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...This is the place they call ‘Wall Street,’ where men come to make their fortunes, but also to lose them. Those in their prime have been leveled by the subprime, as well as by other unexplained forces, and, as they say, every coin has both heads and tails, and gold melts to water in the fingers of those who too hotly grasp...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Tilting at Windmills | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

GENERAL PETRAEUS' Super Bowl coin toss. Slated next for Oscar skit with WALL?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...midnight. The musicians packed up their instruments and finalized the flight arrangements. Holly's bass player, Waylon Jennings, was scheduled to fly on the plane but gave his seat to the Big Bopper, who was suffering from a cold. Holly's guitarist Tommy Allsup agreed to flip a coin with Richie Valens for the remaining seat. Valens won. The three musicians boarded the red and white single-engine Beech Bonanza around 12:30 on Feb. 3. Fans flocked to the tarmac, waving and crying and asking for autographs. The musicians waved back and then climbed onto the plane. Snow blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the Music Died | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...very successful in his predictions. I'm proud of my boy! Punxsutawney Phil is my main competitor, but he only has a 43% accuracy. You can flip a coin and come out basically the same predictions. But my boy is right 85% of the time. You can't argue with a good product. You want accurate readings, you go to Chuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Groundhog Handler Doug Schwartz | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

...Sussex. At the time, historians and archaeologists were outraged that the 'spoils' from the historically significant site would be divided and put in private hands, an outrage only increased by Odyssey's practice of selling artifacts individually in order to fund its expeditions. Noting that every coin is carefully catalogued so that no information is lost, Stemm defends the practice. "Selling these coins to pay for the archaeology and to save these shipwrecks from destruction is much better than asking taxpayers to foot the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The HMS Victory, Famed Shipwreck, Is Found | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

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