Why can't Wal-Mart do this? Wal-Mart certainly has the infrastructure in place. They get 100 million customers a week in stores. Why not capture sales from these same customers in some other way.

Some Indian companies are planning to acquire large agricultural tracts of land and convince farmers to shift from growing cash crops -- wheat, rice, maize -- to more profitable fruits and vegetables that can be exported to destinations such as Europe.

You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

This notion that we should just eliminate periods altogether is just crazy,