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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York, Dallas, Madrid and Rome. Then, with the help of black-market money changers in Colombia, the dollars were converted into pesos and deposited into the traffickers' Colombian accounts. But much to the dismay of the brokerage firm's clients, their gains turned out to be purely short term...
...Year's Day of 1941, the Depression still lingered, and the threat from Hitler was growing. Roosevelt went to his second-floor White House study to draft the address that would launch his unprecedented third term. There was a long silence, uncomfortably long, as his speechwriters waited for him to speak. Then he leaned forward and began dictating...
...bodies fall together. Einstein found that his equations didn't have a solution that described a universe that was unchanging in time. Rather than give up a static and everlasting universe, which he and most other people believed in at that time, he fudged the equations by adding a term called the cosmological constant, which warped space-time the other way so that bodies move apart. The repulsive effect of the cosmological constant would balance the attractive effect of matter and allow for a universe that lasts for all time...
...development that could give new meaning to the term "experiential learning," a number of American universities are under investigation for misuse of heroin, cocaine, LSD and marijuana provided for research studies. According to the Associated Press, the Drug Enforcement Administration is looking into the research programs of at least a dozen of the 535 universities currently authorized to use the whole spectrum of illegal substances in controlled laboratory tests. Federal officials say the government, which provides $250 million for universities to buy the drugs, doesn't do much to find out what's happening inside the research facilities. Whether this...
...annualized basis. "This is no different than taking a cash advance on your credit card," says Jean A. Fox of the Consumer Federation of America. "It's just more expensive." Anyone in a cash crunch would do better to seek a credit counselor, take out a long-term loan or make arrangements with a creditor to stretch out payments...