The New York Times reports on increased use of "vulgar" words on primetime television. On many nights this ... a “douche.” In total, the word has surfaced at least 76 times already this year on 26 prime-time network series, ... Television Council, which compiled the statistics at the request of The New York Times. That is up from 30 uses on 15 shows in all of 2007 and just six instances on ...

Aline van Duyn of The Financial Times reports that the U.S. listed capital markets have been in systemic decline for many years, quoting the forthcoming Grant Thornton study which will be released November 9th: The analysis finds that the number of US exchange-listed companies is down by more than 22...

Southwest Va. vintners hope winery takes root November 9, 2009 - 8:20am By JEFF STURGEON The Roanoke Times CHILDRESS, Va. (AP) - Rik and Melissa Obiso are living proof that wine is taking root in Montgomery County. Out their back door, the buds have set on the grape vines for Eclipse Winery, which is not yet in production but on its way. The Montgomery County couple is one of several with ...

The New York Times is now reporting that Saab Automobile AB is promising to refill the inventory for the remaining Saab dealerships in the United States immediately following the sale to the Koenigsegg Group. This is a truly positive response to the recent news about Saab dealerships in the United States running out of cars. I wonder

No one’s more surprised than we are to find that the New York Times, no less, already has acknowledged the global warming oops of the year: “Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on ...

... . The story is about a couple, Michaele and Tarek Salahi, who somehow got into a state dinner with the prime minister of India Manmohan Singh all without being on the guest list. The New York Times has based stories entirely off social media before. They reported on a Twitter backlash in the U.K. earlier this month, ignited when a user named brumplum criticized British actor Stephen Fry. This ...