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...sparked by rising oil prices. U.S. consumer spending is likely to slow markedly if oil prices just stay at about $60 a barrel. This is true for several reasons. First, U.S. households have precious little flexibility in their budgets. They have drawn their personal average savings rate down to zero?far below the 9.5% average during the two oil shocks of the 1970s and the 7% rate during the shock just prior to the Gulf War in 1991. Today, the only backstop for most consumers is the transitory wealth created by America's increasingly precarious housing bubble...
...allows you to play news editor and zero in on the information you really need, even as you expand the number of sites you sample. You can subscribe to just the parts of the Seattle Times, for example, that cover biotech and the Mariners. Or you can go even deeper: instead of looking through all the new apartment-rental ads on classifieds site Craigslist, say, you can enter your price range and your preferred neighborhoods, and save that search result as an RSS feed. The appropriate listings pop up in your newsreader every day, just as if you'd hired...
...your Web browser. Almost every major newspaper and news website has an RSS feed these days. (The Los Angeles Times is probably one of the most significant exceptions, and that's because it's working on advertising-driven newsreader software.) RSS allows you to play news editor and zero in on the information you really need, even as you expand the number of sites you sample. You can subscribe to just the parts of the Seattle Times, for example, that cover biotech and the Mariners baseball team. Or you can go even deeper: instead of looking through...
...record, Ellis pleads allergies, but you can see why one would ask. He became famous in 1985, at the tender age of 21, for his novel Less Than Zero, a not-very-tender account of the empty-eyed, drug-drenched L.A. teen-party scene, and along the way he acquired a reputation as a pretty hard-partying hombre himself. In 1991 he became notorious all over again for American Psycho, a semipornographic, ultraviolent best seller about an investment banker turned serial killer, which he successfully--and with some validity--passed off as an indictment of 1980s Manhattan greedhead culture...
...Hilburg house, no steps have been taken to leave. Like so many Gaza residents, they are counting on denial and faith to save their community at the zero hour. Bryna folds her hands in her lap and says, "The simple fact is, I don't want to go. It's my home of 26 years. My roots are here. Netzer Hazani has what I need and want. We built it up. We made a beautiful place, beautiful in spirit." So the Hilburgs say they will do anything peaceable and lawful that will stop the clock, but nothing more. They obeyed...