September, 2010
Is it good or bad that AirTran is merging with Southwest
Southwest Airlines paid $1.42 billion to merge with AirTran, which is also a large discount airline in the U.S.. Southwest can be able to compete with international carriers with the expansion that also gives it access to key eastern hubs. It threw some travel experts off their game to hear this. Some say that fees ...
Report shows 43 million Americans living in poverty last year
The government started keeping poverty statistics in 1959. More people fell below the poverty line last year than ever in the time since. Last year 43 million citizens fell to the poverty classification, the Census Bureau found. The number represents 14.3 percent of the United States of America population. The year prior, 13.2 percent fell ...
Jon Stewart able to capture majority with Rally to Restore Sanity
Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert created a brilliant plan where, as announced on September 16, dueling public rallies can be on Television. The dueling events, scheduled for the National Mall on Oct. 30, satirize fellow comic Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally that took place at the Lincoln Memorial in Aug. The Daily Show ...
Cancer patients do better with magic mushrooms states study
It was shown that terminally ill cancer patients, with hallucinogenic mushrooms, according to a 2005 study, cope better with the anxiety of death. Los Angeles researchers released a study Tuesday showing that the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, when given to a critically ill patient, will help them cope having the depression making it ...
Unbanked able to quickly obtain money with income tax return cards
Tax refund are, because of electronic banking and tax filing, harder to give to those without bank accounts. The solution, says the Treasury Department, are income tax refund debit cards. The "unbanked" or "underbanked" are the people who do not have any kind of banking account. These people do not obtain any kind of ...
