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...financial alchemists at Macquarie Group, Australia's biggest investment bank, never managed to turn lead into gold, but they hit on the next best thing: turning asphalt into cash. In May, the bank's shareholders welcomed a $1.3 billion profit, thanks largely to a new way of looking at highways, airports and power stations...
...Nazis arrive. Here, as in Out Stealing Horses, the war is remarkable not only for its general devastation but also for the way it detonates private passions: Jesper's for his resistance work, and the narrator's for Jesper's companionship and safety. This has the potential to turn out bleak. But the thing that sticks is the adoring trust sister places in brother, whether she's a child sneaking out with him via rooftop at night ("I'm not scared, and I just do what he does, it is not difficult when we do it in time with each...
...polls as recently as mid-September were showing Lunsford running 13 or more points behind McConnell, several since then suggest the race is a dead heat, and the national Democratic Party has begun pouring TV money into a state it had all but written off. Lunsford traces the sharp turn in his fortunes to a single moment: "When they passed a bailout for Wall Street, it seems people all of a sudden got really focused...
Fighting back, Lunsford argues that pork projects don't make up for the economic policies McConnell has shepherded through the Senate. "Kentuckians don't have a chance to vote out George Bush," he says, "but they do have a chance to turn out his henchman." Election Day will determine whether voters are angry enough to do just that...
With Fringe (from Lost's creator, J.J. Abrams), sci-fi has come full circle back to Frankenstein: we have gained too much power over life and made the body into a mere machine. Plots turn on how bodies can be used as recording devices: corpses are psychically "interrogated"; people's memories are stolen by a villain jamming wires up their noses; a murder victim's optic nerve is hooked up to a TV screen to show the last thing she saw before she died. The humans involved have no more volition than a hard drive being reformatted in the shop...