Friday, May 16, 2008
Used or new?
Best time to buy ... bargain used car
Published: Today
IT'S the best time in years to buy a used car – despite fears of a credit crunch, say car experts.
Adrian Rushmore, Managing Director of Glass's Guide, says buyers will get the "red carpet treatment" from dealers and he predicts that prices will fall by at least three per cent.
magic marijuana
Sydney suburb tagged 'leafy' for all the wrong reasons
By PM's Karen Barlow
Posted Fri May 16, 2008 6:00pm AEST
Updated Fri May 16, 2008 6:11pm AEST
On The Kraal Drive in Blair Athol, police drug investigators picked over a spartan house.
Dozens of small potted marijuana plants were stacked in the open garage and officers removed elements of a sophisticated indoor cultivation system including large bulbs and light reflectors.
meet solace
content management
clipped from avialblah.blogspot.comrelationship freedom
Woman charged in bullying of teen who later killed herself
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Thursday indicted a woman accused of fraudulently using a MySpace.com account to "cyberbully" a Missouri teenager who later hanged herself because she believed she was being rejected by a 16-year-old boy she met on the social networking Web site.
Lori Drew, 49, of O'Fallon, Mo., faces three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl and one count of conspiracy.
autistic
clipped from shine.yahoo.comAutism: Should there even be a cure for it?
striped of pension
clipped from http://www.abc.net.au/news/
The pensioners were protesting against their treatment in the Federal Budget.
Pensions a matter for the Henry commission: Rudd
Posted 3 hours 6 minutes ago
Updated 3 hours 0 minutes ago
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has acknowledged many pensioners feel hard done by in the federal Budget.
A group of pensioners have taken their clothes off in central Melbourne to protest against the lack of an increase in their welfare payment in the Budget.
food, wine,
clipped from http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/wine/2008/03/07/lunch-deal-business-forbeslife-cx_pl_0307food.html
When Ronald Perelman walks to his table at Michael's restaurant in New York, a server is usually right behind him with his diet soda at the ready.
"And, right behind that server," says general manager Steve Millington, "there's usually another server waiting in the wings with some green tea" just in case that's what Perelman wants that day.
