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...reasons never definitively established, just 24 dimes in 1894, the fabled 1894-S dimes, one of which sold at auction last year for $1.3 million.) At one point I also made a sustained attempt at a stamp collection. I still have my first-day issue of the three-cent stamp commemorating Teddy's Roosevelt's home at Sagamore Hill, which today is worth about what it was then...
...Economic Research, warns that Germany's solar industry will falter if current policy changes: "The major point of criticism says that [solar] is too far from being competitive. It's a political question of whether the country wants to keep subsidizing it." Utility companies must now pay 8.36 euro cents per kW-h to windmill owners; for solar, the price is far higher, at 51 euro cents. The utilities charge about 20 euro cents per kW-h, with consumers paying an extra 0.5 euro-cent charge per kW-h to fund green energy...
...next time students are jamming to 50 Cent on their MP3 players, they might want to refrain from blasting the song at full volume...
...reply is always silence, predictably—but also appropriately, because even the animate among us can’t come up with a good answer. Indeed, it is high time to abolish the penny from our pockets because, sadly, it isn’t worth a red cent. Literally, it is worth one cent, but thanks to inflation, the days of penny candy are long over. A price of “one cent” in 1946 is today a dime. Nowadays, it is impossible to find anything that costs a penny, other than one?...
Like every other kind of media, publishing is faddish. The rapper 50 Cent recently started an imprint. Vibe magazine, in conjunction with Kensington Publishing, followed suit. The expansion has left some of its authors ambivalent. "In the beginning it was about a need to express ourselves on a greater plane," says K'wan. "But now it's such a money thing. It affects how the genre is perceived by the public, and it affects authors coming in. They look at this like it's Hollywood. They don't understand that to endure this game, you have to love this game...