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...Expect a Divine Bank Deposit Rabbi Nevins cautions, "When I ask God for help, I'm not asking for an extra miracle, for a great hand to drop a wad of cash on my mortgage." Such supernatural interventions may occur, he says, "but I just don't know how to prove that." Says Ali: "God accepts our prayers, but God acts based on his wisdom." Says Martin: "If you imagine that God is like a cosmic gum-ball machine, you have to start rethinking your image of God. The help may not come as quickly or in the exact...
...Organization, which owns and operates the clock, plans to install an updated model sometime next year that can display a quadrillion dollars. In the meantime, the company has hacked the current display to provide a temporary solution - replacing the dollar sign at the front of the number with an extra digit...
There was plenty of back-and-forth action in the third set, which ended up going eight extra points until the Bears finally took...
...effort to revive Britain's flagging banking sector has reversed the government's fortunes. Prime Minister Brown's broadly popular plan - which includes extra liquidity for banks and government guarantees for their debt - has inspired similar rescue packages across Europe. Still, one model won't fit all. "Some countries consider they don't have an insolvency problem, and are focusing more on providing guarantees to improve liquidity in the markets," says Antonio Ramirez, banking analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in London. (On Monday, for instance, Spain said it would guarantee new bank debt until...
...downward spiral" in Afghanistan unless major improvements are immediately implemented. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration has launched a major review of its Afghanistan policy just as new ground-based intelligence indicates that this winter may not yield the expected lull in fighting that would have allowed a deployment of extra troops to wait until the spring. U.S. and Afghan forces patrolling the eastern border near Pakistan have uncovered caches of cold-weather gear and weapons in areas that are usually closed off during winter snows...