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...more important is the ship itself. The shuttles have been pricey, lethal failures for a lot of reasons. They?re too complicated, too finicky, and they break too many rules of safe space travel. Until the shuttle, no human being had ever been launched into space with solid-fuel rockets - comparatively primitive motors that burn a sort of rubbery goo and can neither be throttled up and down nor shut off once they?re lit. The shuttle?s two external engines burn solid fuel, and it was one of those that destroyed the Challenger. Moreover, until the shuttle, the crew...
Finale: 1. A dessert-and-coffee hotspot on Dunster Street. 2. The place to spot your friends on awkward first dates, or partake in a lonely (and pricey) molten chocolate cake...
...deep and gorgeous thirst. The sommelier, Yuka Maekawa, concealed any surprise at our rate of consumption but packed a few surprises of her own. Female Japanese sommeliers aren't thick on the ground in Italy; yet the biggest break from tradition was her determination to steer us away from pricey bottles to cheaper choices, all delicious. This didn't stop us from racking up three of the great Italian classics, Sassicaia, Ornellaia and Tignanello - after we joined forces with G. We'd met before but it took me awhile to notice him at the next table, as the cuisine commanded...
...some market watchers point out that the run-up in emerging markets has left stocks pretty darn pricey. The average price-to-book ratio for such equities has been in the neighborhood of 1.5 to 2 since the mid-1990s, says Schweitzer. Today that ratio is closer to 2.25. "We've had a correction," he says, "but they are still expensive relative to their own history." That's part of the reason Schweitzer is currently finding more value for his money in developed markets like Western Europe...
...Today's downtown is a jumble of traffic-clogged streets, luxury hotels, Hugo Boss and Louis Vuitton stores, and foreign eateries like Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. At the Portofino housing complex on the city's outskirts, golf carts carry residents from their lavish condominiums to the development's pricey European restaurant...