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There are plenty of caveats attached: without other nutrients, the size and health of CO2-enriched plants can be compromised, and in some cases noxious weeds like poison ivy do better than the greenery you might prefer. But perhaps the biggest question of all is how closely such artificial situations translate in the real world. (Watch "Battle of the Endangered Species: Bats v. Trees...
...Lawrence McDonald, a former Lehman Brothers bond trader, remembers, he asked an intern what he was doing during the winter break at the now bankrupt investment bank. The intern, who was a junior in college, said he was trading derivatives for the firm. Surprised, McDonald asked the intern the size of his pad - Wall Street-speak for how much of the firm's money he was able to trade - figuring it couldn't be much. The intern's response: $150 million...
Republican media consultant Fred Davis III has a vision for the future of American politics, one in which building-size rats roam the landscape, babies in strollers wear enormous brown toupees, and demon sheep with red robotic eyes feed on rolling green hills. He envisions a democratic process driven by viral oddities and visual tricks, campaign ads so weird that no one can look away...
...time he entered high school, Brady was six-foot-five, and his size put an abrupt end to his jumping career...
...Baltimore session, Congressman Jeb Hensarling of Texas launched a diatribe on the budget, including the fabulous claim that the Obama Administration was now running monthly deficits the size of annual Republican deficits in the past. For once, the President flashed anger in response - he interrupted Hensarling and said, "I'm sure there's a question in there somewhere." And then, calmly, he proceeded to take apart Hensarling's nonsense. (See pictures of Barack Obama's personal touches to the Oval Office...