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...episodes of muscle." If this is a novel in which people think and talk, it's a frisky one all the same. "I'm not terribly up on the actual sex lives of these artists," Updike admits, "except that they were sexy and they suffered from a lot of spare time." And as he does with many things, he manages to make the most of that...
...Martin Bell, black male, senior in Winthrop House, about 6’0, thin build, from Brooklyn, New York, spends spare time playing Smash Brothers and watching...
...seven years later, Detroit native Eminem, née Marshall Mathers III, is outselling artists like Nelly and Jay-Z by millions of records—and polishing five Grammy statuettes in his spare time. Tomorrow’s opening of 8 Mile, the fictionalized biopic of the rapper’s early career, signifies the next step of his campaign for cultural relevance and cross-media domination...
Many of the acknowledged cases of fraud concerned spare parts for NASA airplanes, which could have led to safety problems if they had not been caught. Moreover, such problems erode the public’s trust in a part of the government that has overseen some of the most inspirational feats of engineering and triumphs of science in the past half century. Americans are losing their sense of wonder about outer space, which bodes poorly for NASA and the future of American space exploration...
...Accounting Reform Act allowed for transition funding for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to come from unused SEC funds. However, with the president and Congress continuing to argue over budget priorities, the SEC is not likely to have any funds to spare. “The worst case scenario is that [the accounting board] or we will have to slow down if we find the budget is unresolved by early next year,” the agency has said. Without a budget decision from Capital Hill, all this summer’s reform rhetoric will be in vain...