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The Week’s What Next? Contest/Feb. 20, 2009

The Week’s “What Next?” Contest (emailed entries are due to whatnext@theweek.com by 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday, Feb. 16.) revolves around flight Aeroflot 315’s drunken pilot incident where passengers made enough of a fuss about the apparent intoxication of their pilot, they were able to have him removed and replaced. According to an article onContinue reading “The Week’s What Next? Contest/Feb. 20, 2009”

The Week's What Next? Contest/Feb. 20, 2009

The Week’s “What Next?” Contest (emailed entries are due to whatnext@theweek.com by 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday, Feb. 16.) revolves around flight Aeroflot 315’s drunken pilot incident where passengers made enough of a fuss about the apparent intoxication of their pilot, they were able to have him removed and replaced. According to an article onContinue reading “The Week's What Next? Contest/Feb. 20, 2009”

Study Finds People Like Study Findings

THE WEEK magazine’s contest for this week involved studies that state the obvious: A new study has determined that the closer teenagers live to a lot of liquor stores, the more likely it is that they will drink. Astounding! Please invent another scientific study that proves the obvious and provide the headline for that study.Continue reading “Study Finds People Like Study Findings”

The Week’s “What Next?” Contest

THE WEEK (motto: All You Need to Know About Everything That Matters) is a great weekly news magazine. We love it. It’s full of great writing from all over the world. Well, last week on the last page they added something new, a contest. The prize was one year’s subscription to The Week. We wereContinue reading “The Week’s “What Next?” Contest”

The Week's "What Next?" Contest

THE WEEK (motto: All You Need to Know About Everything That Matters) is a great weekly news magazine. We love it. It’s full of great writing from all over the world. Well, last week on the last page they added something new, a contest. The prize was one year’s subscription to The Week. We wereContinue reading “The Week's "What Next?" Contest”

Word (or Phrase) of the Year

From the American Dialect Society: What is the word or phrase which best characterizes the year 2008? What expression most reflects the ideas, events, and themes which have occupied the United States and its residents? Nominations should be sent to woty@americandialect.org. The best “word of the year” candidates will be: —new or newly popular inContinue reading “Word (or Phrase) of the Year”

Happy NaNoWriMo

Happy NaNoWriMo everyone. National Novel Writing Month starts November 1. It’s a great idea. Write a 50,000 word novella novel in thirty days.  I’m not going to do it even though it’s a great way to switch off the inner critic (because it’s all about the numbers) and just write. As the NaNoWriMo folks say,Continue reading “Happy NaNoWriMo”

A Not So Lame Contest

Jeffrey Goldberg over at the Atlantic magazine is having a writing contest. Winner gets a subscription to the Atlantic. You may recall a posting of mine the other day, I noted  an article titled, The Things He Carried, written by Jeffrey Goldberg. Goldberg contends that the Transportation Security Administration is concerned with catching the lowestContinue reading “A Not So Lame Contest”