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Law: The Mennen Case | TIME

TIME March 24, 1923 12:00 AM GMT-5 The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed down a decision of great importance to those manufacturers and jobbers who have feared legal complications as a result of some customary selling or distributing method. The decision was upon an appeal of the Mennen Company against an order of the Federal Trade Commission. This order forbade the Mennen Company to adopt any system of discount upon the basis of a classification of its customers as jobbers, wholesalers, retailers, ” or any similar classification which relates to the customers’ form of organization, business policy, business methods.

Lessons on Living a Better Life From a 109-year-old Man

Correction appended: Sept. 5, 2014. One sunny Sunday morning seven years ago, shortly after we moved into our new home in suburban Kansas City, I noticed that my neighbor across the street was busy in his driveway. Wearing only a pair of shorts, his barrel chest rippling, he was using a sponge and a garden hose to wash his girlfriend’s purple PT Cruiser. Did I feel a twinge of envy at all that this scene implied—the Saturday night romance; the love-interest perhaps dozing languorously inside as her man basked and flexed?

Lil Durk's manager shot dead in Chicago

The tragic news filtered out of Chicago on Friday, March 27, 2015 that Lil Durk's manager, OTF Chino, was shot and killed in the city the night before. According to The Chicago Tribune, Chino, was sitting in his car outside of a restaurant in Avalon Park when some gunmen approached the vehicle on foot and fired into the car. Though, other two individuals in the vehicle sustained gunshot wounds, Chino didn't make it out alive.

Man Drowns in Water Park After Lifeguard Dismisses Warnings

A 32-year-old man who drowned at a Washington water park over the weekend may have been submerged for 15 minutes before lifeguards found him at the bottom of a pool, according to witness accounts. Vijayarengan Srinivasan, a programmer who had moved to Washington state from India just two weeks earlier, died Saturday in a pool at Wild Waves Water Park. Children who said they saw a body at the bottom of a pool alerted a lifeguard, but they were initially dismissed because the 21-year-old lifeguard “believed that they were pranking him and did not think anything of it,” according to a Federal Way Police Department report.

Meet the Ethiopian tribe who have a fat man contest

The Bodi or Me'en people, settled in the remote lower part of the Omo valley river of Southern Ethiopia, are a semi-nomadic tribe of mainly livestock farmers and agriculturalists who revere their cattle. They are a proud tribe who have been able to preserve their ancient cultures despite the modern world and civilisation. The mysterious tribe still engage in barter trade system. One of the mind-boggling traditions that still persist is the Fat Man contest during the Ka'el ceremony where every family is expected to produce a man to compete to be the fattest man of the year.