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Like a comet in the night sky, they flared oh-so-brightly and disappeared--and then came back a few years later. In 1997 the pop group HANSON--brothers ZAC (the little one), TAYLOR (the cute one) and ISAAC (the other one)--sold more than 8 million copies of their debut album, Middle of Nowhere (maybe you remember their No. 1 single, MMMBop), but the band's second effort flopped, and Hanson went away for a long stay in pop purgatory. Now they're back playing club dates in support of a folksy new album called Underneath Acoustic. Little...
...important? Because the first thing banks and other lenders do when you apply for a car loan, a new credit card or that mortgage for your dream house is check out your credit report and ranking. Your credit score, often called a FICO score after the Fair Isaac Corporation, which calculates the number, gives lenders a snapshot of your financial life and can determine whether you'll qualify for that loan and how much you'll pay for it. The scale ranges from 300 to 850; the average consumer's score...
When Rowe discovered she had landed an abysmal 519, she logged on to Fair Isaac's website, www.myfico.com to find out what she could do about it. Her report said she had defaulted on a student loan twice (it happened only once) and listed credit cards she didn't have. By correcting those mistakes and continuing to pay her bills promptly, she raised her score to 700 within a year...
...idea of "self-evident" truths was one that drew less on Locke, who was Jefferson's favored philosopher, than on the scientific determinism espoused by Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of Franklin's close friend David Hume. In what became known as "Hume's fork," the great Scottish philosopher had developed a theory that distinguished between "synthetic" truths that describe matters of fact (such as "London is bigger than Philadelphia") and "analytic" truths that are so by virtue of reason and definition ("the angles of a triangle total 180 degrees"; "all bachelors are unmarried"). Hume referred to the latter...
...knew that [the national hour-cap] was going to happen at some point,” said Meigs Professor of Gynecology Isaac Schiff, who heads the department. “We began to respond to it and anticipate it. Our residents are excellent residents; we thought it would be better for our own well-being if they could be alert and not exhausted and provide the best care...