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...Mail Goggles is activated. I send a control e-mail to test my sober math skills. I subtract 12 from 22, and wonder if I'll ever be too incapacitated to come up with the number 10. "You know you can change the difficulty level," says Laura. We pour ourselves some wine, change the difficulty to Level 3 and start watching a movie. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...stimulus package, which could possibly be dealt with during the congressional "lame duck" session following the election - and faces longer odds in the Senate - could pour up to $150 billion into the economy in the form of massive construction projects, grants to states and additional aid for food stamps and unemployment benefits. Some are calling it "Plan C," coming in the wake of "Plan A" - the Wall Street rescue package - and "Plan B," the effort now underway to recapitalize ailing banks and get credit, the lifeblood of economic health, flowing again. Both of those plans are to be funded...
...idle evening and getting a little exercise. For the teacher - played with arresting fire by Karina Fernandez - flamenco is life itself, a way of staking out and defending feminist territory. Her passion for the dance is obviously fueled by an unhappy love affair, the emotional details of which pour forth in the course of her instruction. Fernandez has only two scenes, but they are as potent as any you are likely to see in any movie and, like the rest of us, Poppy doesn't know whether to laugh, cry or shrug at this naked display of passion...
...banks $692 billion in capital in return for preference shares. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced this evening that the U.S. is working on a plan to go this route, saying that it intends to use some of the $700 billion rescue package passed by Congress to pour money (with some strings attached) into any bank that needs funds. But Japan and E.U. countries like Germany have been reticent...
...paid workers is a way of proving that he can reach out to all walks of American life. No way, no how, Obama's staffers insist, will they do as John Kerry did in 2004, waving the white flag in Missouri a full three weeks before Election Day to pour his resources elsewhere. "We need to make sure no one is confused about Barack Obama's commitment," says McCaskill...