Who?s lovin? it? The life of McDonald?s workers

Back in Guatemala ? when Raul Reyes was 13 years old and selling sliced coconuts on the buses going to Quetzaltenango ? a mango smoothie was a simple thing. There was a guy standing on the corner, usually, with a card table before him and, underneath it, a crate of mangoes yanked from some nearby tree. He chopped the fruit right before your eyes and mixed in ice, then you paid him a few quetzals and stepped away sucking on a straw, savoring that sweet, cold ache in your throat.

Read full article >>

Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=5a762293f1b023722ee82b1b5c64f7fe

religion politics world

Featured Advertiser

Source: http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7961eaddcdbdbdef38a7c1f10302a261&p=4

new religion politics

Featured Advertiser

Source: http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7961eaddcdbdbdef38a7c1f10302a261&p=4

world opinions lifestyle

Jewish bikers meld leather, chrome ... and faith

On a Friday morning in May, Betsy Ahrens, 64, rode through the streets of Virginia Beach on a friend?s bright red Honda Gold Wing motorcycle. Ahrens was just one of 250 bikers to travel through the city by police escort that day, and pedestrians gawked, slack-jawed, at the processional. Drivers halted at intersections, aiming their cellphone cameras. A few people waved at Betsy, but tentatively, as though to greet a biker ? however friendly she seemed ? would be to welcome in potential chaos, the volatility associated with leather and chrome.

Read full article >>

Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=2c1e7c31a87354aefe18959f856f2fe1

news new religion

Bombs kill 9, wound at least 70 in Thai Muslim south

Nine people died and at least 70 were injured in a series of bomb explosions on Saturday in Thailand's Muslim south, the latest in a wave of violence blamed on separatists in a region bordering Malaysia, police and officials said. Three bombs went off in the business area of the city of Yala around lunchtime, they said, adding the devices may have been placed in a car and a motorcycle. Yala Governor Detrat Simsiri told Thai television that many of the injured were hit by the third bomb, hidden in a car, as they gathered at the scene. ...

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bombs-kill-8-wound-least-70-thai-muslim-081505888.html

lifestyle entertainment news

?American Idol? 2012: Down to eight Idolettes

It?s another ?American Idol? results night.

Before things get started, show host Ryan Seacrest asks judge Steven Tyler what we can expect on Aerosmith?s upcoming ?crazy? tour.

?I?m thinking of dressing like a lion tamer with a whip and whipping the front row into submission,? Tyler says. The American Idol Decency Police curl up in the fetal position.

Read full article >>

Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=08bc9d4cf82bf625f35b724d42def6df

lifestyle entertainment news

After the death of Jack Kevorkian, Lawrence Egbert is the new public face of American assisted suicide

Dust speckles shelves up on the third story. Wood floors creak. Walls and cabinets in the cramped office, tucked into a red-brick Baltimore rowhouse, channel a generation?s worth of sloganeering.

?We shall overcome Reagan?

Read full article >>

Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=4700f5ea694770c5109ee61079b9f71c

entertainment news new

Will Newt Gingrich abide by RNC rules? (Friday?s Trail Mix)

Newt Gingrich?s presidential campaign was battered this week by news that he was downsizing, charging for photos. and, possibly, losing his biggest backer.Now, the former House speaker is trying to figure a way around RNC rules that require a candidate to place first in at least five states during the primary process in order for that candidate?s name to be placed into nomination at the party convention.

Read full article >>

Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=0b489a240f2d9d1375e96d338a003a5d

world opinions lifestyle

Five ex-Huskies lead U.S. women's hoops team

Updates. With AP Photos.

Source: http://espn.go.com/olympics/basketball/story/_/id/7756719/five-former-uconn-huskies-highlight-us-women-hoops-olympic-team

world opinions lifestyle

Andy Shallal, owner of Busboys and Poets, is ?democracy?s restaurateur?

In the suspended moments before the guests arrive ? will they arrive? ? Andy Shallal sits at the bar of his newest restaurant, Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, collecting his thoughts and typing them into his ever-present MacBook Pro. At 56, tall and gregarious, he is Washington?s most successful entrepreneur-artist-activist. So few, in any city, excel in all three fields. There is something marshaled and a little tense about his manner.

Read full article >>

Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=e55233dccbe2b5c2e040b0432ba55c86

religion politics world

Labor audits find poor working conditions at Apple factories

Foxconn, which makes more of our electronic devices than any other manufacturer in the world, said it would improve pay and working conditions in its Chinese factories, according to a new report, a move that could lead to higher costs for U.S. firms.

Read full article >>

Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=5618a55e0c73bf326c994e0e8a1fdb88

opinions lifestyle entertainment