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...Another harbinger of prosperity, purchases of durable goods such as cars or computers, shot up by 18.2 percent in quarter three, the best spike in nine-and-a-half years. Overall consumer spending rose at a 5.8 percent annual rate, its fastest increase in five-and-a-half years. And ? better sit down ? business spending on heavy equipment such as trucks or turbines soared at a 24.1 percent rate, the best since the final three months...
However, a spike in tourist visits in the past few years has created a series of logistical problems for University officials as they struggle to both welcome and control this accidental industry...
...turns patients into human pincushions, acupuncture is surprisingly popular these days. America's growing interest in alternative medicine and the quasi endorsement of the Food and Drug Administration (which last year took acupuncture's extra-fine needles off its list of "experimental" medical devices) have helped create a sharp spike in demand for the prickly procedure. About a million Americans spend $500 million a year on acupuncture for complaints ranging from gallstones to migraines to low-back pain; today even dogs and horses are trotting off to see their acupuncturists...
...full-out tete-a-tete. Snipes' nuanced performance--for which he received the Best Actor Award at this year's Venice Film Festival--makes you wish that he would give up playing generic action heroes and return to more serious acting like that of his earlier work with Spike Lee. Charismatic and sincere, he is particularly effective in scenes with Downey (who gives real depth and personality to a character who could have easily come across as a mere caricature...
...never want to wake the master," he said. "If you wake the master, then there's a spike wall, an entire wall of spikes that falls...