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...nose-diving NASDAQ forecasting a recession? No one knows. But the Federal Reserve will raise short-term interest rates this week, possibly by a hefty 0.5 percentage point. I'm not suggesting anyone hit the panic button. But a steady rise in interest rates is how good times often end. Given that the Fed has been boosting rates since last June--mortgages are the costliest in five years--why not use today's prosperity to pay off debt...
Census-mania has brought a spirit of philanthropy to Detroit, however. Local McDonalds owners gave unlimited, free meals to almost 10,000 homeless citizens for filling out their censuses and receiving a yellow button reading, "I'm important. I've been counted...
...that the way you break the news of your Ec grade to your parents, your roommates, your siblings and your drinking buddies (or whether you do) is not the same. But in a world where all is judged in snapshots--where consistency is not valued except as a "next" button--fitting the story together takes some work...
...Virtual Business class, where all the students wore white button-down shirts, I was greeted at the door by an "executive assistant" who asked me to sign her guest book. Her CEO, "Ms. Moronta," handed me her business card and led me through a PowerPoint demonstration of her virtual DVD business. Clocks showed the times in New York City, Tokyo, Bakersfield, Calif., and Nuremberg, Germany. I have never been so frightened in my life...
...this simple, and unfortunately the Pocket PC turns out to be no exception. Microsoft's idea of making the system more intuitive seems to be limited to moving the "Start" menu from the lower-left corner of the screen to the upper left and adding an almost invisible button marked OK in the top right, which you need to tap all the time but invariably forget. Too often I was more conscious of operating the system than concentrating on the task at hand...