CYBER MONDAY: Sites crash while I try to spend! (WTSP-TV Tampa)
Even though I have never been much of a online shopper, I thought I'd take a stab at Cyber Monday and contribute to our plummeting economy.  Oh, but look what I found...
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Chain store massacre: Tim Walker bids a bittersweet farewell to Woolworths (Independent)
On a lonely shelf at the back of an understocked store in a south-east London shopping centre, a big, blonde, half-price teddy bear sits staring glumly at his paws. "Is this what it's come to?," he seems to be asking himself. Just shy of its centenary year, in the last month before Christmas – when business ought to be booming –Woolworths, the poor bear's employer, is going out of business ...
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People got the power (Metro Times Detroit)
Got Milk? (11/5/2008) Will this producer-emcee become the latest rap superstar from Detroit?
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Pop Goes the Culture (Cape Cod Times)
'Twilight' sure to be screaming success with tweens.
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Crist proposes tuition increases for Florida universities (The Florida Times-Union)
Gov. Charlie Crist wants to give each of Florida's 11 state universities the power to raise tuition by up to 15 percent every year. An increase would have to be approved by a university's board of trustees and the Board of Governors, which oversees all the schools, Crist said ...
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Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
Looking over the seven page questionnaire that the Obama organization has for prospective appointees, several thoughts occurred:
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School picture day: A 30-second memory lasts forever (Greensboro News & Record)
“All right, handsome, look up here and give me a big smile! Say 'cheese!’” Jack Gregory, 8, squirms on the stool and frowns, just for an instant. He licks something that appears to be edible off his lips and flattens his brown sweater. There. Head up, shoulders relaxed. “Cheeeeeese!” He drags out the word into one glorious fake smile. Click. Thirty seconds, one shot. All done. Next. ...
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Retailer creates own cool karma (Louisville Courier-Journal)
When Greg Selkoe was in grammar school, he would often drop to the ground and break-dance for money in his hometown.
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The Most Promising Schools in America (Washington Post)
My publisher and I had a fight over the subtitle of my upcoming book, "Work Hard. Be Nice," about the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP). Okay, it wasn't a fight exactly. My editor at Algonquin Books, Amy Gash, is too polite and professional for that. It was a spirited discussion. Gash said the...
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