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...reason Season 3 could offer that closure was that it seemed unlikely there would be a Season 4. But the low-rated, high-quality FNL has returned on DirecTV's 101 Network (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), thanks to a continuation of its cost-sharing deal with the satellite company. (The season will air on NBC sometime next year...
...school in Chicago to care for his increasingly senile grandmother; the Taylors' daughter Julie (Aimee Teegarden) may out her parents as hypocrites when she insists on transferring to East Dillon over their objections. And tragic hunk Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) is off to college - if he can overcome his low self-esteem and bad family history enough to tough...
There will be casualties. But REITs with access to capital could potentially pick up properties and mortgage assets at fire-sale prices. "[Well-capitalized REITs] are going to be the most competitive out there with their access to [low-cost] capital," says Tom Bohjalian, senior vice president and portfolio manager at Cohen & Steers...
...House on Oct. 22 from the Human Space Flights Plan Committee said the Constellation program's goals were underfunded. The committee, headed by Norman Augustine, retired chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp., concluded that NASA needs another $3 billion a year to pursue meaningful human space exploration beyond low Earth orbit. Facing a $1.4 trillion federal deficit, even NASA's most ardent supporters in Congress, who represent some of the 60,000 jobs associated with the agency, acknowledge that additional funding will be hard to come...
...Orszag has been particularly enthusiastic about the potential for health-related nudges to help "bend the cost curve," the soaring costs of care that are bankrupting the Treasury. For example, Medicare and Medicaid patients who don't select their insurance plans could be defaulted into low-cost options, and computerized medical records could prompt doctors to prescribe generic drugs, while still allowing them to select name brands instead. The thinking is that they usually won't, and they usually shouldn...