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...currency by shocked foreign debtors. There is only one piece of investment advice anyone needs, and it has been accurate for over 5,000 years: buy gold. Gold has always represented the principle that you can't get something for nothing; something that America forgot a long time ago. Dan McCoy, Reno, Nevada...
...what's a Real Sarah Palin to do? First, she has sensibly laughed it off. If she had lumped Fey in with the evil media "filter" persecuting her by asking follow-ups and expecting her to answer debate questions, she would be Dan Quayle jousting with Murphy Brown. She may even go on SNL, perhaps by the time you read this...
That in turn has created opportunities for the specialty high-value metals that Allegheny Technologies (ATI) makes. "We have manufacturing operations that no one else has," says spokesman Dan Greenfield. The company handles specialty alloys such as titanium and zirconium, as well as grain-oriented electrical steel used in the energy, power and aerospace industries. ATI is spending $1.16 billion over four years to improve its capability to do the most difficult metal rolling, which should preserve the 2,900 ATI jobs in the area. That funding is expected to be internally generated, so ATI doesn't have to worry...
...nutrition to archaeology. In past years, researchers have been awarded Ig Nobels for the iconic pink yard flamingo and for calculating the exact odds Mikhail Gorbachev is the anti-Christ. This year, the event continued its tradition of zany humor. The ceremony opened with an introduction by past winner Dan Meyer, who promptly swallowed a sword onstage. Meyer won his Ig Nobel for studying sword swallowing and its effects. Later, a parade of “Ignitaries” entered the theater, and a number of student delegations were recognized by standing and spinning three times. Throughout the event, attendees...
...years. But Irwin rejected the proposal in April, saying he did not "trust" ExxonMobil's word after years of false starts, and pulled the leases. The state wants other producers to bid for the development rights, a plan unlikely to occur for years because of court challenges. Dan Dickinson, tax chief under Murkowski, claims that the Point Thompson decision may have scored p.r. points for Palin but ultimately set back early production of the field. "I don't think Governor Palin really understands the intricate details of oil and gas here," says Persily, the former administration official. "She underestimates...