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...bipartisanship, even in this buyer?s market, is cheap at an extra $20 billion. That?s how much Bush, who publicly entered the fast-gathering stimulus-package debate Wednesday for the first time with a bid of "$60-$75 billion," topped Tom Daschle?s whispered $50 billion earlier offer. That?s on top of the $55 billion already dashed off to rebuilders and the airline bailout. So what's to worry about? Greenspan and Rubin say any more than $100 billion total (roughly 1 percent of GDP), and you?re begging for rising interest rates now and rampant inflation later...
...down, al-Qaeda foot soldiers make money through jobs or engaging in petty crime. When Mohamed Atta, believed to have been one of the hijackers, was in Hamburg, German prosecutors say, he eked out a living selling used cars. Many of the suspects lived in run-down neighborhoods and cheap hotels. In all, experts say, the Sept. 11 attacks probably cost the hijackers only about...
...says Tanenhaus. “We have a couple sticking out of the lawn in the backyard.” Tanenhaus also mentions a Dali painting with eyes on a plate, which may or may not have been formative. “It’s kind of a cheap shot,” she says. “If you have a limb where it’s not supposed to be, it’s going to seem weird.” Touche...
Huffman Aviation, tucked on Florida's Gulf Coast between Tampa and Fort Myers, is just such a place. The weather is good. Gas and airplane rentals are cheap--you can fly a Cessna 150 single-engine plane for $55 an hour, 40% less than what you might pay in a big city. The airport cafe is open, serving hot, cheap food with aviation nicknames like "Emergency Descent," a bacon cheeseburger...
...city was a cemetery in waiting: streetlights and phone poles plastered with portraits of the missing where normally the ads for lost pets or cheap painters would be. Outside the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, the families afloat on hope and dread waited on line for the chance to fill out the seven-page form asking about their loved ones' tattoos and earlobes and shoe size and whether their fingers were tobacco stained. Maybe they are in a hospital, confused but safe. "I'm looking for my mother," says Brian Daniels. "Her name is on the website that...