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...over the question of how useful the 8,800 MRAPs now on order will be after Iraq. "Can I give a satisfactory answer to what we're going to be doing with those things in five or 10 years? Probably not," the Marines' top officer said. "Wrap them in shrink wrap and put them in asphalt somewhere is about the best thing that we can describe at this point. And as expensive as they are, that is probably not a good use of the taxpayers' money...
...clear that it benefits the artists. Some acts like Radiohead and Prince have recently bypassed labels - and the tremendous cut of profits they typically take - altogether. Last week Radiohead released its new album, "In Rainbows," online with a "pay what you want" model. Similarly, Prince gave away 3 million shrink-wrapped copies of his new album last year in London's Sunday Mail newspaper...
...Lustberg is a Mets fan, and hearing a shrink struggle to cope is very comforting. "I was driving to work today, and I go, 'Aw, s__, the Mets aren't on tonight," says Lustberg. "What am I going to do? I'm annoyed with the team. There has to be a period of withdrawal, and I know it's going to take a little while...
...about 63,000 sq m) Fifth Avenue flagship store, which hasn't been touched since the 1970s. In addition to redoing the entire store inside and out and opening a specialty eatery by Drew Nieporent (the restaurateur who operates Nobu and Tribeca Grill), Baker will shrink the store to a more manageable size and rent out the remaining space as luxury offices. The money made will be reinvested in the store...
...their money (about 12.5% of the bank's total savings deposits) and helped sink Northern Rock's stock by 56%. As worries spread across the sector, other banks' shares dropped by as much as a third. And every day, the lines outside the branches seemed to grow rather than shrink...