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RYAN SEACREST bitten by cat-size shark. Text vote for the shark...
...house designed by local architect William Cody in 1964 has a demure flat-roof-and-steel-beam structure that pays homage to the uncomplicated designs of German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But the interiors are straight-up '60s opulent: there are travertine walls and an arena-size master bathroom clad entirely in Carrara marble...
...Obama's path certainly has risks. As conservatives always - rightly - warn, government isn't nearly as efficient as the market in figuring out the most effective new technologies. Spending money on infrastructure may prove inflationary given the current size of the deficit - although $21 billion per year doesn't seem all that much after an Administration that spent $10 billion per month in Iraq. "You can argue that there's a need for short-term deficit spending," says one of Obama's economic advisers, "but in the end, he's going to have to get back to fiscal responsibility." Ultimately...
...press. "The E.U. is so often depicted as its extremes," says Margot Wallstrom, who in 2004 became the E.U.'s first Commissioner of Institutional Relations and Communications. "Either it's painted as being very powerful, and therefore dangerous, or it's depicted as being busy with the size of strawberries, so it's ridiculed." Many in Brussels admit the pro-treaty campaign in Ireland had been complacent, assuming that Ireland's economic miracle after it joined the E.U. would be enough to convince its people that Lisbon was a good thing. "We have not been professional...
...general, Obama has proposed more new spending programs than McCain, but even here the details get tricky. McCain, for example, has a new risk pool, which would help provide health insurance to those with pre-existing conditions, and he wants to continue to grow the size of the Army and Marines. Obama has a big new green-energy fund, a plan for national service and the promise of more money for education. The green-energy fund would be paid for, Obama says, by selling energy producers permits for producing greenhouse gases...