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...year, enabled the Federal Reserve Board to ease up on interest rates. "The Fed is riding to the rescue," Economist Walter Heller said in May. As a result, more credit began flowing to businesses. Between April and July, the prime rate fell by a point, to 9??%, where it ended the year...
...film might have been retitled Too Hot to Handle. In 1984, three days before British Director Adrian Lyne (Flash-dance) was scheduled to start 9?? Weeks, its original backer, Tri-Star Pictures, decided to pass. Eventually, MGM/UA took a chance, despite rumors that some kinky scenes of the obsessive love affair between Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke would mean an X rating. But last week word came that 9?? Weeks will hit theaters in February. Will the final edited R version live up to the flick's overheated reputation? Well, it seems that Lyne's cooler instincts prevailed. "I wasn...
...same time, however, scientists have come to appreciate what can be gained from decoding other genomes, from modern chimps and ancient cave bears to microscopic bacteria and viruses. As the cost of sequencing each base pair has dropped, from $10 in 1990 to less than 9?? in 2002 to 1/10 of 1¢ today, researchers are doing more all the time. Although 99% of the planet's genomes have yet to be decoded, researchers have identified hundreds of thousands if not millions of genes, dwarfing the paltry 24,000 or so we carry...
...their actual age, they have three years to shape up or lose the extra 5% reimbursement. In Bellevue, Wash., city workers gain "points" according to the cost of their health insurance. They lose a point for each dollar received in medical claims, and the value of the points (currently 9??) goes up as the number of claims filed by all covered workers goes down, and vice versa...
...first. According to Minnis' calculations, increased cloud cover since the 1970s ought to have led to a warming of .36° to .54°F per decade. The actual warming during this period falls within that range, at just under .5°. That may not sound like much, but when only 9??F separate our current temperature from the last Ice Age, it's clear that a little warming makes a big difference. "This study," says Minnis, "demonstrates that contrails should be included in climate-change scenarios...