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Steven Begleiter isn't the only Wall Streeter to have hit pay dirt at the poker tables in Las Vegas. But he might become the first to claim the game's biggest prize - and in an odd way he owes it all to his former employer, the collapsed investment house Bear Stearns...
Modern media did not invent greed, eccentricity or lust for attention. What they did was monetize them. There have long been odd families and obscure men pursuing bizarre theories and cobbling together flying machines in their backyards. But only in the reality-TV era has unstable behavior become a valid career choice. Only now are questionable parenting decisions the stuff of a lucrative family business. Say whatever you want about Jon and Kate Gosselin, their divorce proceedings entail numbers with a lot more zeroes than your typical young Pennsylvania family encounters...
...spurring hundreds of theories about their fate. The movie dutifully covers the high points and a few details you didn't learn in grade school - including Earhart's great passion for Gore Vidal's father and how much of her celebrity was contrived and manipulated - but it leaves the odd impression of being merely a very long trailer for a film you'd actually love to see. (See the top 10 famous disappearances...
Babeland sells four times as much of its Naked organic lubricant as it does of a national synthetic brand. "It just goes to show that if they have choices, customers pick more eco-friendly and natural options," Cavanah says. (See 10 odd environmental ideas...
...people aboard spent some 78 minutes out of contact with air-traffic control - a period that reportedly ended only when a concerned flight attendant contacted the pilots by intercom - the plane turned around over Wisconsin and landed safely. The pilots told authorities they were discussing "airline policy" during their odd detour, though many observers believe a more plausible explanation is that they simply fell asleep at the controls. An analysis of the plane's cockpit recorder should reveal what was happening up front, but if the speculation is right, it wouldn't be the first time a pair of pilots...