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...dollar dropped to 88.33 yen today from 83.35 late yesterday, while simultaneously picking up modest gains against European currencies. The British pound was virtually unchanged...
While Alvarez crunched on cereal, Alexis D. Perry '95 went green. "My personal favorite plan is to go to Star Market, get a three-pound bag of salad, some tomatoes, cucumbers, sprouts, mushrooms, and an onion. That's enough salad for three or four days. With a can of soup, that's dinner...
Cockroaches crawled upNewt Gingrich's lapels and a 50-pound bearcat sat on his head during Columbus Zoo director Jack Hanna's visit to the Speaker's office today. Gingrich, who said his boyhood dream had been to be a zookeeper, invited Hanna to drop by with a few friends, which also included a python and a poisonous African toad. Although Hanna normally includes a tiger in his entourage, Capitol Police balked at letting him pack a tranquilizer gun. Instead, Hanna brought a newt. "Notice how small and unprepossessing they are," Gingrich said, with a smile, as the newt stood...
...massive explosion on Mars millions of years ago blasted into orbit rocks that have landed on Earth during recent decades, University of California at San Diego chemist Kurt Marti said today. Marti claims that he has confirmed that a 40-pound meteorite that landed in Nigeria in 1962 was a piece of the distant planet. He explained that gas bubbles trapped inside the meteorite were matched with the atmosphere that the U.S. Viking spacecraft found on Mars in 1976. Marti said further testing showed that the meteorite was wandering in space for about three million years before it landed...
...mark as a worldwide reserve currency. "There is little doubt that the dollar is in transition to a less dominant status in the global financial system," says David Hale, senior economist for Kemper Financial Services, based in Chicago. Investment guru Jimmy Rogers likens the situation to the pound's decline: "When sterling started losing its role as the world's reserve currency, especially after the Second World War, there was a sterling crisis every year. It was a constant and ongoing thing. We are somewhere into that process...