BlackBerry Force One Is Up to the Job - ABC News guardian.co.uk BlackBerry Force One Is Up to the Job ABC News - 5 hours ago By KI MAE HEUSSNER President Barack Obama will be the first president to use a BlackBerry while in the White House. Now that Barack Obama and his tech-savvy team have ascended to the White House, the more apt expression appears to be "...
Peanut popularity complicates salmonella probe - CNN WELT ONLINE Peanut popularity complicates salmonella probe CNN - 1 hour ago By Madison Park (CNN) -- It's not just inside neon orange crackers or slathered on the other side of jelly. The average American consumes more than six pounds of peanuts and peanut butter products each year. Video: More Than 30M ...
The NYT has an article today about the British NHS' National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE), which decides which treatments the NHS will pay for and which ones it will not. The basic premise is twofold - to prevent bankrupting the NHS by spending millions of dollars to keep people alive for another two weeks, and to put pressure on drug companies to reduce price. So far, it ...
... that matter, I should probably ask why people are still over-breeding. Animals have a carbon footprint, too. (Although much less than a human child.) And what about shelter animals? The thousands of animals who will only be euthanized if no one adopts them. My moral for this story is: don't buy a puppy or have a child when you can adopt one in need. REFERENCES: ConsumerAffairs --Petland
... spending it" In a way, that's quite the contrast to our national spending habits of 2-3 years ago: http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/pf/worst_savers/index.htm http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/consumer_literacy.html Woah! We're *SAVING*. Granted, we're doing so because economic times are increasingly tough. Although it receives very little mention, the dollar has been dropping so ...
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/cell_phones/att_wireless.htm Rob of Atlanta GA (07/26/08) re thread: dont hold the phone I have been a cellphone user about 20 years, and I try to keep my minutes rather low. I have often noticed headaches on a variety of brands (nokia & motorola) if I talk over 15 min., especially in the car, as if the car helps the radiation be more intense. I also get it if ...
String of Illnesses Afflicts NUTRO-Fed Pets I am really honked off by this. Nutro was always a good brand for me, and then this crap happens. I switched Roland a few weeks ago and watched his energy level plummet. He doesn't really run at the dog park anymore, won't play, and generally acts like a cranky old man. I went to the local feed store with the problem, and apparently people have been...
...can only get the sale price on the gift card even with a receipt. That's completely un-customer friendly. And what about people who register for weddings/baby showers at Target? You know you're going to get duplicates, and you can't return any of it. Moral is... don't shop at Target. And you can voice your opinions here... http://www.consumeraffairs.com/retail/target_returns.html
...What are Holiday Blues?" "Do's and Don'ts to Manage Holiday Blues," University of Maryland Medical Center. "How to Not Let Holiday Blues Color Your Job: Seasonal Depression and Anxiety can Seriously Affect Job Performance," MSNBC.com, Eve Tahmincioglu, 12/16/07. "Feeling the Holiday Blues? You Must have Children: Study Finds Parenthood Does Not Make People Happier," ConsumerAffairs.com, 12/22/05.
I've not posted a complaint here in a long while; a lot of it is because I'm sick of complaining myself. Quite a few of you have complained about shoddy service from SprintPCS . Many a time I expressed surprise in that a company that had been excellent to me (I've been a customer of theirs since October 2001) would treat my fellow customers like crap. If your goods and services aren't up to ...