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When they divvy up the $27 billion intelligence budget each year, it's not the well-known CIA that takes the lion's share. The real haul goes to an obscure agency called the National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and deploys the country's high-tech, supersecret spy satellites. For the billions of dollars it receives, the NRO produces portfolios of invaluable high-resolution pictures (which can indeed read license plates from space). The photos give the U.S. a jump on adversaries as diverse as North Korean missile builders and South American drug lords...
...abreast and boast a king-size 46 in. between rows. The industry average is 32 in. for coach and about 38 in. for first class, one reason Legend trumpets itself as providing first-class comfort at coach fares. Why 56 seats? That's the limit for long-haul carriers flying out of Dallas' Love Field, under a 1979 federal law intended to protect the sprawling Dallas/Fort Worth airport, which just happens to be American Airlines' home base...
...Haul that ass over to The Castle in a glass-enclosed trolley. You better work...
...should you turn off the TV? Studies have shown that unusual volatility is as likely to precede a sharp run-up as a sharp decline. If you're invested for the long haul, why put yourself through the agony of watching short-term declines--especially ones as steep as last Friday's--that tempt you to panic? I don't mean to pick on CNBC. But it's the market leader in televised stock talk, and when the market is sinking, the anchors' grim faces and funereal tones only quicken your despair. Once weaned from hourly updates, you'll find...
...that we will forever remain the willful, capricious, appalling creatures that we have been ever since our species emerged during the late Ice Ages. The good news is that we will remain the creative, interesting, caring, wonderful creatures that we have been for exactly as long. Over the long haul, human nature will almost certainly stay as idiosyncratic as it is today. It's unrealistic to hope that evolution will ride in on its white horse in the next 50--or even 500,000--years to improve the breed and save us from our follies. We shall have to learn...