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Hoping For a Raise? How About a Gift Card, Instead?
Many a disgruntled employee has complained of working for peanuts. But is working for lattes any better? Unemployment rates are still high and wages stagnant,...
Cats, Bears and Bacon
Across from the framed picture of the gun-toting cat wearing a jet pack, next to the stack of ink doodles, behind an array of computer monitors, Matthew Inman is...
Relieving Peanut Allergies…With Peanuts
A study shows food allergy sufferers can build up tolerance to foods
Zenit’s Nadir: Russian Team’s Fans Call for Whites-Only Policy
Fans of international soccer—including yours truly—get smug about the lack of passion on view at the stadiums of professional sports teams in the U.S. A pond may...
Don’t Call It a Comeback, Charlie Brown
A new movie, new comic books and ratings highs for the old television specials... Everything is coming up Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang right now—but why?
Charles Schulz's Peanuts Gang Headed to the Big Screen
You’re a good man, Charlie Brown. Who cares if you can’t kick a football? You’re going to be a movie star! 20th Century Fox Animation and its Blue Sky Studios...
Good Ol’ Charles Schulz: The ‘Peanuts’ Creator at Home
On the anniversary of the October 1952 debut of Peanuts, LIFE.com presents a series of photos of the comic strip's creator, Charles Schulz, at home and at play...
Morning Must Reads: Ask
A pew peanuts while you wait for tonight’s main course… Barack Obama does an “ask me anything” on Reddit. 22 millions Americans watched Ann Romney and Chris...
Live From Mars
The folks in mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ate a lot of peanuts in the minutes leading up to the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars...
Mars Landing: The 7 Most Adorkable Moments From The NASA Control Room
For us, watching NASA's geek heroes celebrate was almost more fun than the landing itself.
The End Is Near
I had my first movie spoiled for me when I was about 7 years old, by a Peanuts comic strip. Linus is watching Citizen Kane on TV; his sister Lucy says she's seen...
You’re on the iPad, Charlie Brown!
An iOS app revives classic anthologies of Charles' Schulz's Peanuts--and creates new ones.
Would You Pay $520 in Interest to Borrow $375? 12 Million Americans Did Last Year
Americans spend more than $7.4 billion on payday loans every year. That’s hardly peanuts, especially when you consider that these billions are earned $50 to $100...
Don’t Buy Me Peanuts or Cracker Jack: Baseball Stadiums Offer Allergy-Friendly Seats
There are enough peanut-fearing, baseball-loving fans out there that teams have started to host peanut-free seating zones on specific days of the schedule.
Hot Dog! Two-Foot-Long, $26 Frank Hits the Ballpark
They do say everything is bigger in Texas, and this just proves it.
Ryan Braun’s Name Is Cleared, But Is He Believable?
Baseball fans are experts at many things, like cracking peanuts, stretching during the seventh inning, and making personal judgments about innocence of alleged...
Q&A: Charlie Brown Christmas Producer Lee Mendelson
In the 45 years since its debut, A Charlie Brown Christmas has endured as one of America's most cherished Christmas traditions, but it's the classic that almost...
The Morning After: A New-Old Peanuts Special, and Other Thanksgiving Leftovers
Last night, Fox aired the TV debut of Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown. You can never un-watch Flashbeagle, but this new Peanuts special was...
Why Is Donald Rumsfeld on This Package of Spicy Peanuts?
There are, in this salty tale of frolics, politics and peanuts, a number of what Donald Rumsfeld, might call known knowns. These are things we know that we...
