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CONTEXT Longer hemlines are showing up in fashion designs for spring 2008, indicating that U.S. economic woes could worsen. Nicole Miller and Josh Goot had hemlines at the knee, and Generra and Miss Sixty's hems were mostly midthigh. The fashion houses could just be foreshadowing what will come next year: by 2008, 2 million people could foreclose on their homes as a result of the subprime-mortgage crisis...
...Indeed, despite Lucky and Flo's admirable efforts, there's only so much a single pair of pups can do. "To really investigate every nook and cranny of K.L., you'd need a whole kennel of these dogs," says Allan Miller, head of AJ Miller Consulting, a professional corporate investigator based in the Malaysian capital who spends one-third of his time on intellectual-property issues. "To say that [Lucky and Flo] really made a huge difference borders on the ludicrous. It's more publicity hype than anything else." Miller notes that police crackdowns come and go, but pirated...
Given what happened with Lisa Nowak, should astronauts be held to a higher standard? -Chad Miller, COLOGNE, GERMANYAstronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities. I think Nowak should be admired for traveling across the country at night and not getting out of her car to put in gas or go to the restroom. It is not excusable, but it is understandable for an achiever to fall into a trap...
...assumed there would be a lot of partisan bickering over the new approaches being taken. But that hasn't happened. Democrat George Miller, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, came down and worked out ways to provide incentives for the teachers and educators willing to move there. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, a former Education Secretary, have also become deeply involved in finding practical solutions to the myriad federal bureaucratic challenges that come with building a new type of system from scratch...
...Holly Miller, DENVER...