April 09--The U.S. Postal Service's new Maya Angelou stamp quotes someone else's poem. But Angelou sometimes recited the line in public and President Barack Obama attributed it to her in a speech. Mail carriers tend to go with the latest address.
Walgreens plans to close 200 existing stores while opening 200 elsewhere. It's a small percentage of overall operations, but maybe we're the ones who should have been saying "Be well" at the register.
Listeria is showing up in so many places lately, you'd think it was a Kardashian.
The U.S. Army has loosened a few of its restrictions on tattoos, enabling some inked men and women previously unable to enlist the opportunity to do so. No one should be judged by the colors of their skin.
Thursday's White Sox game in Kansas City, Mo., was delayed briefly because the telephone system the managers use to call the bullpen from the dugout a few hundred feet away didn't work. Like almost every mobile phone ever used at any ballpark.
Department of Transportation data show just 57.7 percent of O'Hare departures were on time in February. Which is one way to slow the mass exodus of Chicago residents.
NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan said this week she expects we'll "have strong indications of life beyond Earth" by 2025 and "definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years" because experts now know how to look and where. Presumably, you start in campus bars.
The RMS Titanic left port from Southampton, England, for its maiden voyage 103 years ago Friday. The vaunted ship would hit an iceberg four days later and sink despite reported efforts to properly position its deck chairs.
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