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...into my uncle’s 1-year-old BMW. I was sitting in the front next to my uncle. We [went] as fast as my uncle deemed possible, which at times included over 80 miles per hour on the mountain roads. About 15 minutes into our drive, my uncle asked my friend, “Is there anything by your feet?” [He] reached back and pulled out a handgun...
...with a mouth-watering menu at a restaurant? Then you may well have found your culinary salvation in Seasons 52. Inspired by a brilliantly simple idea, the Florida-based restaurant chain serves modern American dishes with an emphasis on seasonal ingredients-and a calorie count of 475 or less per course. That doesn't mean you'll spend an evening toying listlessly with plain steamed broccoli and dry turkey breast. Instead, think flavorful starters like a tomato-and-blue-cheese stack (352 calories) or mushrooms stuffed with baked shrimp and crab and coated with caramelized Parmesan (302 calories). Choose from...
...across Europe - and the eagerness of poor North African countries to join the global tuna trade. "It's like a poor man's Lotto," Hogarth says. "I've seen one tuna sell for $60,000." Despite such sums, prices on Europe's docksides have plummeted from about €10 per kg five years ago to as little as half that today. Paradoxically - you might think that a collapsing price indicated an expanding supply - environmental groups believe that reflects massive overfishing. With fish, excessive harvesting can drive down the price until stocks suddenly run out. "It's like...
Tensions are spiking in the Middle East, and so is the price of oil, which reached $77 per bbl. That's a record, and not a good one as far as motorists and investors are concerned. Nor is it happy news for inflation, which is already at a 16-year high largely because of surging fuel costs. Consumer prices of all stripes rose at an annualized rate of 5.2% in May--enough to take some of the fun out of shopping. But Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, is on the case. The Fed raised its benchmark interest...
...wouldn't expect a lot of relief on gasoline prices," says Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley. In addition to geopolitical tension, the hurricane season and its potential to disrupt refineries on the Gulf of Mexico lie ahead. And as we grudgingly get used to $3-per-gal. gasoline--it's been nearly two years since crude oil broke $50 a barrel--companies feel more comfortable passing along their own higher costs to customers...