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...Expected increase in home heating bills in the U.S. this winter over last year...
Squabbling over money is hardly the best way to enter the winter holidays, but it is a fitting way for the European Union to mark the end of a genuinely bad year. As government leaders gather this week in Brussels for a bruising negotiating marathon over the budget for 2007 to 2013, they are looking into a void. "There is no constitution, no economic reform, and it looks like there is going to be no budget agreed," says Denis MacShane, Britain's Europe Minister until last May. "It is probably the unhappiest year in European construction since...
...Then again, Joyce was no Heidi Klum. O.K., Project Runway, Klum's Bravo reality show about fashion designers, is not a masterwork of Western civilization. But it pulls off a rare feat: it makes the creative process entertaining. In Season 1 last winter, a cast of wannabe Vera Wangs squared off in design challenges that included sewing outfits from grocery-store items (the best entries used a lawn chair and cornhusks). In Season 2 (Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), one designer concocts a dress so audacious it may fall apart on the runway: it's held together by magnets. Other television...
...find it mildly annoying whenever I go home for winter break and someone says to me, “How’d your exams go?” Then they pause for dramatic effect, and follow up with, “Oh, I forgot—you don’t have them ’til after Christmas.” It’s a comment that’s supposed to make me curse Harvard’s silliness in calling majors “concentrations” and having its exams after the holidays instead...
...According to Beshears, a 48-year-old IT project manager from the Orlando suburb of Winter Garden, the incident began shortly before the last passengers had taken their seats. Alpizar ran up the aisle, barreling into them. "He had a bag clutched to his chest and his head looked as if his left cheek was resting on the bag," Beshears says. "There were a couple of passengers trying to get back into Coach. There were one or two more passengers trying to take their seats in Coach. He pushed them almost into First Class...