July 30, 2009

FedEx Priority Overnight gets lost in translation

By Calvin Palmer
I like to think that I have a reasonable grasp of the English language and know what words mean. I also believed that those meanings were universal, thus enabling easy and unequivocal communication between individuals. Apparently I am mistaken.
I sent a package to Carl Zeiss, to its headquarters in Thornwood, New York, on Tuesday. The [...]

July 30, 2009

Baby ripped from womb found alive and woman arrested

By Calvin Palmer
The baby girl ripped from her mother’s womb has been found alive in New Hampshire and a woman neighbor is being held on $2 million bail.
Julie Corey, 35, of Worcester, Massachusetts, a former neighbor of murdered mother Darlene Haynes, was arrested with a baby girl in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Corey was arraigned today in [...]