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New number: I'd like to point out that I made a full year without an iPhone. Mostly out of sheer lack of cash and a super-great plan with Sprint (500 minutes, unlimited everything else for $32 a month), but none-the-less, I made it. A month ago, the Company told me that they'd no longer give me $50 a month for my $32 a month cellular plan, I knew it was time. I was going to have to switch over to the company plan on AT&T anyway, so the iPhone...

Junkies and drunks frequently end up putting a megaphone to their own pratfalls in the form of memoir because they need to believe that all of the time they spent with their lips wrapped around glass, whether is was a bottle of vodka or a crack pipe, actually meant something. That impulse suggests that I don’t regret the past — it brought me here to this nice, happy place — but I’d also like to squeeze something more from it. And so I have. Two years of reporting and a...

Click through to see how you stack up to the rest of the world. I make what I thought to be just "ok money", but top one percent? No way....

Holy crap......

NYTimes:There’s plenty of local history in Wiffle ball (it was invented up the road in Fairfield) and Greenwich land-use disputes (where to start?), but Vincent and Justin say they just wanted a place to play Wiffle ball. They got materials from a friend’s basement plus two big pieces of plywood being thrown away by a Shell station on East Putnam Avenue. They fished pallets out of Dumpsters and spent perhaps $200, mostly on green paint. But even before they were finished, things began to get complicated. They were told the...

praying for the Stocco's who lost both of their toddlers Wed night; both drowned in the family swimming pool. ages 1 and 3....