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Jan. 30th, 2008
The great outdoor fridge
Jan. 30th, 2008 07:47 amKicked it into high again after sputtering along with a couple of 40 degree days. It's a cool -14.1 degrees fondly Fahrenheit at Minneapolis Washburn High School. With a WSW wind of 8 MPH, 78% humidity, and a dew point of -19, the wind chill is -32. We'll warm slowly today to a mild high of 5 degrees, and then cool back down to -7.
It's a great day for chilling white wines, making ice cream. Speaking of ice cream:
Special Flavor: The Big Rhubarb
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
It's a great day for chilling white wines, making ice cream. Speaking of ice cream:
Special Flavor: The Big Rhubarb
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
COOL-HEADED intellectualism may prevail here under most circumstances, but not when ice cream is at stake.
Two weeks ago, when the Massachusetts Revenue Department shut Toscanini’s, a revered ice-cream shop, for nonpayment of taxes, customers were livid — but not at the shop’s owners, who the state said owed $167,810, mostly in sales taxes but some payroll taxes.
They rose in defense of Toscanini’s, donating more than $30,000 in one week to help the owners, Gus and Mimi Rancatore, make enough of a payment to reopen. Sam Mehr, a college student who works there and set up a Web site to solicit contributions, said that about 300 poured in between Jan. 18, the day after the shop was seized, and last Friday.
They came from students at Harvard and M.I.T.; alumni living as far away as Hong Kong; bike messengers who stop at Tosci’s, as the shop is known, for coffee and conversation; children and retirees who cannot live without their weekly Tosci fix; and more. More
Re:John Edwards
Jan. 30th, 2008 09:20 amBreaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
DEMOCRAT JOHN EDWARDS TO DROP OUT OF '08 PRESIDENTIAL RACE, ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED
DEMOCRAT JOHN EDWARDS TO DROP OUT OF '08 PRESIDENTIAL RACE, ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED
Wrong Place to Park
Jan. 30th, 2008 08:08 pmOre. Boy Picks Wrong Place to Park Bike
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:50 p.m. ET
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- If it's on the floor at the Goodwill store in Salem, it's for sale. So when Cody Young parked his bicycle in the wrong place, it got sold. Not only that, the bike that cost $232 four years ago went for $6.99. ''That was just insulting,'' the seventh-grader said.
Young said he and friends went to the store on Sunday to look at speakers. He didn't have a lock, but his friends told him they'd previously parked inside the store. He left it near other bikes that were for sale. While they were shopping, his black BMX bike was sold. More
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:50 p.m. ET
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- If it's on the floor at the Goodwill store in Salem, it's for sale. So when Cody Young parked his bicycle in the wrong place, it got sold. Not only that, the bike that cost $232 four years ago went for $6.99. ''That was just insulting,'' the seventh-grader said.
Young said he and friends went to the store on Sunday to look at speakers. He didn't have a lock, but his friends told him they'd previously parked inside the store. He left it near other bikes that were for sale. While they were shopping, his black BMX bike was sold. More