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Fast Facts About Amanda Knox • Born July 9, 1987, in Seattle, the daughter of Edda Mellas, a math teacher, and Curt Knox, a vice president of finance at Macy's; the couple divorced when Knox was a toddler...
Quotes About: "She firmly believes that because she's innocent, the evidence will show that and she'll be released. So, it's good that it's getting started. She's also nervous. I mean, they say horrible things about her." - Edda Mellas, Knox's mother, on the day the trial began (Good Morning America...
...Face-stuffing has been around for centuries, of course: the Edda, a collection of 13th-century Norse myths, tells of an eating contest between the god Loki and his servant (the servant won by eating the plate). But organized competitive eating - consuming as much as you can, as fast as you can, within a given period of time - is relatively new. According to Major League Eating, the sport's governing body (yes, there is one) the American version of the pastime began in 1916, the year that Nathan's Famous held its first Fourth of July hot dog-eating contest...
...Edda Rós Karlsdóttir, a senior director at Landsbanki, says Iceland's peculiar macroeconomic conditions pose the biggest challenge to maintaining investor confidence. With so few potential depositors at home, the nation's banks have little choice but to raise capital abroad. Furthermore, the size of Iceland's economy - the U.S. economy is roughly a thousand times larger - has always made it volatile, partially explaining its much-discussed $2.7 billion current-account deficit. "If my father decides to build a garage onto his house, it will almost show up in national accounts," she quips. So imagine...
...Fifty States,” an initiative to distribute 2,500 works of contemporary art to 50 selected art institutions throughout the country. The Vogels’ collection includes works of more than 170 contemporary artists. Among the artists whose works will be sent to HUAM are Michael Goldberg, Edda Renouf, Richard Tuttle, and Stephen Antonakos. Herbert Vogel, 85, a retired postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, 73, a retired reference librarian, told The Austin Chronicle, “we bought art we could afford and that would fit into the apartment.” The couple began collecting...