Word: traded
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...which participants select real pros for their make-believe teams and potentially take home some dough if those players perform. But even in this harshest of realities, fantasy is doing just fine. There are 30 million fantasy players in the U.S. and Canada, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, a 54% increase from two years ago. (See real prizes you can win playing fantasy sports...
What's more, for $15, a lawyer on FantasyDispute.com or SportsJudge.com will settle the inevitable arguments that arise in fantasy leagues, like accusations of collusion. Wait - just because I have no chance to win my league, I can't trade my Peyton Manning to my wife, who has a shot at a $1,000 prize, for her Sage Rosenfels? (See sports pictures taken by Walter Iooss...
...prices - especially for popular foreign makes - have climbed more than 10% in the past year. Recession-scarred consumers are holding on to vehicles longer, and the clunkers program is destroying a fair number of older models. Dealers, in turn, are paying more for units at auctions and at trade-in time, and they're not shy about passing their costs on to you. "It may get to the point where used cars are so expensive that it may be worth buying a new car for a few thousand dollars more, and the market will be back...
...requires mining companies to restore exhausted mines to their former natural state. Electric utilities also claim that discoveries in coal gasification (the production of synthetic natural gas from coal) and carbon sequestration will dramatically reduce resultant greenhouse- gas emissions, rendering coal an ideal fuel for a post-cap-and-trade future...
...never invited him to a National Security Council meeting, Ridge thinks future Homeland Security chiefs should be asked occasionally to attend. He also says Homeland Security leaders need to be more careful than he was about allowing political language into their public statements. (Watch TIME's video "Homeland Security Trade Show...