Today, I need to: meet Cristina for coffee, pick up dry-cleaning, buy a gift for baby-shower.

FORBES: My Weight Watchers-Inspired Money Diet

She kept asking the admin to pick up dry cleaning, book personal travel and call her babysitter.

FORBES: The Backdoor Assistant Trap

Employees use the programs to get out of having to pick up dry-cleaning or wait at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

WSJ: Practical Perks: Workers Get Credits at Task Outsourcers

Cardiff helped OceanFreight pick up its first dry-bulk vessels, helps manage that fleet and shares office space with OceanFreight.

FORBES: Curious George

Some 3, 500 residential buildings could be hit if there is a strike, and up to 1m New Yorkers may have to hail their own cabs, walk their own dogs and pick up their own dry-cleaning.

ECONOMIST: New York

Between 80 and 100 storm systems form each year as bodies of hot, dry air over the Sahara Desert, pick up moisture as they move out across the Atlantic.

BBC: NEWS | Africa | Experts seek clues to hurricane births