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...hope a lot different. It's hard to be funny with teenagers because, ultimately, they just want what they want, and you're just a human ATM and a chauffeur. You're not cool...
...this afternoon, even though I will still lose money." Like Fang, millions of Chinese small investors have put their life savings into the market that has risen 600% over the last two years. Dong Tao says: "Many Chinese investors used to think China's stock market is like an ATM machine. You type your password in and money comes out." Not anymore. The decline of China's stock market sped up this January, and it fell straight through the past three month...
With the change in the psychology of home-owning--from the house as shelter to the house as investment, retirement vehicle and personal ATM--came a shift in home shows' focus. Out of fashion went renovation programs like This Old House, about restoring details and loving a home for its character. In came playing the real estate market. Sell This House!, My House Is Worth What? and many more flattered the smug certainty of homeowners and speculators that their home equity would shoot endlessly up like shares of Google. HGTV, TLC and their ilk may not have created the real...
...campaigns past Los Angeles was a little more than an ATM stopover on the fund-raising circuit. But this year Obama is asking stars who support him to not only speak on his behalf, but to stuff mailers, make calls, knock on doors, install yard signs and act as precinct captains - pledging to lead hundreds of their friends and neighbors to the polls...
...seeds that may not be suited to today's growing conditions but could be just right for tomorrow's. "We'll need crop varieties for hotter, dryer, wetter and colder climates," says Fowler. Sometime in the future, the vault of last resort could end up more like an ATM...