Monthly Archives: October 2009

The UNESCO (Fantasy) List of Great Places to Visit

October 26, 2009
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The UNESCO list of World Heritage sites is an amazing catalog of wonderful things worth treasuring. It is also a fantasy machine for the traveler wanting to consider, at least, a tick-list of truly great cultural, natural and human places around the planet. #UNESCO

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Watch your money: Some U.S. savings bonds paying ZERO interest

October 26, 2009
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Did you know that some U.S. savings bonds are paying ZERO interest? A lot of folks are surprised to hear that. You don't expect something like that. That's not what the show-pride-in-America campaigns that fueled bonds sales since World War II promised. One man who helped market the bonds a decade ago says the...

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Consumer Columnist Dave Lieber Wins Another National Award

October 25, 2009
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Watchdog Nation book wins second national book award this year for social change. We are pleased to announce that the book, Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong, has won its second national book award for social change. The hardcover is the winner of The National Best Books...

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Blumenthal Right To Investigate Smart Choices Food Labels

October 25, 2009
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  A Vernon area area man last week questioned whether Ct Attorney General Richard Blumenthal should be spending his staff’s time to investigate the Smart Choices labels on foods containing lots of sugar and/or salt.  I think that Smart Choices misleading labels and marketing folks poisoning the minds of children by bombarding them with...

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