Word: blinks
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...REFINANCE YOUR HOME. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 6.38% last week, reports mortgage tracker HSH Associates. That's down from 6.59% at the lowest point last fall - a level gone in a blink. This time rates look as if they will stay put for a few months. Consider a home-equity loan to pay off the mortgage; it amounts to a refi with fewer fees. Best bet: a 15-year fixed-rate. If you have a $150,000 balance at 7.5% on a 30-year mortgage, you could switch to a 15-year...
...history overseas, perfectly healthy and otherwise conservative Indians are gobbling Al blissfully unaware of the risks. There's little stigma attached to it, nor do users endure the hassle of trying to score it from street-corner dealers. Recently, a casual request for Alprax tablets was greeted without a blink by a New Delhi pharmacist. The cost: 50 for a strip of 10 0.25-mg tablets. Another chemist was reluctant at first, but he relented. "You don't look the sort that might be an addict," he said. Neither recorded the name of the prescribing doctor as required...
...when you see those little green lights blink--when your computers are finally talking to one another and surfing at the same high speed--you'll know it was time well spent. Here's how you get started...
...laws and a murder rate less than a quarter of the U.S.'s, Germany is not exactly a hotbed of random gun violence. But just as with the 1996 shooting that killed 18 in an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, a single gunman can make statistics irrelevant in the blink...
...books everywhere. I notice a neon green book on the floor with the words “X-Files” in the title. Gould really is well acquainted with all kinds of science, I think. He can move from Ontogeny and Phylogeny to the paranormal in the blink...