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...much time do you actually spend in front of a computer in a day? Do you blog by yourself? - Nicole Smith, Keego Harbor, Mich. Pretty much from 5 a.m. until 4:15 p.m., I'm in front of my computer. Right now it's pretty much just me. But I am hiring people finally. I'm planning to start a new website in the next six months, so I definitely need help for that. (See the 25 best blogs...
...miles (50 km) from a station served by Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) trains, which have a top speed of 218 m.p.h. (351 km/h). Italy and the Netherlands are also on a track-laying spree. All told, nine E.U. nations operating high-speed rail are set to spend a total of some $200 billion in the next decade to triple their combined track length from 3,100 miles (5,000 km) to 9,300 miles...
...various services will fight for them." He insists that he is not abandoning the fancy hardware and future gizmos that his predecessors and Congress loved. "The things we've cut," he told me, "wouldn't have been in the budget even if we had $50 billion more to spend. They were programs that simply were unnecessary or weren't working...
...raised $4.1 million to support terminally ill patients who want to die at home. Why did you choose that specific cause? Six years ago, my wife of 36 years, my mother and one of my sisters all died of cancer within 18 months of each other. I got to spend time in cancer clinics and spoke with women who weren't being visited and didn't want to be dying in a hospital. They wanted to be dying in their own room, with their pets and their photographs. We need many more at-home nurses, which we can easily...
...people now would like to know how you lived on $70 at that time. When we started, there was no money available for us. I bought a bag of soybeans - 70 pounds for two dollars - and we literally lived on soybeans. We just didn't have any money to spend. Everything was devoted to getting the Christian Broadcasting Network underway. My first year, total income was $8,000 for the whole enterprise. Second year it was $20,000. And now our income is in the $600 to $700 million range. So it does grow...