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...their temporal lobes as well. There's no known way of repairing amygdalae, so such conditions can't be reversed. But at least it's now possible to understand why it can be so unbearable to be in the middle of a packed line for the Hulk roller coaster: your amygdalae is going nuts...
...Final Destination horror films, is a corporate sibling of your favorite website - but there's no question that the series has been a triennial cash cow. The 2000 original (plane crash) earned $113 million worldwide; the 2003 sequel (highway crash) took in $90 million; and the third (roller-coaster ride), in 2006, took in another $113 million. And since each movie was made for a thrifty $25 million, there are big profits in the franchise. The only obligation for the screenwriters going forward is to come up with a new catastrophe. What would it be this time? A stock-market...
...need for stricter control of the Puer industry became clear two years ago, when the Puer market went on a destabilizing roller-coaster ride. Some Chinese buy tea as an investment, much like Europeans buy wines. In the early part of the decade, thousands of cash-rich urbanites poured their savings into the Puer, causing prices to double, then triple. "People were buying anything," says David Lee Hoffman, a California collector. By 2007, the finest aged Puer was - quite literally - worth its weight in gold. As demand soared, however, quality suffered, fakes flooded the market and prices fell...
...front and center. Now he has more of a supporting role. In the new ads, Mr. Six rates the fun of various activities on a scale of 1 to 6 flags. Throwing a baseball at your dad's crotch? "Two flags," Mr. Six chirps. Riding a Six Flags roller coaster? "Six flags," Mr. Six tells us in a voice that sounds like a cooing father on speed. "More flags, more fun." (Read "Advice from an Economist...
...need more - not fewer - oil traders. After a roller-coaster ride that has sent oil prices from a record high of $147 per bbl. last July to below $35 in December and back to around $60, there has been a clamor to clamp down on speculators - those investors who trade oil but don't ultimately supply it or use it (the way airlines do, for instance). The economic disruption caused by oil's volatility has been so vexing that the Obama Administration believes it can stabilize prices by regulating speculators out of the market...