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...little over a year ago, the credit crisis caused the municipal-bond market to grind to a halt. Shell-shocked investors pulled back from even munis, which are normally considered a relatively safe bet. Bond yields soared. Local governments were forced to delay raising money. And auctions of short-term variable-rate muni securities failed. (Read "Five Painless Ways to Cut Expenses...
...strong words for what, going strictly by the numbers, has been nothing more than a retracing of the dollar rally that followed last fall's financial panic. When investors around the world got scared late last year, they poured money into U.S. Treasury securities that they perceived to be safe. That drove up the dollar. Then, after a few months, investors began taking risks again, putting money back into the U.S. stock market and into all sorts of investments in the rest of the world. So the dollar fell. (See 10 things you didn't know about money...
Instead, the Crimson knelt and let the clock run out—a play-it-safe strategy that continued even into the fourth quarter, when it became a two-score game...
From the start, the popular shorthand for the safe landing of Flight 1549 has been "the miracle on the Hudson." But that's not the way you see it. Miracle? Absolutely not. It's a catchy, superficial media term. It's almost an insult to Sullenberger: God was not his co-pilot, [First Officer Jeffrey] Skiles was. These were two very competent pilots who did a great job of flying, and they were flying an extremely capable airplane. Sullenberger and Skiles did not in any sense think of this as a miracle. They thought of this as a job they...
...education campaign designed to facilitate the "development of healthy habits, self-esteem and safety." Although the publicly funded campaign includes the publication of pamphlets and an online magazine, the highlight is a series of workshops for 14-to-17-year-olds aimed at educating participants on anatomy, body image, safe-sex practices, gender equality and, in the mildly celebratory words of an early press release (since redacted), "sexual self-exploration and erotic self-knowledge." Or, in other words, masturbation. (See a TIME cover story...