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...Thursday is the day of the consumer, on whom - getting tired of hearing this yet? - the hopes of the economy to avoid a recession are still resting, and will probably rest until Christmas. Personal income is expected to inch up along with personal spending; hair splitters will try to figure out how much of that was tax cuts/rebates, and how much of that went straight into the bank. Also, the ECB has a chance to cut rates (it's not shown nearly the desperation so far that Greenspan's outfit has) and some say the relatively strong euro makes that...
...What obdurate force the creature possessed. He actually seemed to be dragging the boat. Moby-Dick! I hauled and reeled, under the sardonic eye of the cormorants - hauled and reeled...and mentally I had this 55-inch (at least) phenomenon iced down and on the way to the taxidermist down the road... when, after a moment or two of struggle, it began to dawn on me that my titan underwater was oddly immobile, conducting his side of the war from a fixed location. This disconcerted me. I was moving. The boat was moving. The brute, however, remained (as I could...
...These factors operating together resulted in head impact," wrote crash injury experts James Raddin and James Benedict in NASCAR's two-volume, two-inch-thick report. "None of these factors alone can be conclusively isolated as the cause" of Earnhardt?s death...
...When he and his buddy decide to sneak into a party at her house where jocks in polo shirts cavort to bubbly synth pop, it's not social awkwardness they're worried about; should things go awry, the audience is led to believe, they may be pummeled within an inch of their lives. "Crowd" is also crucial in "The Breakfast Club" (1985), in which teenagers from five different social strata thrown together in detention spend a whole movie figuring out how to get along, "Can't Buy Me Love" (1987), in which a dork bribes a popular girl into pretending...
...develop a visible six-pack. They are either unable to attain the requisite muscle mass or they can't lose enough fat to make a difference. Even if the underlying musculature is well developed, all it takes to obscure it is a layer of fat one-sixteenth of an inch thick. That's enough to exclude most healthy women as well as plenty of guys who do crunches every...