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Once I thought I had all the time in the world to mull over my quarrels with the church. The thing is, Father, I don't. My mother has fought cancer for years now, and it is spreading fast. This is not a good time for me to deny myself the support of spiritual community and inspiriting ritual. In my desire to return to church, I see the Latin Mass as an acceptable solution: With your back to the congregation and speaking in a dead language, you would find it difficult to tell me how to vote. Allow...
...Harry Potter.) So why bother to settle in the U.S.? For the same reason that investment bankers from New Jersey like London--because the two nations have so much in common. Britain and the U.S. are the most messy, undeferential, schlocky societies on earth, places that like making a fast buck, that enjoy celebrity precisely because it is fleeting. Such characteristics may not be the conventional stuff of shared language and wartime alliance that are supposed to bind the two nations together, but these days they are a much stronger glue. Victoria: Welcome. You're going to feel right...
...tallest people in the world for years, but now it's in the middle of the pack. Improved prenatal care may have contributed to growth abroad, while fast food and uneven health care may be keeping U.S. height down. Another factor: more urbanites. The average Kansan man is as tall as his European counterparts, but male Manhattanites are about 1.75 in. (4.5 cm) shorter. A look at the pecking order [This article contains a chart. Please see hardcopy...
...Interest rates are set in two main ways. Short-term rates--like those on credit cards, home-equity loans and adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMS)--are determined mostly by the Federal Reserve. It sets them with an eye on inflation. If the Fed fears that prices are rising too fast, it will raise rates to slow the economy. Longer-term rates, like those on a standard mortgage, are set on the open market. They are partly a bet on how well the Fed will control inflation but also reflect supply and demand. If there are lots of people with money...
...reality is that it's difficult to get out fast. It took the Soviets nine months to pull 120,000 troops out of Afghanistan. They were simply going next door, and they still lost more than 500 men on the way out. Pulling out 10 combat brigades - roughly 30,000 troops, along with their gear and support personnel - would take at least 10 months, Pentagon officials say. And that's only part of the picture. There are civilians who would probably want to head for the exit when GIs started packing. They include some 50,000 U.S. contractors and tens...