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...hoax, Mark Sanford's (ahem) hiking excursion and the gate-crashing Salahis' White House cameo? They all make the top 10 "FAIL moments" list - which also revives some gems that may have slipped your mind. Remember that time a Bolivian TV network claimed to have photos of the harrowing last moments of Air France Flight 447 - only to be informed they were actually stills of a scene from Lost...
...these mini-chick flicks to lead into conversations with kids about what beauty is all about. Some talking points: Pencil-thin princess waists are not real. And it's possible to look good without butt-length, straight hair. I'm having a hard time selling my daughter on that last bit. For one thing, she refuses to believe that Tiana has curly hair, despite numerous viewings of the trailer. "She's wearing a wig?" she suggested...
...have yet to traipse off to preschool and encounter pop culture, sandbox-style. I was once one of those mothers and still strive to be. I've never bought my girls a Cinderella or Ariel costume, and our DVD collection boasts no Disney titles, yet my daughter informed me last week, apropos of nothing, that Sleeping Beauty is to be referred to as Sleeping Beauty only when she's sleeping. Awake and alert, her name is Aurora. In other words, no matter how protective parents try to be, these princesses are pervasive...
...shutdown of more than 2,000 dealerships across the U.S., support for suppliers and special employee-attrition programs at GM operations in Europe and Australia. Despite the bankruptcy, GM also owes $17 billion to governments in the U.S., Canada and Europe that supported the company during the crisis last winter. The $17 billion debt does not include $3.2 billion in notes or preferred stock that GM also owes to employees' health care trusts, or VEBAs, in the U.S. and Canada. GM expects to repay the notes to U.S. and Canadian VEBAs with money from the eventual sale of new stock...
...economy may be showing signs of perking up, but the recession's gloom has hit the holiday-card industry. Greeting-card giant Hallmark has rolled out some 25 new recession-themed cards this year - up from just five last year. "We can say it: This wasn't the year that any of us had hoped for," reads one gold-inked card. Another shows a small Christmas tree with three wrapped presents underneath: "We don't have to have a lot to have everything...