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...year of high school. Or of some lame memory of your own. —Henry M. CowlesBelieveFort MinorLinkin Park’s Mike Shinoda would love for you to know that he is tremendously clever. Clever enough, according to his website, to give his new group the name Fort Minor to “reflect the dynamic between opposites,” and to write all the songs on his new album. Rest assured, Shinoda hastens to assure his implausibly numerous fans that he is still “an essential shard in the mosaic of Linkin Park...
...quarter than in the same period last year, a 21% jump. That hardship is prompting some to rethink holiday splurges. But prices have come down from their post-Katrina highs, far enough to spur a spike in consumer confidence. For a while, says college student May Rashid, 22, in Fort Worth, Texas, "gas prices were taking all my money," and she planned to cut holiday spending. Now, with gas prices falling, she figures the crunch will be manageable and is enticed to keep shopping because "I keep finding things that I know people would really want...
Sources: USA Today (2); Fort Worth Star-Telegram (2); Wall Street Journal (2); Washington Post...
...Dyke got his start in the dusty fields of Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1951. His mentor, wildcatter S.D. Johnson, taught him the basics: find a farmer with promising land and get him to lease you the rights, then find an oil company willing to drill. Van Dyke hitchhiked to Fort Worth and Dallas to make his first deals. "I had about $500 to my name," he says. "I slept in whorehouses." He had no capital to invest in drilling, so he put the farmers and the oil companies together, typing the contracts on a portable typewriter on the hood...
...relaxed one r.p.m. on the track. "Trust me," he tells TIME, "when it's time to be aggressive, I can still be aggressive. I haven't forgotten how to do that." He won five of the tour's 26 regular races, and going into last weekend's race in Fort Worth, Texas, he had a 43-point lead in the Chase over a posse including Johnson, Biffle, Kyle Busch and veterans Rusty Wallace, 49, and Mark Martin, 46, who are on their last laps before retiring this year. That seems like enough of a cushion. Then again, this is NASCAR...