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...cash and time. For all their cheesiness, picture-postcard walks along the river can be a good time to talk and figure out the real scoop on your date. Be careful though, with a bad date this excess one-on-one time can turn painful. But when the spark fizzles, you can always ditch and run home on a moment’s notice...
...passers-by stared quizzically, Jonathan Lefkowitz of Goshen, N.Y., sat inside a metal cage on the sidewalk outside Harvard Yard, with a pad of paper resting on his lap and a spark of anger in his eyes. A sign on the cage announced he would remain silent for 100 hours...
...fifth inning, a throwing error by Crimson third baseman Nick Carter and a fly ball that was dropped by senior right fielder Jeff Bridich helped spark a three-run Brown rally...
...function for 23 hours a day at best." One night, when Hartnett and a few friends attempted to engage in some illicit activity involving tobacco of a green hue, he desperately tried to light up with a newly-purchased Store 23 lighter. "Despite our best efforts it would just spark and spark but give no chronic flame!" Hartnett laments. Apparently, the lighter conked out at approximately the same time that Store 24 transforms into Store 23. The next day the lighter functioned perfectly. "Coincidence? We think not," say Willison and Hartnett...
...down despite the fact that Asian and European economies have begun to rebound. Maintaining the high deficit is dangerous because that means a huge debt, and if our creditors lose confidence in the U.S. economy and begin selling dollars, which drives down the value of the currency, that could spark a serious inflation threat." The best way to keep America's creditors sweet on the dollar is to make their returns more attractive by raising domestic interest rates...