Imagine you’re driving in moderate traffic. Your phone starts buzzing, and you see you have a text message. Not wanting to be rude, you read it and start texting back.
The 23rd issue of brass|MAGAZINE is out. Look for it in your mailbox, 
Would you pay $8,000 for a couple of eggs? How about if they resulted in a healthy baby instead of the most amazing breakfast on earth?
A female is born with about 1-2 million oocytes (potential egg cells), but only about 400 mature eggs are released during a woman's reproductive life. These microscopic eggs may not look like much, but to reproductively challenged couples and fertility clinics around the world, they may as well be made of gold.
In our August article Eliminate Common Fees, we showed you how to avoid easily avoidable financial fees. But there are plenty of other hidden fees you should be aware of. Preparing to travel is difficult enough, so here common tricks airlines and hotels use to sucker you out of a few extra dollars when you're heading out of town.
Plastic bags are everywhere. You can't drive down a road or walk on a sidewalk without seeing these colorful culprits tangled around telephone poles, trees, and weeds. They even manage to find their way into rivers and other natural areas, resulting in death of animals who accidentally eat or get tangled in them.
The first day of school is looming on the horizon. Hopefully, you've managed to save some cash from your summer job; otherwise the prospect of buying new school supplies is probably going to make your wallet scream in terror.
You probably saw this coming: pay raises were dead on arrival in 2009. Base salaries for non-executive workers only rose by 1.8%. According to Hewitt Associates, a human-resources consultancy, this is the lowest pay increase since data was first tracked in 1976.
Do you want to help your community while earning money to put toward college or to pay back student loans? Consider joining AmeriCorps.
Jason Sadler came up with an idea so simple that we should all kick ourselves for not thinking of it sooner. Sadler has rented his torso out every day in 2009, letting companies pay him to wear a T-shirts with their logos.
The fee is based on the calendar date, so whoever sponsored Sadler on August 1st was only charged $1, while the sponsor on the 31st will be charged $31.
Aside from the revolution of online account services, auto bill-pay is possibly the coolest thing to hit financial institutions since cash. Especially for those of us who tend to procrastinate.
Instead of highlighting one single stat this week, I thought, "why not tell my data-deprived readers how to feed their own stat hunger?" The next time you need some quick numbers to fill space in an essay, or want to fact-check that bitter windbag who says he has the stats to prove that pollution is beneficial, you'll know where to get the data.
I know I've mentioned that school is starting soon, and I hate to remind you again, but there's no avoiding it. To make matters worse, you will soon be faced with the horror of cafeteria food--glistening, greasy pizza slices or sad, wilty iceberg salads.
