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Were you awake for the Leonid meteor shower this morning? Well, we were! At around 3 a.m., FlyBy dispatched a correspondent to witness what we'd heard would be "one of the biggest meteor shower events of our lifetimes." Find out what we saw, after the jump...
Upon arriving, we decided to join a group camped out in the middle of the Quad lawn. Jeremy S. Cushman '12, a friendly physics concentrator, became our unofficial astronomy expert. After 20 minutes passed with zero meteor sightings, we started to worry that we were looking for the wrong thing. But Cushman (who had seen two by this point) reassured us. "You'll know," he said. "You'll know you've seen a meteor when you've seen a meteor...
There's not much to add to the first point - that really bad stuff can happen - other than to note that capitalism has just experienced the equivalent of a meteor near miss. But the second and third points demand more explanation. The reason a big federal debt undermines the dollar is that a government with really big debts will be tempted to inflate its way out by printing money to pay creditors. Printing more dollars (the process actually involves the Federal Reserve's purchasing government securities with dollars it conjures out of thin air) reduces the value of existing dollars...
...never about Wichita. There is no cultural or sociological or historical artifact to explain why this place became a magnet for abortion seekers and protesters alike. The reason was George Tiller. He could have happened anywhere, but he happened here, like a meteor strike...
...them the wives and children of the players, shout encouragement as two teams of men of all ages and sizes dressed in bright yellow and red run across the grass pitch on a college campus. Wang Yuyu, a 32-year-old former amateur athlete, cheers as the Tornadoes beat Meteor Garden 3-1. Wang has only missed a few matches in the past six years, and more than anything, he wants to see the league reach its 100th season...