W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...
Democratic Republic of Congo This week I joined United Nations forces in the Congo for an offensive against rebel militias. 'We're the only ones who want to fight, ' said the South African colonel, cussing the other blue helmet contingents. 'They're too scared to...
Scraping, sanding, scaulking...somebody's got to do it, and that somebody is you. But there are Tools! Some painting contractors, if not nearly all, estimate that surface prep comprises up to 75 to 80 percent of a typical job. That might come as a...
At 10: Scrapyard WorkerNot as icky a job as others on this list, but working in the metal salvage industry can be pretty grim if you value your life. The percentage of fatalities is almost twice that of any other job in Britain.At 9: Sausage...
Mobile police have found a new use for macadamia nuts that's not too tasty. Officers used chopped macadamia nuts to resemble rocks of crack cocaine during a drug sting Friday and Saturday on a street corner near downtown that has been the...
