Study: Skin Color Can Give Online Sellers Upper Hand

Jun 1st 2010 – 6:52 PM |AOL News

Paul Sakuma, AP

(June 1) -- As anyone will tell you, even a minor transaction on Craigslist is not just a negotiation between two parties, but a negotiation between the human instincts for bargain-hunting and...

NY Cigarette Recycling Plan Would Put Butts to Work

May 26th 2010 – 5:08 PM |AOL News

Justin Sullivan, Getty Images

(May 26) -- Even with U.S. smoking rates near a historic low, you don't have to look far to find a spent cigarette on the ground. Cities and towns have for years launched anti-littering...

Texas Textbooks Massacre: Not So Scary After All

May 25th 2010 – 10:18 AM |AOL News

Austin American-Statesman / AP

(May 25) -- Late last week, the Texas Board of Education, in a party line vote, passed a series of controversial changes to the state's social studies standards. Among them: Joseph McCarthy was...

Why Olympic Mascots Are Always So Awful

May 20th 2010 – 5:18 PM |AOL News

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(May 20) -- Back in 2007, the body responsible for planning London's 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics discovered there were two slight problems concerning the Olympic logo they had unveiled. One...

Gringo Mask Lets Nervous Arizonans Whiten Up

May 6th 2010 – 3:30 PM |AOL News

Gringomask.com

(May 6) -- Foes of Arizona's stringent new immigration law -- which requires police to check the paperwork of anyone believed to be an illegal immigrant during traffic stops, arrests or detentions --...

Run Like Rick: A How-To on Jogging While Armed

Apr 30th 2010 – 2:00 PM |Special to AOL News

Matt York, AP

(April 30) -- It instantly became a part of Rick Perry lore, and likely not to the displeasure of the Texas governor: Jogging on a trail outside Austin, he told The Associated Press, he came across a...

The Final Word on Carl Levin's S-Bomb Tirade

Apr 28th 2010 – 7:54 AM |Special to AOL News

AP

(April 28) -- In terms of rhetoric, profanities serve two chief purposes. "They express emotions for the speaker and to the listener in a way that non-taboo words cannot," says Timothy Jay, a...

The SarcMark: What a Great Idea

Jan 22nd 2010 – 5:30 AM |Sphere

(Jan. 22) – Some years ago, my family traveled to Fort Myers Beach, Fla., to escape the New England winter and catch some Red Sox spring training games. Things quickly went awry. We'd rented...

Who's Afraid of a Populist Uprising? Not Bankers

Dec 9th 2009 – 10:46 AM |Sphere

AP

(Dec. 9) -- A high-level investment banker at one of the bulge bracket banks has been spending a lot of time lately contemplating the public's inexhaustible loathing toward everyone in his industry....

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