Now that I've turned 26, I see ageism everywhere.

Quoted: Fly on a Chinese airline and you will be pampered by flight attendants who look eerily alike. They are young, beautiful and practically the same height.

Watch magazines and retailers hailed the sale, at an auction in the lush Mandarin Oriental Hotel on the River Rhone. Omega trumpeted it, announcing that a "Swiss bidder" had offered "the highest price ever paid for an Omega watch at auction."

What Omega did not say: The buyer was Omega itself.

Quoted: Boeing said deliveries that had been scheduled to begin next May will be pushed back to late November or December 2008.

It was worth every second of no sleep.

Quoted: Blood-red lunar eclipse dazzles Pacific Rim skywatchers.

Quoted: A vehicle powered by 192 AA dry-cell batteries hit a top speed of 122.00 kilometers per hour (75.81 mph) during time trials in Japan Saturday. ...

Just building my case for being child-free

Quoted: "Part time usually means no insurance, sick leave, perks, promotions or seniority, so full time is the way to go when you have bills to ...

Why?

Quoted: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's second-highest ranking doctrinal official on Monday forcefully branded homosexual marriage an evil and denounced abortion and euthanasia as forms of "terrorism with a human face."

The attack by Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was the latest in a string of speeches made by either
Pope Benedict or other
Vatican officials as Italy considers giving more rights to gays.

Quoted: Capping four days of debate between scientists and representatives from more than 100 governments, Martin Parry, co-chairman of the team from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the effects of climate change were widespread and measurable, with much more to come.

"We're no longer arm-waving with models," said Parry. "This is empirical information on the ground." He added that the areas most affected were likely to be the Arctic, sub-Saharan Africa, and small islands and Asia's sprawling, crowded, flood-prone river deltas.

Quoted: "I don't think the attorney general's statement that he was not involved in any discussions of U.S. attorney removals was accurate," Kyle Sampson, who quit this month as Gonzales' chief of staff, told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I remember discussing with him this process of asking certain U.S. attorneys to resign."