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What's the deal with the Pink Pony Nude Theatre? According to press reports, a couple of the hijackers spent time at this Florida strip club. They drank vodka and orange juice while enjoying the show. So were these guys really religious zealots? Apparently their love of the Koran allowed them to overlook its prohibitions on drinking and cavorting with women. (Of course, they also overlooked the Koran's prohibitions on shedding innocent blood, a point rightly made by Muslims around the globe who have swiftly denounced the attack.) The Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported that one of the hijackers...
...classic on its last album, Renegades (2000). Apropos of another of its Renegades covers, Kick Out the Jams, Rage aimed to be a modern-day MC5, using hard-edged music to ram through a hard-nosed message that was less about peace and love than about old-fashioned, a-pink-slip-and-a-six-pack populist anger. But they were also one of the few acts in recent years to crack the charts with an unfiltered political message. They were, in their words, "calm like a bomb." Even higher-profile, socially conscious artists like Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen have...
...Valley Vista Kiwi Farm. Coming soon: Cuba's mamey sapote (which tastes like a cooked sweet potato), the yellow kiwi (smoother, less tart than the green type), and the jackfruit (fibrous, fleshy, richly flavored). Then there's the Vietnamese dragonfruit, a crunchy cactus that one gourmand called a "psychedelic pink-and-lime-green hand grenade." Snapple is using it in a new "smart drink" line called Elements, but the real thing is also "going to be tremendous," says Meyer. Not as promising is the durian of Southeast Asian, which the farmer says "smells like a toilet but tastes wonderful...
...stream of blood and pink slips - and the threat it poses to consumer confidence and spending - finally drying up? The overall totals are still scary - 1.12 million layoff announcements is still 83 percent more than at this time last year, and 3.3 million people filing for continued unemployment claims is the most since this time in 1992, when there was a recession on. And they?re still rising - the four-week rolling claims average edged up to 398,000 this week from 394,500, and the unemployment number for August, due out Friday, is expected to tick up again...
...help. The saying goes, a slowdown is when your neighbor's out of work; a recession is when you are. And while the unemployment picture is not really all that bad - as the August unemployment number is expected to show, not all announced cuts turn into real cuts, some pink slips get torn up, and decently skilled workers are finding other jobs - a million job cuts is the kind of number that can make even a patriotic consumer stop and think: What if next month I'm the neighbor...