Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...million dollar exemption is good enough for most of us," Simon joked...
Richman's researchers have re-created the priestly garments and tools that will be needed in the "Third Temple": a silver mizrak to collect blood from sacrificial animals, even a million-dollar menorah. And Sheik Hassan Barghouti is preparing--in a row of tiny classrooms built into the ancient north wall of the compound. As principal of al-Aqsa School, Barghouti drills 140 young Koranic scholars in the literal divinity of the stones from which their schoolroom is built. "This Jewish temple is a pure lie," says Barghouti. "It's the duty of every Muslim to die to defend...
...everybody likes the idea of someone else cashing in on their free computing cycles. "If somebody's making a dollar off my machine," notes David McNett, president of Distributed.net "I'd damn well want to be compensated for it." To sweeten the deal, many community computing start-ups let participants donate a portion of their computational cycles to pet biomedical charities. People who sign up with the San Diego-based firm Entropia, for instance, can allot part of their computer's time to the FightAIDS@home project, which uses distributed computing to help Arthur Olson's lab at the Scripps...
...hear coach Ben Dean, a trained psychologist, talk about the virtues of becoming a coach. "Coaching is a train that's leaving the station with or without us," he said. "It lets us stay involved in helping good people make transformative change but thankfully takes the health-care dollar out of the picture...
...fronts converged at last week's Country Music Association Awards, where the contemporary DIXIE CHICKS took home four trophies while traditionalists George Strait and Alan Jackson won the Vocal Event category for Murder on Music Row, a duet that condemns country's pop trend with lines like "The almighty dollar and the lust for worldwide fame slowly killed tradition and for that someone should hang." Spooky. Making light of it all is a song called I'd Give My Right Nut to Save Country Music, sung with deadpan earnestness by C.M.A. Single of the Year winner LEE ANN WOMACK...