America’s richest people are getting poorer, according to this year’s Forbes 400 list.The annual ranking of the 400 wealthiest US citizens shows their net worth has dropped by $300bn, from $1.57 trillion to a paltry $1.27 trillion. That includes a loss of nearly $40bn for the top ten alone. The decline can be attributed to the global economic crisis, which has affected the capital and housing markets, as well as fraud and divorce, causing 314 returning members to record a loss. Warren Buff

With each party we throw we always have treat bags or little favors for our guests to take home with them. It seems like the past couple of years we have been giving out the same old stuff like candy, little stupid, cheap toys, play doh, etc. And at the adult parties it’s always something like little chocolate favors or something. Everyone does the same thing and after a while it gets repetitive and boring. My sister just had her birthday and we went to a nice, chic bar at a ...

Olympic Betting: Who Will Host 2016 Summer Games?by Allen James | October 1st, 2009 Chicago will host the 2016 Summer Games if Barack Obama has anything to do with it. (AP Images)The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will announce on Friday which city among Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo or Madrid will host the 2016 Summer Olympics.It's expected to be a very close ballot this time around. The winning candidate requires more than 50 percent of the votes cast in a secret electronic ballot.

Tweeting away in Twitterland Perhaps the best thing about Twitter is that it forces people to get to the point, in 140 characters or less. Not that it matters much for most athletes, who rarely have thoughts that run that long anyway. They get paid to play, not to tell us how to eliminate hunger or explain black [...]

The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Dodgers’ nine that day: The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play. And then when Furcal died at first, and Hudson did the same, A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game. A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast; They thought, if only Kobe could get but a whack at that — We’d put up even money, now, with Kobe at the bat. You know the rest. Best ca