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...never learned then. Kids give you an excuse to work on your fastball. They're excellent bed warmers, and small fingers can untie hopeless knots. They remind you to be brave and trusting, and that few things worth accomplishing are ever achieved without making a mess first. They often say better prayers than you could ever think to. They smell really good, at least when they're clean...
According to market-research firm Mintel, two-thirds of millennials consider themselves cooking enthusiasts, and 22% say they try to eat gourmet food whenever they can. "They like to share stuff with their friends, and food is something you can talk about," says Carol Phillips, who teaches marketing at Notre Dame. "It's a connection...
...Washington More Strife Over Ousted Attorneys House Democrats released thousands of pages of congressional testimony and White House e-mails they say are evidence that senior aides to President George W. Bush played improper roles in the 2006 firings of nine U.S. Attorneys. The documents indicate that political strategist Karl Rove placed an "agitated" phone call complaining about New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, who was later pink-slipped. (Rove insists he did nothing wrong.) The scandal led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; a criminal probe continues...
...What They're Suspending in the U.S.: Strapped for cash, Florida, Massachusetts and Maryland eliminated their annual sales-tax holidays--periods in August when customers can buy items like clothing and school supplies tax-free. While critics argue that the consumer savings would have stimulated the economy, the states say their ailing budgets desperately need to retain the millions in tax revenue...
...competitive market, it's a little hard to say why the exchanges shouldn't engage in all this. But there is one nagging concern: that equity markets now move so insanely fast that they could go off the rails spectacularly. "I can't tell you what all this volume of trading will mean," says electronic-trading pioneer E.E. (Buzzy) Geduld, who sold his firm, Herzog Heine Geduld, to Merrill Lynch in 2000. "I can tell you there may be some unintended consequences and this all may blow up." Competition and innovation tend to make markets explode from time to time...