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...threat? Have you talked about doing another book? Oh no, no, no. I'm done. I was writing about a period of their lives of which they have no memory. This book is like a little document that fills in a gap in their lives that they would otherwise know nothing about. The two that can read have read it - it's like they're reading about Martians; they don't [remember] any of the stuff they are reading. They can't believe all that happened, and except for the dirty words that shock them, they are totally amused...
Speaking at an annual conference of real estate editors, James Lockhart, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said on Thursday the government shouldn't run Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Lockhart should know. He leads the agency that has been doing just that since last September, when the giant mortgage insurers were put into government conservatorship. Lockhart said his experience with Fannie and Freddie as well as helping to run other government insurance programs taught him that government ownership for these types of companies doesn't work. (See what to expect when the recession ends...
...book about evolutionary psychology, Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, has never been more relevant: Will "the liberation of homosexuals, which allows them to come out of the closet and not pretend to be straight" actually turn out to "contribute to the end of homosexuality?" We may not know for a thousand years, but it's a great question...
...that we're back in the 'Bridge, FlyBy is back for the summer! Sporadically, that is. We don't have as many people, so it's hard to keep up, ya know? We'll try to keep you intermittently entertained as you're chained to that desk, and figure we haven't hit it big enough yet to be blocked by your I-bank's servers. Also, we don't have real jobs, that pay, like, enough money to eat at Qdoba every day...soooo we have really nothing else...
...convict based on genetic evidence - witness the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995, when the ex-football star was acquitted, in part as a result of doubts about the reliability of evidence based on blood found at the murder scene. But analysts say those doubts have eased as scientific know-how improves and the public becomes more familiar with the practice through TV and movies. (One example of its ubiquity: a toy DNA lab based on the CSI TV series is available at Amazon.com.) Authorities say new techniques allow them to successfully analyze ever shrinking quantities of DNA - including from steering...