We've Got Herb and Another Articles Elsewhere Contest!
We've Got Herb, Without the Peaches!
We've got Herb!
Herb Greenberg
is joining
TheStreet.com
! While this is a brilliant bonus for our readers, it is a sad day for
Articles Elsewhere
-- losing a favorite link. His farewell column can be found in today's
.
U.S. Business
Hell no! Play-doh can't go!
Hasbro
(HAS) - Get Report
said that it plans to close its factory in Central Falls, R.I., that employs about 150 people. The factory is its main manufacturer of
Play-Doh
. In the
.
Now you can have a sweet tooth and a sweet stock. The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
reports that
Alottafun!
, a Milwaukee-based company "aimed at the gum-chewing, insect-loving, pre-12-year-old market," has filed a statement with the state
Division of Securities
to allow its stock to trade in Wisconsin.
The
Washington Post
reports that
US Airways
(U) - Get Report
will repurchase $1 billion in shares.
The
also reports that
Motorola
(MOT)
is expected to announce Wednesday that it will form a new business organization to leverage all the company's technology related to providing motorists with information.
Perhaps reasoning that the Midwest was just too pure for his tastes, Jay Sevigny, Midwest president for
Station Casinos
(STN) - Get Report
, will join
Harrah's Entertainment
(HET)
as its top executive in New Orleans. In the
.
Business Abroad
The
reports that
Pacificorp
(PPW)
formally relaunched the takeover battle for
The Energy Group
yesterday with a 4-billion-pound agreed bid.
According to Janet Bush of the
, "America is the envy of the world. Britain comes a close second." In economic savvy, not dental work.
Maybe
should move to Australia. The
Sydney Morning Herald
reports that ranchers are destroying the largest number of cattle since the 1970s because of poor returns, and lamb producers are also seeing their meat sales fall.
Tate & Lyle
saw its stock plunge yesterday as the company warned shareholders that profit growth is unlikely this year due to an outbreak of sugar beet disease in its operations in Nebraska. In the
Telegraph
.
Headlines You Would Never See in an American Newspaper, or Why Johnny Can't Read
The
Sydney Morning Herald
put great faith in the educational system of Australia when it printed this headline:
Six Degrees of Vituperation
.
Articles Elsewhere Updates!!!
Bill Gates
has mud -- no that would be custard -- on his face. Belgians greeted Bill Gates warmly with the traditional "custard pie-in-the-face" today in Brussels. For more insight into custard pies check out the
or a little bit of custard pie
.
CNN's
Web site
reports that tart-tossing terrorist Noel Godin, a Belgian who has made a name for himself and a lucrative business out of hurling custard pies in the faces of the rich and famous, may be behind the baked-goods bombardment. Find out more about Noel through some links on
CNN's
page. Or for those Deutschlanders in the crowd, check out an interview with the "Groucho-Marxisten und die Revolutionary 3 Stooges Brigade" in der
Beute
.
The Brits aren't willing to give the world these beetles. The
Times of London
reports that the British stag beetle is set to join the endangered species list, as the British government seeks to end a lucrative international trade in the insect.
Another Articles Elsewhere Contest!!!
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picture
the caption it deserves! In the
South China Morning Post
.
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