With Singapore’s birth rate plummeting faster than its employment numbers, the city-state’s government is trying to find new ways to get its citizens in the sack. But despite a state-sponsored speed-dating program, surveys show that Singaporeans still have less sex than almost anyone else in the world.
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With Portugal’s New Government, the Promise of Harsh Cuts
It may have been the politician’s practiced habit of emotional concealment, but in his concession speech last night, the smiling outgoing Portuguese Prime Minister Jos Socrates hardly looked like a man distraught with defeat. Nor, for that matter, did his opponent, Paulo Passos Coelho, seem gleeful with triumph
Greenspan predicts economic growth to hit 3 percent or higher
The U.S. economy will grow more than expected in the third quarter, but unemployment also will continue to increase and will pass 10 percent, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Sunday.
Obama mixes policy, humor with Letterman
President Obama mixed policy discussion with personal reflections on his daughters and, yes, a few jokes in an appearance on CBS’s “Late Show With David Letterman,” taped Monday afternoon.
Commentary: How Obama can fix the economy
President-elect Barack Obama has been holding his economic cards close to his vest.
Kate Major ‘despises’ Jon Gosselin
For a house once full of love and children, there sure seems to be a lot of hate going on with the Gosselins. This time, it’s former Star reporter Kate Major, who said she and Jon Gosselin had a fling shortly after his breakup with wife Kate Gosselin — an allegation he’s strenuously denied
Frog or toad found in Pepsi can, FDA says
The "disgusting" blob that Fred DeNegri’s wife says she poured out of his Diet Pepsi can was probably a gutted frog or toad, the Food and Drug Administration said.
9 Deals to Get You Face-to-Face with Nature
Travel news, updates and deals for the week of April 20, 2009 AIRLINES & AIRPORTS Air Transfer. Short on time before your flight You can now make it to Newark or JFK airport from Manhattan in just 8 minutes for $99 on US Helicopter.
BA pilots offered shares for pay cut
British Airways pilots are being urged to accept a deal under which they will receive shares in the struggling company in return for a pay cut, their union said Thursday. The move will save the company £26 million ($42 million) annually and is the latest measure to help the airline through the economic downturn.
Sully’s passengers reunited with items they thought gone forever
It is a boarding pass unlike any other. It’s a memory of a day that nearly was his last on earth. When a FedEx package arrived at Barry Leonard’s home recently, he had no idea it contained items from his flight that ended up in the Hudson River.