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...wedding day, perky Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) is pacing outside the chapel when, darn the luck, she's assaulted by a meteor. She stumbles into the ceremony, where she quickly expands to an unsuitable size - 49 ft. 11½ in., to be exact. Wearing the incredible elasto-gowns indispensable to expanding humans in family-friendly movies, Susan is secreted into an Area 51 prison and saddled with the monster moniker Ginormica. Given her powers of radioactive feminismo, she really should be called Gynormica - a heroine the followers of Hillary Clinton could believe in. (Watch TIME's video "Captain...
...debt market the way that the U.S. Treasury can. China may not want to own paper from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and it is hard to blame the communist central government in the big Asian country for that. The U.S. is still viewed as unique in both the size of its GDP and its potential to maintain impressive economic growth rates over long periods of time, in large part because of its vast pool of consumers. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...BASKETBALL HOOP Installed by George H.W. Bush, the half-size court hosted the Chicago Bulls...
...Another, subtler problem can be the difference between what are known as surrogate outcomes and patient outcomes. A new drug or treatment may reliably lower cholesterol, say, or reduce the size of a tumor - these are surrogate outcomes - and the drug-maker would call that a success. But the ultimate goal of treatment isn't simply to give you lab results you can boast about, it's to make you feel better and live longer; those are the patient outcomes. Sometimes though, good surrogate outcomes don't lead to good patient outcomes. Hormone replacement therapy, for example, raises good cholesterol...
...nearly half of Harvard’s $3.5 billion annual operating budget comes in the form of compensation costs, Longbrake said, “it is increasingly likely that Harvard, like many of our peer institutions and foundations across the country, will have to consider further changes to the size of its workforce in order to adjust to the new fiscal reality...