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...shift from high-cost forms of entertainment to low." Parents may cancel a Christmas ski trip that would cost about $40 per hour, the logic goes, and instead spring for Nintendo's Wii Fit so the family can do some virtual skiing through the long, cold winter at a cost of $1 per hour...
...course, the highly unusual free loan arrangement leaves open the possibility that Beckham is simply going to Milan to keep in shape through the European winter by training with a top club, and keeping his England prospects alive. (He spent last year's MLS off-season training with England's Arsenal.) But Milan is hyping the arrival of its new recruit, and suggests it could buy out the remainder of Beckham's contract with L.A. The chance of that happening, however, if highly improbable, given the money required and Beckham's own declining play. Galaxy coach Bruce Arena opposes even...
...this winter, Reynolds may not be so willing to spend $400 to take his family to a couple of 76ers basketball games, as he did a year ago. After all, some of his clients have connections to the flailing real estate industry, so he anticipates a dip in his business. And he's got three boys, ages 17, 14 and 11, so scary college-tuition bills loom. "In general, we're not spending as much on that discretionary stuff," Reynolds says. "So no, I probably...
...lessons about patience, loyalty, and commitment, the author essentially rewrote Old Yeller. Not so much in its plot or content, but rather in effect-it was a dog book that brought many a grown man to sad, secret tears. (Guys, better get those kleenex out again for this winter's film adaptation.) With The Longest Trip Home, Grogan offers another memoir, this one of his non-dog life: he recalls his childhood in suburban Detroit, growing up in a devout Catholic family; his early years in love; and the agonizing decline of his father's health...
...specter of uninterred corpses has powerful evocations in Britain, where a strike by gravediggers in the 1978 "Winter of Discontent" left mortuaries struggling to cope. As the current delays only affect a percentage of welfare recipients, it is unlikely that this year will see a problem anywhere close to the scale of the 1978 crisis (which forced health officials to consider mass burials at sea). But Britain's undertakers have offered a corporeal reminder of how financial crises can infringe in intimate ways. "We are the forth richest country in the world," MP Kawczynski says. "The idea that you would...