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...just as much as tap dancing and ballet are," Shim said...
Home-equity loans are available at fixed or variable interest rates. Householders can borrow a lump sum or set up a revolving line of credit that they can tap into as they please; amounts repaid can be borrowed again. Though such loans were once used for home expansions and remodelings, today's householders are borrowing for all sorts of purposes. Among them...
...human espionage in Berlin." Peter Sichel, a CIA station chief, noted that the more information the spies produced, the more their bosses wanted. "Demand just kept growing," Sichel said. One of the early CIA exploits was Operation Gold, an ingenious tunnel under East Berlin that was used to tap Soviet telephone lines. Unknown to the CIA at the time, however, George Blake, a Russian mole in the British secret service, revealed plans for the tunnel to Moscow Center even before it was built. Blithely, the Soviets waited a year to fill it in, to help protect Blake's identity...
...RAIDERS ?6.5 over Bears: Slim swerves from his regular Steelers pick (too easy) to tap the Raiders as one of his Big Three ? a reward for de-horning the Vikes last week. Just win by a touchdown, baby...
Rowling insists that she never consciously set out to write for children, but that working on Harry Potter taught her how easily she could tap into her childhood memories. "I really can, with no difficulty at all, think myself back to 11 years old [Harry's age when the series opens]. You're very powerless, and kids have this whole underworld that to adults is always going to be impenetrable." That's a good description of the social setup she portrays at Hogwarts, where the students have stretches of time with little or no adult supervision. Rowling believes young people...