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W. Mark Felt: The mysterious Deep Throat
Few associate directors of the FBI will ever be as well known as W. Mark Felt.
Thing is, he wasn’t well-known at all, outside of the Washington Beltway, until five years ago today, when Vanity Fair scooped the Washington Post on its own guaranteed scoop.
The revelation wasn’t completely out of left field, as some had correctly presumed the identity of Deep Throat, the anonymous...
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GPS is getting an $8-billion upgrade →
Danville pilot 'Sully' retires from US Airways →
(03/04/2010) Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot from Danville who safely ditched a US Airways plane in the Hudson River in New York after it hit birds on takeoff, retired from the airline…
Sorting out current unemployment benefits →
(03/04/2010) The jobless got a temporary reprieve Tuesday night when President Obama signed a bill that extends federal funding for unemployment benefits and Cobra health care premium subsidies for…
Miami parents, daughter lived in car outside house... →
The ##: Newsweek.com Redesign Turning Heads →
As we luke-warmly predicted back in April, news sites continue to model simpler, blog/Tumblr-like layouts. For-sale Newsweek launched a redesign this week. (When our buddy @agolis tweets it, you know it’s a big deal.) The comparisons to a “blog” are far more prevalent than with…
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Napoleon
I admit, I don’t know if this is accurate, but it’s still cool.
bschwartz:
Napoleon.
Apoleon.
poleon.
oleon.
leon.
eon.
on.
Which, being arranged in the form of a sentence, gives, ‘Napoleon on o leon leon eon apoleon poleon‘–which is the Greek for ‘Napoleon, being the lion of the people, was marching on, destroying the cities!‘ – Appleton Morgan, Macaronic Poetry, 1872
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How to make your own organic fertilizer →
(06/03/2006) If your garden supplies much of your family’s yearly food intake, you’ll want to do all you can to maximize your vegetables’ nutritional quality. The following potent, correctly balanced…
Kevin Costner may hold key to oil spill cleanup →
First South Florida oil spill training classes... →
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#TIME - The Iconic #Photo of #IwoJima
When AP photographer Joe Rosenthal watched marines hoisting the flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, he wasn’t sure he got the shot. It turned out to be the most famous photograph from WWII. Read more here.
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What's behind the violence in Jamaica
Answer: Christopher “Dudus” Coke.
His last name is apropos, as he’s believed to be a second-generation leader of the Shower Posse, an extremely violent drug gang from Jamaica that had its heyday in South Florida in the 1980s/90s cocaine wars.
Cops were tracking the Shower Posse and other gangs (which were called posses) 25 years ago in Fort Lauderdale, Miami and environs. The...
After 30 years, Smith & Hawken to close →
(07/10/2009) Nearly 30 years after the first Smith & Hawken store opened in Mill Valley, the gardening retail chain is being closed by parent company Scotts Miracle-Gro Co., which said it will drop…
Creative Alliance pays tribute to the songs of Bob... →
The art of tease: Burlesque and cabaret making... →