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...hear on the phone from her son serving in the Army in Iraq: "Well, I got my Purple Heart." Those words, delivered in a morphine slur, gave life to Jocelyn Perge's second worst nightmare about her son Jim Beverly. Perge's ex-husband Charles Beverly felt his stomach drop when he got the same call from Jim, who had suffered shrapnel wounds to his face, hand and knee in the Dec. 10 grenade attack on a humvee. Then Charles experienced a powerful sense of relief. "He was on the phone, talking to me," he says...
...cliche goes, were raised by the mass media. And this fall, as grown children sometimes do, some of them began to neglect their mother. On the major broadcast TV networks, ratings among viewers 18 to 49 years old (the group most closely watched by advertisers) were down 8%. The drop-off was even worse among men under 35, the couch potatoes of the future. The rejection was almost poignant. You don't call? You don't write? It would kill you to pick up a remote...
Your old stuff: for goods valued below $250, no receipt is needed, which means you can drop donations in a Goodwill box as long as you keep a record of the date, location and items you gave. Above $250, you need a receipt from the charity, including a description of the property donated. Once you hit $500, your records have to include a description of how and when you got the property and how much it cost. And for merchandise worth more than $5,000, you need a professional appraisal...
Start with Yahoo Shopping shopping.yahoo.com) A Last-Minute Gifts link near the top of the home page pulls up a list of dozens of e-tailers, each with a smattering of items expected to be available up to the bitter end, along with drop-dead ordering deadlines. Last we checked, there were diamond-stud earrings from Ashford.com a Toffee Trio from Williams-Sonoma and Blister Guard socks from New Balance. (Selection is likely to change day to day. Real-time product updates from the merchants keep the list fresh, says a Yahoo spokeswoman...
...toms have it ..." His signature sign-off was, "But I don't give a hoot." The column was one of the most popular on the Bangkok Post's website?on average, 30,000 readers logged on to digest it every week?but the Post has decided to drop it. Said editor Veera Prateepchaikul: "Do you want something that's modern, or something from 30-40 years...