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First it was Wall Street that was in trouble. Then Main Street. Now, the nightmare is approaching Elm Street. Even in my relatively placid little corner of the world - a leafy, middle-class, middle-American neighborhood with two- and three-bedroom brick and stone homes built in the 1920s and '30s - it is hard not to feel jittery as 2009 begins...
Although it's our home galaxy, the Milky Way is not an easy entity to peg. Drawing a map of it has been likened to describing the town you're in when you've never ventured beyond the confines of your bedroom. In 1958, Jan Oort became the first to map the galaxy, by assessing the strength of neutral atomic hydrogen gas, a widespread component of the Milky Way. Pohl created his map using a kinetic model of the galaxy's gas flow, which was developed by Peter Engelmeier of the University of Zurich and Nicolai Bissantz of Ruhr University...
...Halder (Viggo Mortensen) he is chaotically cooking a meal with the assistance of his scampering children. Meantime his wife is banging out classical music on the piano - as she does for hours every day - while his incontinent and half-mad mother insistently cries out for help from an upstairs bedroom. Halder, who is a novelist and literature professor, is obviously in need of a little discipline in his life and, since this is Germany in the 1930s, there's plenty of that available...
Nevertheless, the Gongs' living standards don't exactly fit into the Chinese definition of frugality. They live in a cozy two-bedroom apartment in downtown Dagang and drive to work every day in a Kia Cerato that, according to Gong, about 70% of the locals still deem a luxury. But they are not carrying a mortgage, which could have easily added another 2,000 yuan (almost $300) to their monthly expenditures. Gong's parents chipped in with their savings to help the young couple purchase the apartment...
...this poor black man in Dorchester earning $700 a month in Social Security,” he says. “He didn’t even know the property foreclosed, he’s not the most sophisticated of people, and he’s living in a bedroom of a house just trying...