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...long rates to be chopped now, something would have to shoot holes in the perception that the economy has hit bottom. More bad news from manufacturers? Nah, that sector is already comatose. But if housing suddenly stumbles, the bond market might rethink all this nascent-recovery stuff and finally give us the lower long-term rates that could make a difference...
...along with Leo Blitz of the University of Maryland, discovered that our home galaxy is not just a simple spiral of stars and gas but rather a complex construction with warped edges and a bar of stars across the middle. Then he began thinking about dark matter, the invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of the universe, and realized that Earth should feel a "wind" of particles as it orbits the galaxy--an idea that dark-matter hunters are now testing...
...creator Larry David, who owned some Peterman clothes. "We used to laugh about it all the time," David says of the prose. "When I knew we had to get Elaine [the character played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus] a new job, I thought the guy who wrote this kooky stuff would be great for her to work...
...knows," says Price. Though Bonaldo doesn't speak English, the language barrier was not a major obstacle. "It was pretty obvious," Price recalls. "Bonaldo would take a piece of wood and draw a line on it, and I knew I had to cut it there." Price also knew his stuff; he had taken four years off from Berea College in Kentucky to build wooden boats in Maine. "I didn't have to learn how to use a saw and a plane," he says. "It was just a matter of teaching me the forms and some new techniques...
...Because, really, if you sit down and think about it, it?s not hard to see we have way too much stuff in our lives. In the strictest sense of the word, we don?t actually need much of anything. Just some bread and water occasionally. Okay, and maybe a really good hairbrush...