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...that their labels don't typically disclose how much caffeine they contain. And yet some of them are crammed with the drug: Sumseeds, a brand of caffeinated sunflower seeds, contain 120 mg of caffeine per packet, 16% more than in a typical 6-oz. serving of coffee. Shower Shock soap is designed to deliver a crackling 200 mg of caffeine when lathered into the skin, twice the amount in that same cup of coffee...
When I heard on the news that Ruslan had been killed, I called an acquaintance. We both respected Ruslan and were saddened by his death, but we also confessed to each other that we did not feel shock. Political murder has become such a standard part of life here that nobody is surprised anymore. Five years ago, my friend Yuri Shchekochikhin, a journalist and a member of the Duma "mysteriously" died (most likely poisoned). He ran afoul of politicians and business interests alike and received death threats constantly. Officially, prosecutors said he died of an allergy, but his family...
...concerns, so we bought a loan-performance database of mortgage-backed securities. We saw some pretty astonishing things. The starter rates were very high, between 7% and 9%, and within a couple of years they could jump by 600 basis points. No one could handle that level of payment shock. In fact nobody was - they were just refinancing...
...smoldering at him from inside a gilded frame on the Uffizi wall. Those eyes, the cruel twist of his upper lip, the falling curls of hair, the luminous skin, the ... the ... well, that, in all its bold tumescence. It was surely him. He had seen the waves of shock pass through Felicity’s body when she glimpsed the painting, and then he had seen the painted Stable Boy take possession of his living wife all over again...
After greatest hits like Abu Ghraib and domestic eavesdropping, it takes a particularly brazen abuse of power to shock most Americans weary from eight years of the Bush Administration's war on terror. Even the recent revelation that the National Security Agency has been listening to the private calls of our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq probably didn't surprise too many jaded citizens. But the news that Maryland State Police had entered the names and personal information of 53 peaceful left-wing activists and protesters into state and federal databases as terrorists, well that may take the cake. None...