“I’m Preggers — Sike!”: The Great Pregnancy Ruse
For six months, high school student Gaby Rodriguez walked the halls, withstanding the stares and judgment of her peers as her belly grew with child. Or so it seemed.
For six months, high school student Gaby Rodriguez walked the halls, withstanding the stares and judgment of her peers as her belly grew with child. Or so it seemed.
This year Nathan’s Famous is hosting their 96th hot-dog-eating contest, but it will be the first in which the men and women separately devour as many frankfurters and buns as they can in 10 minutes. While the rules will be the …
Following a sleepover, two 14-year-old friends were found hanged last weekend. The families were left puzzling over cryptic notes and Facebook posts, trying to figure out if they had missed the signals — and if bullying was the catalyst.
The makers of a wine called MommyJuice are trying to get a California court to declare that they’re not infringing on the trademark of rival wine Mommy’s Time Out. (NewsFeed meanwhile ponders whether both companies might want to …
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Recently released FBI documents show that Harland Sanders, better known as the Colonel of Kentucky Fried Chicken, received a threatening letter and a note warning that he was “in grave danger of being murdered.” Colonel Sanders, …
New details have emerged about Chipotle’s venture into the exotic world of Asian cuisine. Is this a genius move, or will it be the culinary equivalent of Michael Jordan playing professional baseball?
The Internet was up in arms when a video of a six-year-old girl’s TSA pat-down went viral. One member of Congress wasn’t happy, either.
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Random House has uncovered seven Seuss stories that were published in magazines in the 1950s but have never appeared as books. Acceptable reactions include “Happy as a clam, I am!” and “Oh, the fun words I’ll get to say!”
Science can surprise us, challenging deeply held beliefs and pushing us toward more enlightened frontiers. Science can also just reaffirm our deeply held beliefs, giving us means to be slightly more obnoxious during cocktail-hour …