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...gathered. "It looks very appealing to the eye," says Bhagwat Pulsandar, 25, a Pune law student. "Possessing a car is a status symbol," says Rajib Das, 30, a shopkeeper in Sukantonagar, West Bengal, who says he wants to be the first in his village to own a Nano. "Who wouldn't want to rise in life?" (See pictures of muscle cars...
...learning that a lot of young adults don't know as much about the basic facts and the birds and the bees as most of us think they do," she says. "If you're 24, the last time you had sex ed was probably in the 10th grade. You wouldn't have been taught about some of the newer methods of birth control like the ring or IUDs. There's a large amount of simple misinformation or ignorance...
...some evidence is persuasive - at dawn on the summer solstice, for example, the center of the Stonehenge ring, two nearby stones (The Slaughter and Heel Stones) and the sun all seem to align. Still, critics of Hawkins' theory say he gives the ancient builders too much credit, arguing they wouldn't have had the sophistication or precision necessary to predict all the astrological events Hawkins' ascribes to his Stonehenge calendar. And plus this is England after all - wet, overcast England. The climate may have prevented the ancient people of Stonehenge from even seeing the sky with regularity...
...maybe not. "That doesn't leave room for changes in character. I'm quite different with my wife than [I was with] my first wife," Gilbert says. "My first wife wouldn't be able to predict very well what my current wife would experience...
...bonuses were retention payments promised early last year, when it was clear that London-based AIG FP was in trouble but not yet apparent that its parent company wouldn't survive without $170 billion (and counting) in taxpayer aid. Without that aid, AIG would have gone bankrupt in September and the bonus promises would have been torn up. AIG was not allowed to go bankrupt because Lehman Brothers had just failed and the people at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve worried (with reason) that another failure - in particular, the failure of a firm that wrote default insurance...