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...recent subprime mortgage crisis has closed the doors to American homes and hedge funds alike. The most commonly cited explanation for this is that an unforeseeable collapse in home prices forced homeowners to refinance their adjustable-rate mortgages at unrealistic rates, resulting in payment delinquency and outright default...
Most writers said the deal addressed their major concern: payment for work distributed on the Web and through cell phones, among other new media. Several said the strike was necessary to avoid missing out on the new revenue stream, a sacrifice they feel they made 20 years ago by settling for a small share of sales of DVDs, when that was a nascent format. "The guild really botched DVDs in the '80s," says one children's TV writer. "They were not gonna make the same mistake with the Internet. It comes down to not being screwed...
...tentative three-year WGA deal builds upon gains obtained by the Directors Guild of America in its negotiations with studios last month. Like the directors, writers will receive a fixed residual payment of $1,200 a year for one-hour shows streamed online in the first two years of the new contract. In the third year of the deal, however, they will get something directors didn't, residuals equal to 2% of the revenue received by the program's distributor. The agreement also doubles the residual rate for movies and TV shows sold online and secures the union's jurisdiction...
...heck with creating new life-forms. Venter should channel his energies into constructing a chromosome for extant humans that would help us store critical life-enhancing information--like anniversaries, passwords, account balances and payment-due dates. That would truly benefit mankind...
...martyrdom is admirable, even preferable, in a saint, but it is terrible in a relationship in which generosity demands payment in guilt. And a celebration that once featured bachelors pulling women's names out of an urn like a door prize and a belief that the first person you spotted on the morning of Feb. 14 would be your mate for life doesn't say much for romance. (Some maids were taught that if they awoke and saw a blackbird, they would marry a clergyman; a bluebird meant a poor man; a robin meant a sailor.) Over the years, Valentine...