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...with football downplay the curse. "What we've been involved with has been coincidence after coincidence," Erb said in 2005. "We've just had a string of bad luck." After being waylaid by a broken foot in 2006, Seattle's Alexander declared, "Curse or no curse, everybody, and I mean everybody, wants to be on that cover. I don't know one person that would...
...from one human to another, we're currently at phase 3. If the WHO upgraded that status to phase 4, which is marked by a new virus that begins to pass easily enough from person to person that we can detect community-sized outbreaks, such a move would effectively mean that we've got a pandemic on our hands...
...thriller more than doubled the take of its nearest competitor, 17 Again, and earned nearly as much over the weekend as the total of the three other movies that opened in wide release. It is the all-time highest grosser (surpassing the 2004 Lindsay Lohan-Tina Fey comedy Mean Girls) for the last weekend in April, when traditionally hardly anyone goes to the movies...
...what does that mean for those of us who care about the earth but would prefer not to smell like it? Luckily, eco-friendly detergents exist that are just as effective at cleaning clothes as their brand-name counterparts. According to the “Did You Know?” section of the label on vegetable-based detergent Seventh Generation, “If every household in the U.S. replaced just one bottle of 100 oz. 2x ultra petroleum-based liquid laundry detergent with our 100 oz. 2x ultra vegetable-based product, we could save 460,000 barrels...
...drifting away from retail research doesn't necessarily mean giving up on research line altogether. As institutional investors, particularly hedge funds, have taken a beating in the market and been forced to trim costs including staff, the demand for outside research has in some quarters actually increased. "There are different kinds of independent research," says Argus president John Eade. "As the settlement winds down, the focus is shifting away from ratings and reports to evolving forms, like expert networks and primary sources-meetings with our analysts, our institutional clients and different CEOs and CFOs we've gotten to know...