Purple is a versatile (多面性的) color. Combining the fire of red with the serenity (安详，宁静) of blue, it has the ability to soothe (安抚) as well as excite passion. Purple is prevalent (普遍的) in nature in everything from egg...
updated 3:08 p.m. ET May 18, 2009 Selling paint at Home Depot (家庭百货) can be more lucrative (获利的) than flying a commercial airplane. That startling (令人震惊的) fact emerged (出现) last week after three days of hearings (听证会) by...
Humble beginnings Tom Hanks had only appeared in a horror movie and an episode of the \\\\"Love Boat,\\\\" before joining \\\\"Bosom Buddies\\\\" in 1980. The sitcom(情景喜剧), which ran for just two seasons, told the story of two men (Hanks...
updated 1:14 p.m. ET May 11, 2009 SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. says the next version(版本) of Windows will go on sale in time for the holiday shopping season. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture(合资公司) of Microsoft and NBC Universal.) The software mak...
A design called ‘The Enchanted Lily Fairy’. The winners of the competition received a $7,500 first and all proceeds of the event, which has been running for the past four years, went to a local food bank charity....
NEW YORK — Consumers continued buying fewer lattes and coffees at Starbucks as the company said Wednesday its fiscal second-quarter profit dropped 77% because of big restructuring charges related mainly to the closure of 123 U.S. cafes. ...
The Bellagio's fountain show entertains visitors nightly. In the background is Bally's Las Vegas, left, and Paris Las Vegas, which has a 50-story Eiffel Tower replica in front. Over 37.5 million people visit Las Vegas each year. Lights from p...
Dastardly spam(垃圾邮件)! It’s a nuisance, potentially fraudulent（欺诈的）, could infect your computer – and has a hefty carbon footprint（碳排放量）. As the world filters out spam from its collective inboxes, and retrieves false pos...
April 2, 2009 (AP) Widely dismissed as a marginal(不重要的) player six months ago, the International Monetary Fund had become the world's economic firefighter(消防队员) with no blazes to put out. Today's global financial crisis has put the IMF ba...
Saturday Night Live(SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy filmed in New York City. Now the comedy show pokes fun at(取笑) the singer's adoption situation. ...
In light of today’s global financial crisis, managing your money effectively has become more important than ever before. This is very difficult to do in the best of times. You do need to keep a check on your money so you know how ...
As cresit card companies scramble to collect balances, many Americans who have never missed a credit card payment are now at risk of getting their credit scores smeared(诋毁，诽谤). ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Aiming to outdo Amazon.com and recapture the crown for the most digital titles in an e-book library, Sony is announcing Thursday a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader dev...
Question: How Will the Financial Crisis in the US Affect the Healthcare Industry? When the economy takes a turn for the worse, careers are impacted. While healthcare is fairly recession-proof, the industry as a whole is not completely immune to a ma...
An Irishman walks into a bar in Dublin, orders three pints of Guinness and sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When he finished all three, he comes back to the bar and orders three more. The bartender says to...
Barbie: The Making of the Doll Original 1964 Introducing Skipper Barbie Commercial Original 1960 Barbie Dream House Commercial Barbie Anthem: Explore 50 Years Ruth Handler...
The Chinese national legislature begins its tightly scripted annual meeting Thursday with an agenda dominated by the Communist Party's two main concerns: riding out(安全渡过) the global economic crisis and keeping citizens' unhappiness with their lot...
The U.S. military is prepared to shoot down a North Korean missile or rocket if President Obama should give the order, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command said Thursday. \\\\"If a missile leaves the launch pad(发射台) we'll be prepared to re...
2009 Mercedes-Benz M Class Base Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price: $45,750 (up to $5,000 dealer incentive on 2008 model) Environmental Protection Agency Combined Fuel Economy: 17 mpg Safety Features: Dual front and rear side-mounted ...
Remains of 15 of 50 victims of Buffalo crash recovered BUFFALO, N.Y. - The commuter plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot until just before it went down in icy weather, indicating that the pilot may have violated federal safety re...