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...devise insurance premiums since the 18th century. With modern computing power, though, financial engineers captured, packaged and sold risk exposure in startlingly new ways. Buying protection against a bad corn harvest or a spike in interest rates was just the beginning. Over time, as instruments became more complex, a huge shift occurred. Risk itself became the thing to trade--and to make money on. In the process, risk was redistributed to the people who could best handle it, making everyone safer...
Everyone knows karaoke is huge internationally. It's getting bigger in the U.S., thanks in part to the popularity of video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Which means that my home karaoke bar will need to offer more than your average console. Hence my interest in a number of karaoke sites--and maybe cocktails made with Everclear--that could help make Quittner's Qaraoke Qorner a bustling home business...
...Signs of Huge Missouri Turnout on Both Sides...
...Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, co-chair of the Obama campaign, was reached by phone on her way to cast her vote in Kirkwood, a St. Louis suburb. She said she had been on the phone all morning collecting reports of huge turnout in Democratic and Republican precincts alike. Reports of the heaviest voting, she said, came from urban areas, and "that's great news...
...Reykjavik - like the Centerhotel Thingholt - are as low as $60 a night. Sure, if you go in the late fall or winter you'll get only about five hours of sunlight a day - but Icelanders know how to make those hours count. Move fast - tourist agencies are reporting a huge spike in visitors to Iceland...