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...range of raw materials, notably copper, which has driven prices dramatically higher in recent months. But ubiquitous weakness in global demand is now taking a toll. The Reuters-Jeffries CRB commodity index fell 2.25% during the day. Gold prices dipped slightly, down $11 per ounce, but stocks of precious-metals companies were hammered, declining more than 7% on average...
.../Fantasy: "My precious" (Lord of the Rings); Runner-Up: "You're gonna need a bigger boat" (Jaws...
...Precious (Lee Daniels; in theaters 11/6) At 16, Precious (Gabourey Sidibe) is fat, illiterate and pregnant after being raped by her father. Her reclamation is a miracle, and so is this U.S. indie drama--the highest form of feel-good movie...
Sure, buying a green product like one of those long-life compact fluorescent bulbs means giving up the understated softness of a regular incandescent. But you also gain something precious when you buy a compact fluorescent: status. When your friends see the bulb screwed into the socket of your lamp, many of them will think you're a better, more socially conscious person (which you may well be). And as the aphorist Publilius Syrus wrote a couple thousand years ago, "A good reputation is more valuable than money...
...comment on others' lives, yet we don't know much about yours. How do you react when the gossip includes you? - Patrick Michaels, New York City I don't take myself very seriously. I'm not Zac Efron, obviously. There's not a precious image that I'm trying to protect. I can be a bitch. I can go out and get photographed drunk. I can even get arrested. I don't think people will think any differently of me. (See pictures of Perez Hilton...