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...drove a bus eight hours a day in New York City. A lot of people have far harder jobs than I have. Wake Up with Al on the Weather Channel starts at 6 a.m. I get up at 3:15; I'm in the office by 4:45. It helps me in a way, because I've already been doing the weather for an hour by the time I get to the Today show...
...they're fighting it out to protect a girl's virginity.) If, to some parents, J.K. Rowling's subtlety makes her lessons suspect, I think it makes them powerful. Kids, like adults, resist force-feeding. When a whole generation obsessed about Harry, parents everywhere were given a rich new repertoire of characters and plotlines with which to teach about loyalty, courage, humility and, Rowling's central message, the notion that love has ultimate power, even over death...
Gold, that barbarous relic, is having a thoroughly modern moment in the spotlight. Its price in dollars ($1,170 per ounce when last I checked) is setting a new record every few days. Cash4Gold and its competitors have been flooding the airwaves with ads exhorting you to fork over your gold jewelry for dollars. And for the first time since 1971, when U.S. President Richard Nixon unilaterally yanked the world off the gold standard, gold is also attracting interest from a crowd that usually doesn't pay it much heed: the world's central bankers...
...price of gold in dollars has more than quadrupled since the end of the long gold bear market in April 2001, but over the long run the return has averaged about 2% a year, says George Milling-Stanley, managing director for government affairs at the World Gold Council in New York. (That compares with about 8% for stocks.) It's less a ticket to riches than what Milling-Stanley calls an "insurance policy." Many of the commodity investors who have recently piled into gold are looking for big gains, not insurance, and their involvement may guarantee that gold's price...
...pair moved to New York City and began to dream about larger projects. Over the years they wrapped the Pont-Neuf in Paris and Berlin's Reichstag in bright woven fabric, ran a 24.5-mile (39.4 km) curtain fence across the Northern California landscape and created the completely enchanting project called The Gates--7,503 saffron-colored fabric panels that hung from what looked like portable goalposts positioned every few yards along the paths of New York City's Central Park...