Early Monday morning, my boss said he had a top-secret assignment for me, and that afternoon, I was flying to the land of my ancestors, aka Italy, where I walked the streets of Milan in search of my roots . A friend of a friend of a friend â” or something like that â” had a relative with lots of money, so much money he was ranked as one of the top 500 executives in the world, or maybe it was one of the top 500 executives in South Jersey. While she was at lunch with him and his wife, she spent the greater part of the afternoon listening to them talk about success â” his successes, their mutual successes, the successes of their children and their upcoming successes. The recent hysteria following the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines jet over Detroit has reminded us again of our vulnerability to terrorism, not just in the air, but on our daily commute by train. After the Madrid bombings in March 2004 and the London subway attacks in 2005, it is really only a matter of time before terrorism once again strikes such a vulnerable target as mass transit. I want to vent about a well-known name brand toaster oven I purchased last May, and about what appears to be a lack of workmanship and longevity.

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