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...pricey PlayStation 3 - there are nearly 17 million of them worldwide - can download the software for free via Sony's PlayStation Network, which connects the game consoles on the Net so users can play one another. Sony is calling the rollout a "beta," meaning Home is still being crash-tested, so buyer beware. That said, this is a pretty stable environment, and I think referring to it as a beta test is a little disingenuous, or a heavy-handed way of saying that Home is a work in progress. Trust me - Home will always be a work in progress...
...beginning to rival that of the big 1970s and '80s recessions. So while President-elect Barack Obama and others who dub this the worst downturn since the Great Depression don't have definitive evidence just yet, they're not blowing smoke either. (See pictures of the stock market crash...
...After a 1994 plane crash killed four doctors, their widows filed an ethics complaint against Daschle, accusing the Senator of helping the small aircraft's owner avoid proper safety regulations. He was cleared of wrongdoing...
...because of the current financial crisis. The most recent estimates put the damage at around $8 billion dollars, while the New York Times has warned that substantially more might be lost from harder-to-assess investments, some of which have not been revalued since Wall Street’s crash. Such a bleak financial picture has caused talk of tightened budgets, not spending sprees...
Author Malcolm Gladwell captivated a sold-out crowd in First Parish Church last night for over an hour with the story of a single plane crash. He opened by asking how many listeners would be flying in the next month. When most hands went up, he said, “Then this is scary. But the most important thing...about this plane crash is that it’s scary not because it’s unusual. It’s scary because it’s typical.” The crash is “typical?...