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...cadre of cartoon geniuses-South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone-to another, earlier one: Matt Groening, James L. Brooks and their team of highly educated misfits, who developed Groening's crudely drawn one-minute Tracey Ullman Show vignettes of a chinless yellow family into a half-hour sitcom, nay, a veritable comedy cosmos that this fall begins its record-breaking 19th season...
...HARRY POTTER 10.95 million Number of copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold in the U.S. and the U.K. in the first 24 hours after the book went on sale July 21, a publishing record 150 Estimated number of copies sold per second in its first hour on sale...
...flagpole" and all the bureaucracy of life back at the main base. In Karbala, roughly 30 men were on their own for a week or so at a time, staying at the city's governance center, where the police headquarters sat next to the governor's office. The two-hour drive from Iskandariyah could be nerve-racking as they eyed the edges of the route for roadside bombs. But once at the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center, life was simple and good in the way soldiers like...
...what he considered an embarrassing problem to his sister, who assured him, "Everyone gets lice," and told him to call Penny Warner, owner of the Texas Lice Squad. For two days and about $1,000, Warner (who has a minivan-based operation in their hometown and charges $55 an hour) manually combed the nits out of the hair of both Deutser children and did the same for their housekeeper and her daughter. "We were so blown away with the experience and the emotional drain the lice had put on us," Steven says, "that I was amazed there weren't more...
...society suffers the consequences. By instituting a tax, the government is effectively transforming crowded city streets into private goods. Those who need the roads the most can do so uninhibited by traffic by paying for the privilege. Additionally, cars (especially cars that idle frequently while attempting to negotiate rush-hour gridlock) confer negative externalities due to the pollution they emit. By giving commuters more reason to use alternative methods of transportation, a congestion tax helps bring driving down to a more socially optimal level...