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...Breakdown: To imagine the pick-up basketball scene at the MAC, first picture the premiere streetball courts of a Brooklyn or a Venice Beach. Now replace the hard-nosed, dog-eat-dog competitors with that kid in your Spanish section. Then replace the legions of fans with a handful of medical school students playing badminton. Even though the level of play isn’t always up to snuff, most students agree that the intensity at the MAC makes it a superior locale. “For true believers,” says MAC enthusiast William H. Frank...
Inflation that you feel but can't see comes in many forms. Real estate prices have gone through the roof, so cash buyers are paying through the nose. Borrowers are increasingly resorting to floating-rate and interest-only loans, which all but guarantee that they will pay more over the life of their loans. Officially, though, housing looks like a bargain. Why? The housing component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is based on rents, which are tame and in some regions have even fallen...
Dressed in baggy jeans and a tattered sweatshirt, he looked humble and vaguely more ordinary than I had imagined. M83’s music is so imposing, so uniquely electro-emo, that I must have expected something hipper. When Gonzalez smiled, his mouth curled quickly around his nose and he crossed his arms...
...Late nights at The Advocate can cause nose-itching and, in some cases, accidental laying out of a literary magazine...
...First came a reddish illumination that shot up to about 26,000 ft.," the pilot recalled. "Then came a shower of ash that covered us and left me without visibility. The cockpit filled with smoke and heat and the smell of sulfur." The blast charred the nose of the DC-8 and turned the aircraft's windows white. Flying only on instruments, Cervero diverted the plane to the city of Cali, 20 minutes from Bogot. Making his final approach, the pilot said, he had to push open one of the cockpit's side windows in order to catch a glimpse...