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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/arizonas-immigration-law-comes-with-a-price/56416/
Amish are among America's most successful entrepreneurs--95% of Amish businesses are still open 5 years after they started, where the average new US business has a five-year survival rate of 50%:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/04/smallbusiness/amish_business_success/index.htm
The latest year available for analysis shows that one-star municipal funds had an annual total return of 2.77%, compared with a *loss* of 0.98% among the five-star municipal funds...Morningstar's director of mutual fund research says that it appears that the star ranking has *subtracted* value so far. Among all-stock funds, five-star funds performed basically the same as one-star funds:
http://moneywatch.bnet.com/investing/blog/make-money/morningstar-star-rankings-fail-mutual-fund-investors/156/?tag=col1;blog-river
An estimated 45 million Americans *still* do not buckle their seat belt in their cars, with an average of 38 people not wearing seat belts dying every day in car crashes...half of those people (19 lives each day!) could be saved if they wore their seat belts:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20100524/ap_tr_ge/us_travel_brief_seat_belts
2-year-old girl was fishing with a pink Barbie pole when she caught a little sunfish...and as she was reeling it in, a big muskie ate her sunfish and was caught in a net by her grandfather. The 30-inch, 20-pound fish was bigger than the toddler!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2010/05/barbie-fishing-pole-2yearold-20-pound-muskie.html
Bristol Palin is asking between $15k and $30k for each speaking appearance, talking about issues such as how to avoid getting pregnant as a teenager like she did:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/18/arts/AP-US-People-Bristol-Palin.html?_r=2
94-year-old Hazel Soares recently earned an undergraduate degree from Mills College:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100515/ap_on_re_us/us_graduating_at94