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...list. One quick sweep of the blogosphere reveals a multitude of Tagged victims, dating back to 2007. But the scam is red-hot now. "Don't Get Tagged!" one blogger warned on June 6. "Spread the word: Tagged stinks!" shouted a Facebook friend the same day. The Better Business Bureau's grade for Tagged: a big fat F. Yes, I blame myself for being gullible. But the site was confusing and dishonest. And it's nice to know I'm not the only sucker out there...
Americans are spending less; no surprise there. Figures out this week from the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis show that in April overall consumer spending was down 0.1% from the month before. People are now saving 5.7% of their disposable income, the most since 1995 and a cosmic increase from the zero-savings days of just a few years...
...downturn than the rest of the country has. Jobs in the banking and insurance industries have fallen just 5% since the start of the recession. That's half a percentage point less than the 5.4% overall drop in nongovernment employment over the same time period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). And it is far less than the pain experienced by workers in other sectors of the economy...
...around 10:30 a.m., College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds notified all undergraduates of Joo’s death in an e-mail statement. Neither administrator’s e-mail disclosed the cause of death, but both emphasized the availability of counseling resources at University Health Services and the Bureau of Study Counsel for students coping with an undergraduate death—the last of four this year—while preparing for final exams. On May 3, Eliot House hosted an informal gathering in the Masters’ residence to commemorate Joo’s life with more than...
...preliminary investigative report, released on March 6, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said Airbus had initially said it didn't know of any other similar events. But when the same thing happened again, involving a different aircraft, on Dec. 27, Airbus combed its computerized flight files and found data fingerprints suggesting similar ADIRU problems had occurred on a total of four flights. One of the earlier instances, in fact, included a September 2006 event on the same plane that entered the uncommanded dive in October (the other three flights had continued safely on). The same VCR-sized ADIRU...