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PASCARELLA: Everyday expense is growing markedly. That's the grocery store, the movie theater, gas stations. Quick-service restaurants--a $142 billion business, of which the card industry has got about 9%--is growing at 67% a year [for Visa]. We've had significant growth in prepaid cards, and the payroll card is very important...
...cost of $5 billion. Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, pledged to schedule hearings on the topic. And that was before Bank of America learned, as first reported by TIME.com that it had lost several data-backup tapes that held information on at least 1.2 million federal employee credit-card accounts--possibly including some of Senators...
...exit survey last year showed that students graduate with an average credit card debt of about $1200, though the Office of Financial Aid estimates that the figure is actually higher, according to Donahue...
That doesn't mean life once thrived on Mars, but it's a tantalizing sign. So is methane found in the Martian air. It could be volcanic, but methane is more often produced by living organisms. If bacteria still live under Mars' surface, this could be their calling card. Opportunity and Spirit can't detect bacteria directly, but they're not finished unearthing secrets. Spirit's discovery of an intact meteorite was totally unexpected, and the rover should get a dramatic panoramic view in a few weeks when it reaches the crest of the Columbia Hills. "I have no idea...
...from Athens to Rome on June 14, 1985, and held the plane in Beirut for 17 days, killing one; of cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. Taking charge, Derickson soothed a gunman by singing a German ballad he requested, intervened to stop the beatings of passengers and used her Shell credit card to pay $5,500 for the plane's refueling...