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...idle question. Despite concerns about hardening arteries and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), the average American still eats 95 lbs. (43 kg) of beef a year, and the average European puts away 40 lbs. (18 kg). Yet in taste terms, little of the 66 million tons of beef produced annually is worth the cholesterol it contains. All too often, unwitting consumers splurge on a steak dinner and end up with shoe leather. Thanks to anti-BSE measures and rising feed prices, most cattle are slaughtered at less than 30 months; they're too young and too crowded...
...Yeah, and then he got mad at me because I fired him from being a handyman. He had this dilemma, because he wanted to sort of blackmail me. He wanted to get even with me for firing him, but he couldn’t get even with me by outing me, because I’d outed myself. That’s why he came up with these very elaborate lies, most of which I was able to prove were lies...
...Sort of. To be sure, our various species of political animal have come out of hibernation: the detached prognosticators, the spit-shined climbers, the smug ignoramuses. The College’s political energy has actually been kind of underwhelming. And some members of the Class of 1967 are hopping mad about it. They’re so fed up with our general political disengagement, in fact, that they took to drastic measures: no less an act of protest than an “Open Letter to President Drew Faust.” What would we need to do to prove...
...Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer...
...bombastic host of CNBC's Mad Money is not known for understatement. His wild on-air rant in August about Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke became a YouTube favorite. So it's hardly surprising that this book makes Cramer-sized claims about who can become wealthy: "I don't care if you don't have two cents to your name or if you owe thousands of dollars in credit-card debt." But he displays surprising earnestness in showing readers how to beat the market by saving steadily and studying...