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...from becoming dangerously weak, the dollar, if anything, may be a bit too strong. So far this year it has risen about 6% on average against the currencies of the 19 most important U.S. trading partners. In May the greenback hit a four-year high against the British pound, while the euro, introduced 17 months earlier at a price of $1.17, fell briefly below 90[cents...
...this film we learn that it takes 8,000 lbs. of pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script. In the Bruckheimer tradition, Memphis assembles a team to carry off the job: a father figure (Robert Duvall), the token black (Chi McBride) and a mute (Brit footballer Vinnie Jones) with a gift for setting cars on fire. Angelina Jolie is here as the nominal girl-jock love interest, but Memphis' true love is a Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500. As he says of his early career, "I didn...
...British Parliament members are considering compulsory voting, with a 5[pound] fine against citizens who fail to return a ballot...
...which air traffic controllers warn pilots when a plane is on a collision course with, say, a catering truck: By the time both vehicles show up on the system, reaction time has been cut to seconds. Not the ideal situation if you're trying to stop a 150,000-pound...
...Harvard can't escape the fact that it's often viewed as a 500-pound gorilla, and it becomes a lightening rod," Power says. "In a political setting, it makes the challenges of creating a constructive dialogue with neighborhood groups even more difficult...