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...Carol Sklenicka's judicious, thorough and sometimes harrowing biography, Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life (Scribner; 578 pages), we learn just how well Carver knew the worlds he wrote about. He grew up mostly in blue collar Yakima, Wash., where his father worked in a sawmill, changed jobs frequently and drank heavily, patterns he passed on to his son. Carver was barely 18 when he married 16-year-old Maryann Burk, but he had already dedicated himself to life as a writer...
...more and more fan favorites are figuring out how to parlay their 15 seconds of fame into cash. Chief among them: Charlie Schmidt, who has managed to make some $20,000 from his truly ridiculous Keyboard Cat video. The graphic designer in Spokane, Wash., digitized old VHS tapes of his cat, Fatso, "playing" a keyboard, a low-tech feat achieved by manipulating the cat's paws from underneath Fatso's shirt. Since the Keyboard Cat video went viral in February, the original has had nearly 3.8 million viewings, with millions more for the remixes. (See videos that have cashed...
Rosenthal added that UHS is trying to reduce swine flu risk by encouraging students, faculty, and staff to “continue to wash their hands frequently” and to follow the instructions on the UHS Web site...
...What the plot of New Moon reveals is that Edward and his vampire family are not the only residents of foggy Forks, Wash., to have secrets. Jacob and his Quileute Indian friends, as readers will already know, have a monstrous side as well; when there's a vampire in the area, they transform into werewolves to fight them. And when the wolves appear - ginormous, growling, leaping and lunging predator-protectors - the movie springs to life. The scene in which they chase the vengeful vampire Victoria through the deep woods is vivid and furious, a bracing break from the long stretches...
...more attractive to pension funds and other nonprofit (i.e., tax-free) investors. And that new demand is driving down the yields on traditional muni bonds because there are relatively fewer of them issued. BABs, unlike traditional munis, are taxable. For most individual investors, the interest-rate difference is a wash - a high net worth investor would owe the extra yield they get from the BAB back in taxes, so they'd wind up with roughly the same after-tax yield as if they had bought a lower-yielding tax-free muni...