As
Father’s Day approaches, a new study says more dads are living away
from their children. The Pew Research study shows about one out of four
fathers don’t live with their children. That’s twice as many as a
generation ago. The good news is that dads who live with their kids
today are taking a more active role in their day-to-day lives than
fathers did before. Source Link
The
man who ushered in a new era of “shopping with a beep” has died.
Supermarket executive Alan Haberman was considered the father of the bar
code and championed it when retailers chose the rectangular graphic of
varying lines as a standard to identify products nearly 40 years ago.
Now it’s estimated that 5 billion bar codes are scanned each day. Source Link
It’s
a different kind of “sticker shock” on the cover of the new issue of
Playboy Magazine. It introduces 25-year old Playmate Crystal Harris as
the new Mrs. Hugh Hefner, but Harris has backed out of wedding plans
with the 85-year old publisher. now Hefner has ordered stickers to be
placed on the covers of all newsstand copies proclaiming “The Runaway
Bride”. Source Link
