by Sarah Anne Lloyd interestingfacts.com The iconic American mall emerged in the 1950s as a “third place” — a social environment separate from home and work — for the growing suburbs. Typically anchored by a department store, malls offered shoppers a chance to reach multiple places on foot, at least once they parked …
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The Language Of Customer Service Explained
by Dictionary Scoop There’s a reason why certain phrases keep coming at us from public-facing workers across many industries. Decades of trial and error have taught brands which words will put customers at ease, which expressions to reach for, and which to avoid at all costs — such as “unfortunately” or “I don’t …
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Ukrainian Center To Baylor After LSU Exit
by Kevin Burton Ukrainian Center Kate Koval has signed with Baylor basketball, after leaving LSU and tone-deaf coach Kim Mulkey. Mulkey, a four-time national championship coach, signed Russian center Anna Minaeva for the 2026-27 season, creating obvious tensions within the LSU locker room. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 without provocation and …
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Page 7 Lumbers Into The Windows 11 Era
by Kevin Burton It’s been almost five years since Microsoft released Windows 11. Now, this humble blogger is on board. As I type this, I’ve been using it for maybe an hour. Did I come kicking and screaming to 11? Not exactly, but you can see I didn’t rush into it headlong and …
Dolly Parton: One Thing Americans Agreed On
by Robin Levinson-Kingand and Sheila Flynn BBC Dolly Parton was a lot of things – a country musician, a philanthropist, an actress, a storyteller and a businesswoman. One thing she never was, however, was a politician. But don’t think it’s because no one asked her. In 1999, during an appearance on the talk …
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Restaurant’s Generosity Sends Worker To Yale
by Nathan Frederick Good News Network A powerful portion of ‘the American dream’ was served by a fast-food restaurant in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to help out one of its own. Thalles DeSouza’s story may have started in a treacherous neighborhood near Rio de Janeiro, but his next chapter will be written at one …
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1970s Songs That Were Banned From Radio
by Kevin Burton If one of your favorite new songs got banned from commercial radio today, you might not even know it. That, of course, would tamp down the outrage a bit. But back in the day radio was king, and airplay, or lack thereof, had big sales implications. What follows is …
Kids At Lemonade Stand Robbed At Gunpoint
by Drew Pittock USA Today A 14-year-old was arrested, and another suspect remains at large after an armed robbery at a lemonade stand in Boston, authorities said. The Boston Police Department announced last month that it was investigating an armed robbery at a lemonade stand, involving two suspects believed to be around 14 and 11 …
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FedEx Sued For Employment Discrimination
by Sydney Haulenbeek Courthouse News Service The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued FedEx Corp. on June 30, claiming the shipping company discriminated against four blind package handlers. FedEx has discriminated against blind employees who worked at its Kernersville facility, outside of Winston-Salem, the EEOC said in its suit, by not providing reasonable …
All In A Day’s Work: Well-Crafted Slang
by Dictionary Scoop The repetitive actions of each craft have spawned terms, idioms, and phrases that make up their particular tech lingo. Many of these expressions have transcended their natural realm to become a part of the universal language. These once-practical expressions now live on as reminders of how deeply language is tied …
