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...numbers are eye-catching. As of Dec. 23, the latest date for which data are available from the Federal Reserve, bank lending, at nearly $6.7 trillion, was down $100 billion from the month before. In the past year, the volume of loans outstanding by banks in the U.S. has fallen by more than $500 billion. Bank loans have been trending down for a while. Worse, most analysts don't see bank lending turning around anytime soon. Paul Miller of FBR Capital says a combination of banks' wanting to take fewer risks and lower demand for credit from consumers and businesses...
...already identified. Intelligence agencies knew, for instance, about the intent of radicals in Yemen to attack the U.S. They also knew that the suspected bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had traveled to Yemen and that his father had contacted the U.S. embassy in Nigeria with concern that his son had fallen in with radical elements. Making matters worse, no one in the intelligence community tied the two sets of information together, inquired as to whether Abdulmutallab had a U.S. visa or thought to add him to the no-fly list, which would have prevented him from boarding the plane on Christmas...
...Bolsheviks ran low on funds, they rethought their stance; by 1925 vodka was back on the shelves of state-run dispensaries. In World War II, every Russian soldier at the front was given a daily ration of vodka - roughly a shot's worth - and by the 1950s Russia had fallen completely off the wagon. In 1958, the communist youth organization Komsomol Pravda complained that members of its national soccer team were so drunk they couldn't score a goal from five yards away...
...North American box office, the top-grossing movie released in 2009 was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen...
...Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $402.1 million 2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $302 million 3. Up, $293 million 4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, $284.6 million* 5. Avatar, $283.8 million* 6. The Hangover, $277.4 million 7. Star Trek, $256.7 million 8. The Blind Side, $209.1 million* 9. Monsters vs Aliens, $198.4 million 10. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $196.6 million (See what we learned from a decade at the movies...