Tag: Good Week Bad Week

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Good Week, Bad Week: Identity Theft and the Better Marriage Blanket

Friday, May 21, 2010

We join with The Week Magazine to take a look back at the best and the worst of  the past week. It was a bad week for cyclist, Floyd Landis, who admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. But our "bad week" nod goes to Todd Davis, the CEO of LifeLock, an identity theft protection service. Todd Davis revealed his social security number on TV to prove that his company could protect anything, but the plan backfired when his identity was stolen multiple times. But there's good news for couples, who can now buy a new blanket that absorbs odors in bed, putting an end to that "silent, but deadly" problem.

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Good Week, Bad Week: Times Square Vendors, Overly Cautious Bomb Squad

Friday, May 14, 2010

We join with The Week Magazine to take a look back at the best and the worst of last week. Following the foiled terrorist attempt in New York, the past seven days were pretty good for Times’ Square street vendors, but not so great for an overly cautious bomb squad in Lake Mary, Fla.  

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Good Week, Bad Week: Send Your Nominations!

Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 06:42 AM

Every seven days The Week magazine reviews who's had a good or bad week. We're taking your suggestions for this week's winners and losers. Send us your nominations!

Listen to installments of the "Good Week, Bad Week" series.

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Good Week/Bad Week: Venting in Nepal and the Trouble of Walking Dogs

Friday, March 05, 2010

Along with our friends at The Week Magazine, we look at the past week, review give you the score. Who had a good week? Who had a bad week? In this week’s segment we learn that it was a great week to vent your frustrations … if you happen to live in Nepal. A ritual in the country allows young people from neighboring villages Parsaway and Lamipur get to yell insults at each other as part of an annual festival this week. They say it's all in good fun.

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Good Week/Bad Week: Cleveland Ranks on Forbes' 'Misery Index'

Friday, February 26, 2010

GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK:  Along with our friends at The Week Magazine we’ll give you the score.  Who had a good week?  Who had a bad week?  We found that it was good to be a typo, but a very bad week to be Cleveland, Ohio.

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Good Week/Bad Week: Manure for Valentine's Day, Kevin Smith's Bad Airplane Ride

Friday, February 19, 2010

A Valentine's Day message made out of cow manure tops our good week list, while Kevin Smith gets a nod for having a rough time on a Southwest Airlines flight when he was booted off for being too fat. In conjunction with The Week magazine, we take a look at who had a good week and who had a bad week and as always, we take your suggestions.

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The Takeaway

Good Week, Bad Week

Friday, February 12, 2010

In conjunction with our friends at The Week magazine, each Friday we discuss the winners and losers of the past seven days in a segment we call Good Week/Bad Week. This week we learn why in Madison, Wisconsin a working class hero is something to be, as a local bus driver pulled in more than $100,000. We also see how a Long Island woman topped our bad week list when she attempted to pull a fast one on the highway patrol.

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Good Week, Bad Week

Friday, February 05, 2010

Every week, in cooperation with The Week magazine, we explore who had a good week and who had a bad week. This week, our good week award goes to venerable groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, who in spite of protestations by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, predicted six more weeks of winter.

Meanwhile, things weren't so great for Taylor Swift.  The country singer gets our bad week award for not only sang out of key at the Grammys, but also broke one of her trophies.

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