During a board meeting, the owner of a huge chain of fast-food restaurants announced his plans to pose as an entry-level employee at various restaurants in order to see what was going on.So, he left his family, mansion, limousine, and other luxuries he normally...
August 24, 79 A.D. began with a tremendous noise that woke anyone still asleep in the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. As they ran outside, they noticed a mushroom-shaped cloud rising from Mount Vesuvius, a volcano near these towns. Suddenly flaming residue and...
When my wife and I were first married, we were introduced to a remarkable man by the name of Larry Burkett through a video series on managing your money. Among other things we learned to budget and to do something incredibly radical: spend less than we make.I didn't...
How soon we forget! But Gordon Bell is trying to devise a system in which he can recall most anything in his life.For the past decade, Bell, a Microsoft researcher, has been “moving” the data from his brain onto computers. The process is much more involved than saving...
I was waiting for my luggage at the airport day before yesterday and I made an interesting observation: I think about ninety percent of travelers have black luggage. If you have a black suitcase on wheels, forget about just reaching out, grabbing it off the belt and...
Each plank of the boardwalk leading us to the natural hot springs at Hot Springs Cove was engraved with a special message, carefully carved into the wood by those who had come here before us. Messages varied from names of special boats or favourite pets to "who loves...
It was November and I was in the final process of moving back to my home in North Carolina. Only a few months before my wife of twenty-one years had died in a tragic single vehicle accident. My three minor children ages 10 to 16 were with her on that fateful morning...