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...longer can undergraduates sink their teeth into that scrumptious breaded chicken filet, nestled in warm buttered rolls along with lettuce, tomato and two happy pickles. Waffle fries, as heavily-crisped as they were salted, are gone from our lives. Nuggets are nowhere to be found...
...cliffside so fire would pass over it. But after the fires of the past 10 days, that troglodyte house is all that is left of the Vérets' summer retreat. Flames laid waste to everything, leaving only the skeletons of a few cork oaks and the aluminum kitchen sink from a trailer where their vacationing daughter and grandchildren had been staying. "It looks like Verdun in 1916," she says. "The devastation is terrifying." Five dead tourists, 19 wounded firefighters, 30,000 hectares destroyed - spurred by unusually high winds, the worst fires in more than a decade in the desiccated...
According to Baer, the Saudis can do no right. Even when they sink a trillion dollars into U.S. banks, he sees only potential blackmail and warns of dire consequences if the money is ever withdrawn. Or when the Saudis help the U.S. by keeping a lid on oil prices, he labels the assistance nothing more than blood money. Baer argues, somewhat implausibly, that the monarchy's demise is imminent. In that event, he suggests--even more implausibly--that the U.S. seriously con-sider a military takeover of the oil fields...
...They agreed to submit--on the condition that two of the accusers take the same test. With colorful details of all the pomp, Franklin described the process. The accused and accusers all succeed in outweighing the Bible. But both of the accused and one of the accusers fail to sink in the river, thus indicating that they are witches. The more intelligent spectators conclude that most people naturally float. The others are not so sure and resolve to wait until summer when the experiment could be tried with the subjects unclothed...
HEDGE Keep the house, but dump any other real estate assets. Stocks of home builders, mortgage lenders, movers, furniture companies and real estate investment trusts will sink if the housing market goes bust. In his book The Coming Crash in the Housing Market, author John Talbott suggests selling these stocks short or buying "put" options on them. Both strategies produce gains as stocks fall. These sophisticated moves should not be made without consulting an adviser...