A Chicago-based product developer has come up with a transparent toaster which it claims could help "make burnt toast a thing of the past. "Inventables said its new toaster made of glass lets the person see the bread as it browns.

The technology revolution has yet again taken ahold of present-day work ethics, with the birth and the usage of the new slang word "moof. " Standing for "mobile out of office", the term is known as an indication of a worker's capability to remain active with work, even outside the workplace.

A 114-year old woman from Chicago registered to vote in the U. S. elections on Thursday. Virginia Call was visited by the chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners to enlist in the official book of voters, thus enabling her to participate in the presidential polls next month.

Hundreds of thousands of holiday greeting cards and get-well-soon letters for injured American soldiers were returned to sender or thrown away unopened and never reached their destinations. The Pentagon and Postal service have refused to deliver mail letters addressed to wounded troops since the September 11 attacks and the anthrax scare, for fear terrorists might send toxic materials or bad messages to the recovering soldier wounded during war.

Volunteer workers at the Daley Plaza bolted down a Baby Jesus in the store's Nativity Scene, with the hopes of keeping the display's main object from being stolen. The infant was secured to its spot with cable wrapped around its waist, and its body was then bolted to the floor of the manger.