to Nov. 26. The machines have high-resolution screens, cameras and peer-to-peer technology so the laptops can communicate wirelessly with one another. The machine runs on free, open source software. "Everything in the machine is open to the hacker, so people can poke at it, change it and make it their own," said Bender, a computer researcher. "Part of what we're doing here is broadening the community of users, broadening the base of ideas and contributions, and that will be tremendously valuable."

Travel? You are being Monitored by DHS

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com U.S. Effort More Extensive Than Previously Known The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according to documents obtained by a group of civil liberties advocates and statements by government officials. The Automated Targeting System has been used to screen passengers since the mid-1990s, but the collection of data for it has been greatly expanded and automated since 2002, according to former DHS officials.