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Have you noticed any physical limitations from your body yet, as far as skating goes...
...long trips, of course, buses can't compete with trains and planes. The sweet spots, the most traveled routes, are those under 300 miles (480 km)--e.g., Chicago to Ann Arbor, Mich. But the surprisingly green coaches far outshine other vehicles in eco-efficiency. When you combine passenger occupancy with mileage per gallon, bus travel is four times as energy-efficient as car or air travel. Which helps explain its robust growth in a down economy. At MegaBus, sales have grown 60% in the past year...
...excellent returns are available to stockholders who survive such rough patches. In fact, following the 13 10-year periods of negative returns stocks have suffered since 1871, real returns over the next 10 years have never been negative and have averaged more than 10% per year. A 10% return far exceeds the stock market's long-term average real return of 6.6% and is more than three times the real return offered by U.S. Treasury bonds. Furthermore, stocks have always done better than bonds over every 30-year period since 1871. (See the 10 big recession surprises...
...thriller writer Dan Brown, including last year’s totally straight-faced denunciation of “The Da Vinci Code” as an “offense against God.” (The spats tend to come off as amusing largely because the church takes him far more seriously than the rest of the world does.) Yet it’s hard to imagine Brown—or previous bête noire J.K. Rowling—creating a work of such potency as to produce the existential symptoms the Pope fears...
...remained mum. As insistent as it is on passing judgment, the Vatican remains troublingly resistant to singling out any genuinely serious modern art or literature to criticize. Hand-waving vaguely at “contemporary representations of beauty,” or straw-manning Ron and Harry, is far easier than starting a real debate about what role religion can play in the arts. So far, the church’s reaction to complex—if provocative—creative products like Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” has generally...