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The growing popularity of swine flu parties -- aimed to help you get the antibodies early -- doesn't impress Bryony Gordon IT'S my birthday next weekend. I am going to have a party, to celebrate exactly what I do not know. Managing to keep myself alive for another year, against all the odds? Being one step closer to 30, the age at which women officially become desperate and undesirable (according to a bloke I know who is 40, with a receding hairline and a paunch)? Or because when someone asks what you're doing for your birthday, responding with "having a party" sounds better than just saying "crying"? Anyway, this do. I have a venue. I have some alcohol. I have amazing party snacks such as Wotsits, iced gems, and cheese and pineapple hedgehogs. I have Party Poppers and streamers. I have games that we can play, such as "Who... [read full story]
By Kevin Dougherty, Stars and Stripes European edition, Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Kevin Dougherty/Stars and Stripes Mannequins depict a scene from McAuliffe’s Cave at a small museum in the basement of a building on Heintz...
A Hawaii man accused of selling military secrets to China has been found competent to stand trial. U.S. Magistrate Kevin S.C. Chang says Noshir Gowadia's personality may make him a difficult defendant. But Chang says Gowadia's...
Brynwood Partners VI LP, a private investment firm in Greenwich, Conn., said Monday it bought energy bar company Balance Bar Co. from Kraft Foods for an undisclosed sum. Brynwood VI said it has recruited management to operate...
Britain's Office of Fair Trade likely won't force the proposed mobile merger in the U.K. to undergo a competition review, speeding its approval by six months Orange and T-Mobile, the UK mobile phone companies, are likely to see...
