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...about an inch above a painted-on fretboard. A guitar in name only, the steel guitar is played seated, on one's lap or on detachable legs, with the hands resting on top. The right hand picks the strings, while the left holds a stainless steel bar that you slide up and down the neck to change the pitch. But the lap steel was limited; since the instrument is fretted with a straight bar, it lacks the flexibility that fingers provide on the neck of a normal guitar. In order to be able to play comfortably in a wide range...
...only thing that might rouse Greenspan now is - you guessed it - Florida. If the current election madness lasts long enough to put the financial markets in a serious slide, there's a possibility Greenspan will intervene with a rate cut that would put worriers in a sunnier mood. He did it in the fall of 1998, when the Asian crisis-cum-Long Term Capital fiasco was threatening to ruin his boom, and he'll be tempted to do it again if Al Gore and George W. Bush's lawyers start to do the same...
...only thing that might rouse Greenspan now is - you guessed it - Florida. If the current election madness lasts long enough to put the financial markets in a serious slide, there's a possibility Greenspan will intervene with a rate cut that would put worriers in a sunnier mood. He did it in the fall of 1998, when the Asian crisis-cum-Long Term Capital fiasco was threatening to ruin his boom, and he'll be tempted to do it again if Al Gore and George W. Bush's lawyers start to do the same...
...three Crimson seniors--captain Ryan Kelly, Matt Edwards, and Wells Mangrum--will have to deal with the disappointment of watching the team's initially promising season end in a six-game slide...
...NTSB also found problems with the inflatable plastic slides designed to sweep survivors out of a plane: 37% of the time they did not deploy correctly. Some passengers were momentarily unable to get out of Flight 006 when a slide deployed and knocked them sideways. "It seemed like forever before we got untangled and away from the unbearable heat," says Diaz...