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...these cards average 1 percentage point higher than for nonaffiliated cards, according to Bankrate.com "The interest charges can easily outweigh the benefit," says Greg McBride, an analyst at Bankrate.com If you carry a balance, your first priority should be finding the lowest possible ongoing interest rate (not the teaser rate). If you don't carry a balance, make sure the card has a grace period of at least 25 days, or else you might incur charges anyway...
...makes a dashing Harold Hill), and at a regional theatre on Long Island. And what was the number one theatrical experience of the summer? Well, I’ll be writing a column on that in the fall, so this paragraph was basically a teaser...
...BRAIN TEASER What sordid scandal that took place in Seattle became part of a test question for high school students across Washington? The question on a new standardized test did not concern state history but rather logic. Students were challenged to map the correct route between fictitious towns. Clever 10th-graders who marked the right answer (C) traveled from Mayri, went through Clay and Lee and ended up in Turno. Eureka! Mary K. Letourneau, the elementary school teacher who seduced her 13-year-old former student and later had two children by him, one while she was serving time...
...John Rutter requiem eases along at a people-finding-their-pews pace, and three candles glow calmly in the corner. He kneels in the middle of the room. Ignoring him, the dominatrix works at a table laying out a fan, a piece of possum fur, a prickly teaser made of yarn, a hemp rope, a deerskin flogger and kangaroo-hide cat-o'-nine-tails. Finished with her preparations, the mistress turns, walks over to the submissive and grabs the skin at the back of his neck, as a mama cat might lift a kitten. "Stand for me," she commands...
...panic on the Fourth of July." So spoke the fictional mayor of Amity Island in the hit movie Jaws. Just in time for the summer blockbuster's 25th anniversary, an increase in shark attacks along the nation's southern beaches is bringing back the movie's memorable teaser: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water..." So far this year in Florida, 21 people have been bitten--on track to surpass the 25 attacks in 1999. Recent victims include a surfer in Melbourne, Fla., who last week nearly lost his foot...