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I'm cleaning out my desk b/c my office is moving next week, and stumbled upon some old Newsweeks. The quotes section is my favorite. You get some gems like these:
"It was still beeping, and that just gave me the idea to keep digging. I think it's a normal human reaction, especially when you think there might be gold down there." Henry Mora, 63, who dug a 60-foot-deep hole in front of his Montclair, Calif., home after his gold detector picked up a signal in his yard. He found nothing.
"I started punching the otter in the face, which I felt really bad a bout because it's cute...but it was killing my dog." Leah Vanon, who rescued her Labrador retriever, Jasmine, from an otter that came ashore and dragged the dog into the water in west Boca Raton, Fla.
"At $5.15 an hour, I get zero applicants--or maybe a guy with one leg who wouldn't pass a drug test." Idaho restaurant owner Rob Elder, on the difficulties of finding good workers with his state's low minimum wage, compared with nearby Washington state's $7.93 an hour, the highest in the nation.
"It was still beeping, and that just gave me the idea to keep digging. I think it's a normal human reaction, especially when you think there might be gold down there." Henry Mora, 63, who dug a 60-foot-deep hole in front of his Montclair, Calif., home after his gold detector picked up a signal in his yard. He found nothing.
"I started punching the otter in the face, which I felt really bad a bout because it's cute...but it was killing my dog." Leah Vanon, who rescued her Labrador retriever, Jasmine, from an otter that came ashore and dragged the dog into the water in west Boca Raton, Fla.
"At $5.15 an hour, I get zero applicants--or maybe a guy with one leg who wouldn't pass a drug test." Idaho restaurant owner Rob Elder, on the difficulties of finding good workers with his state's low minimum wage, compared with nearby Washington state's $7.93 an hour, the highest in the nation.