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...Born a few months apart in 1908, Fingleton and Bradman were team-mates but never friends. On their first meeting, they had a Pride and Prejudice moment that set the tone of their relationship. Fingleton mispronounced the word tetanus, and Bradman corrected him with what Fingleton, a highly sensitive man except, it seems, where the feelings of others were concerned, perceived as scorn...
...When word got out that a filling station in the Atlanta suburb of Buckhead had received a fresh supply of regular unleaded, the line began forming well before dawn. Thanks to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which crippled Gulf Coast refineries, drivers in the Southeast are creeping around town with their gas gauges on empty, searching for a pump that isn't dry. And while oil companies said supply would improve by Columbus Day, the long lines aren't the only thing giving us déjà vu. We've got an unpopular President in the White House, trouble with Iran...
...like lime or ginger and spice things up by adding copious amounts of jalapeno pepper. Canners are also experimenting with mixing subject and medium - pickled grapes anyone? Food writer Eugenia Bone, author of the upcoming cookbook Urban Preservation, even cans her own tuna, which she describes as "sumptuous," a word that can rarely be used to describe the chunk-white albacore you find on supermarket shelves...
...Rebrand the Bill The word bailout is a deal killer. "People feel the breaks are being given to financial institutions and not to the consumer," says Slovic. He recommends calling it a Consumer Protection Act. It may be too late for this change to have much impact, but any change in language that acknowledges real people would be an improvement...
...Helena, farther north in the state, Dave Smith, who owns a business that makes electronic musical instruments, says, "I just want them to come up with something that's more reasonable and more fair and that still might help. Unfair would be the biggest one-word comment. No one is going to help me if I have problems with my company. Especially considering the huge amounts of money these companies were paying themselves, it's really obscene." Another St. Helena resident, Paul Tuttle, a registered Republican, peppered his Representative, Democrat Mike Thompson, with anti-bailout e-mail. "I think...