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Kareem shows me how to fill out an order. He is very proud of the company and tells me that he joined on February 14, the day the company started. I congratulate him on being its oldest employee, making him blush. My stint with manual labor does not last long. I am sent back upstairs to my keeper's dismay. "Deja! (Already!)" she cries incredulously. "I don't think he had room for me on the team," I reply...
...what I was looking for--hundreds were on the money. I decided to sample eight of them, including Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory, Harry Lorayne's Page-a-Minute Memory Book and Carol Turkington's 12 Steps to a Better Memory. Much of what I read was, at first blush, utterly forgettable...
...first blush, a novel about a pair of twins yoked together at their chests by a 7-in. band of cartilage sounds like one of those ideas more intriguing in the conception than the execution. Once the unusual premise has been established, what's left to do? A number of good answers can be found in Darrin Strauss's Chang and Eng (Dutton; 323 pages; $23.95), a fictionalized account of the real-life, and eponymous, Siamese twins (1811-74) who were widely exhibited as touring oddities and who then settled in rural North Carolina, married a pair of sisters...
...ahead for the burn on spot forecasts. The National Weather Service, however, insists it had faxed the report to Weaver's office. "This did not have to happen," says Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico. "I believe, based on common sense, that somebody made a mistake. At first blush, it seems it was the worst of times for a controlled burn." A General Accounting Office investigation is under way. Insurance claims and lawsuits are expected to mount...
Welcome to the world of payday lending, where annual interest rates would make Mob loan sharks of an earlier era blush in embarrassment. The business flourishes in working-class neighborhoods, where people run out of money before their next payday. The lender may charge up to $40 for a $200 loan to be repaid in two weeks. That's an annual interest rate of 521%. In exchange for the advance, the lender requires the borrower to write a check for $240, dated to coincide with his next paycheck. When the two weeks are up, the borrower may repay the loan...