Top 10 Biggest Trading Losses in History Biggest Losers 10. Metallgesellschaft, $1.3 billion 9. Orange County, $1.7 Billion 8. UBS, $2 Billion 7. JPMorgan Chase, $2 Billion 6. Aracruz, $2.5 Billion 5. Sumitomo Corp, $3.5 Billion 4. Long-Term Capital Management, $4.6 Billion 3. Amaranth Advisors, $6.5 Billion 2. Société Générale, $7.2 Billion 1. Morgan Stanley, $9 Billion Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/11/top-10-biggest-trading-losses-in-history/?iid=nf-article-mostpop1#all#ixzz1uiGbv9mU

Full Article During the economic boom of the Roaring Twenties, the traditional values of rural America were challenged by the Jazz Age, symbolized by women smoking, drinking, and wearing short skirts. The average American was busy buying automobiles and  Read More: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-great-depression/

Full Article In 1931 the rains stopped and the “black blizzards” began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains—the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico. Topsoil that had taken a thousand years per inch to build suddenly blew away in only minutes. One journalist traveling through the devastated region dubbed it the “Dust Bowl.” Watch Surviving the Dust Bowl on PBS. See more from American Experience. Surviving the Dust Bowl is the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust,…

May 9, 2012 3:23pm By Sheila Marikar @SheilaYM Vidal Sassoon, Legendary Hairstylist, Dies at 84 Full Article Legendary hairstylist Vidal Sassoon has died, his Beverly Hills salon confirmed to ABC News today. He was 84. Sassoon styled hair for seven decades. He pioneered a geometric haircut in the 1960s that came to be known as the new version of the classic bob cut, and Read More http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/05/vidal-sassoon-legendary-hairstylist-dies-at-84/