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- By Michael Kwan , February 01, 2012 @ 9:29am
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Research in Motion used to be the most corporate-centered smartphone company in the world, catering primarily to people in three-piece suits who had to look like they were busy all the time. Times have changed and now you want to be hip, cool, and connected.
cartoon stick people 07 Feb 2012 - 19 missing feared dead following collapse of three buildings in Rio de Janeiro
Up to 19 people are feared dead following the collapse of three buildings in Rio de Janeiro after three buildings in the heart of the city's business district collapsed.
cartoon stick people 07 Feb 2012 - Your Plate Can Help You Eat Healthy
Often things from the past return with new importance. The new Healthy Eating Plate that the Harvard School of Public Health unveiled a few months ago reminds me of the plastic sectional plates with cartoon characters in each section I set out for my children's dinner when they were young.
cartoon stick people 07 Feb 2012 - Why are these daft decals so popular?
"MY Family" stickers landed a woman in court recently. If there was any justice, it would have been the car owner in the dock.
cartoon stick people 07 Feb 2012 - Political Insider: Egypt's politics boil over at a Jersey City flag-raising
View full sizeAP photoAn Egyptian protester holding a national flag shouts anti-Egypt's Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) slogans during a protest at Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Monday. Some of the stress being felt in the Arab country...
cartoon stick people 07 Feb 2012 - These are a few of my favorite things about Japan
The Just Be Cause column has been running now for four years (thanks for reading!), and I've noticed something peculiar: how commentators are pressured to say "nice" stuff about Japan. If you don't, you get criticized for an apparent "lack of balance" ? as if one has to pay homage to the gods of cultural relativism (as an outsider) or tribal commonalities (as an insider).
cartoon stick people 07 Feb 2012 - Nashuan eyes moose T-shirt success
NASHUA ? Mike ?Moose? McGuiness, 30, has lived in New Hampshire all his life, but he?s never seen in person the antlered bull for which he?s nicknamed. That doesn?t mean the Nashua native can?t draw one though. For about a year, McGuiness has been printing cartoon images of moose on T-shirts and selling them to friends, family and animal fans around the region. The character, sketched by ...
cartoon stick people 07 Feb 2012 - Cartoon Tycoon: Alaska's 'Tundra' Comic Strip Expands to More Than 500 Markets
As of this month Chad Carpenter's "Tundra" comic strip has officially expanded to 503 newspapers and other publications. They include big-circulation industry giants like Newsday and the Los Angeles Times and more obscure papers like The Gleaner of Kingston, Jamaica.
cartoon stick people 07 Feb 2012
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