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...counter he hears seniors cursing themselves for not laying out $200 their first year at college to buy a tuxedo; they now have to suffer their seventh $50 rental. He feels good about his prescient move to purchase his tux in October of his first year...
When I went under the knife in seventh grade, the doctor asked me to talk about my favorite baseball team as the drugs slowly lured me into unconsciousness. Only baseball could make a 12-year-old kid not worry about surgery...
UCLA (40-18-1), currently ranked seventh in the nation, received an at-large bid after losing the Pac-10 Southern division title to No. 6-Stanford. UCLA has amassed a 19-11 conference record in a conference that includes several ranked teams, including No. 10 USC and Stanford. The Bruins beat the Cardinals in four out of six games this season...
...booster rocket carrying a military satellite exploded and crashed after liftoff from Kazakstan. The explosion was caused by an emergency shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines 48 seconds after launch, Russian Space Agency officials said. No injuries were reported. It was the twenty-eighth launch and seventh failure of a Zenit-2 since 1985. For Russia, the disaster is the latest in a string of setbacks, which have included fires on-board Mir and delays in the construction of critical components for the international space station. But TIME's Jeffrey Kluger reports that such difficulties...
...gross domestic product has made this upturn remarkably steady. Many economists say this tranquillity is owing to the Federal Reserve's strategy of tightening credit in the middle of the decade before prices could turn up. "Inflation is the lowest in 30 years, even though we are in the seventh year of an expansion," says Ed Yardeni, chief economist for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. "This is extraordinary...