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photo via usatoday Today, all over the world, people are celebrating Valentine’s Day by taking the opportunity to reaffirm their love to spouses, sweethearts and special ones.  While customs and traditions of celebrating vary from country to country due to social and cultural differences, the most popular Valentine’s Day gifts exchanged between loved ones are cards, fresh flowers and chocolates. Here’s a look at five different countries and how they celebrate Valentine’s Day. The Danish Valentine card is known as the “lover’s card”. Older versions of this greeting were transparent and, when held up to the light, depicted the image of a lover handing ... Read Full Story

W e’ve just come through a week with a lot of serious and imposing news… So, it’s time to take a break, and lighten our loads with some: PRINTER’S DEVILS… Back in the day when type was set by hand—mistakes that cropped up were blamed on printer’s devils—the young apprentices who actually mixed the ink, scrubbed rollers and fetched the type… These days newspaper pages are now computer generated—but it seems printers still have a devil of a time keeping mistakes out of ‘em… WASH AWAY MY TROUBLES…. Was the driver of this car blinded by the blast from high pressure hose the attendant ... Read Full Story

The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment PlanLarry Summers, Obama's top economic advisor has summed up the state of the economy today in what Forbes online is calling "promising", but somewhat "obscure" signs ... Read Full Story

Best Budget Beaches: Yelapa Mexico. Less of a tourist spot for now, so the prices are good. Bob Dylan used to hide out these. Thats a good enough reason for me on its own. I dont feel like going through all of them. Basically its just repeating the age old truth of “go where the locals go”. I like cheap motels and local restaurants. They are more comfortable, less expensive and tend to have a more relaxing atmosphere. Consumer prices drop record 1% in Oct: The country was riding a big period of inflation. The problem is that a lot of jobs have moved ... Read Full Story

J.P. Hayes is as honest as we like to think we are: He takes his chosen path seriously. Real love and dedication drives you to always do the right thing. However considering it was an accident keeping him sidelined for a year is pretty harsh. I think Golf is stupid, so i have a hard time taking anything they do seriously. Stocks fall after jobless claims jump: Companies using bad business practices, causing them to lose money and how do they always recoup their losses? By firing people that had nothing to do with them losing money. Its always the fat cats in the ... Read Full Story