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...interesting Ultimate tidbit: despite the sport's name, the quickest way to offend an frisbee player is to call the spinning object a "frisbee." It is a disc. FlyBy just thought you should know in order to avoid future scuffles...
...room who can even tell you the difference between place and show (those are names for finishing 2nd and 3rd, respectively). Don't worry about that part...the announcer will harp about odds here and there, but the race will be the event. One quick tidbit though: there's already been a ton of intrigue when this morning, race favorite I Want Revenge was pulled due to injury. Expect the winner of the Kentucky Derby to win the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness, but falter at The Belmont Stakes. Remember Funny Cide, War Emblem, Smarty Jones...
...think this is the latest, depressing tidbit from the historic real estate bust in the United States, think again. The other former global growth engine - China - which saw its own real estate bubble expand in the last five years, has now got its own property market problems - and they're intensifying. (See pictures of Beijing's changing skyline...
...tidbit from Harvard Business School, which held a weeklong course this month geared to help women re-enter the workforce: steer clear of the term part time. Use flexible hours instead. "Part time has a connotation of not full commitment," says Timothy Butler, who chairs the Harvard program, which cost attendees $5,000 apiece. Cheaper options include iRelaunch's $125 one-day return-to-work sessions around the country and its new $19.99 webinars. The first topic: What the heck is LinkedIn, and how can it be used as a job-search tool...
...months later. The New York Times weighed in at the turn of the year, opining that Vogue had become "stale and predictable" during Wintour's 20-year reign. Overseas, newspapers and magazines from England to Thailand picked up the tale. Somewhere it acquired the too-good-to-fact-check tidbit that Wintour was to become an ambassador to France. (See the top 10 fashion faux...