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...vast majority of investors today sitting, forlorn, on their devalued shares. That does not prevent the Internet from buzzing with Nostradamus' apparent predictions of a divided election and the rise of "the village idiot" to the U.S. presidency - though a search of his prolific writings turns up no such text. And a retrospective reading of newspaper horoscopes could be construed to have urged punters to buy Amazon at the equivalent of about $1.50 a share in June 1996 and to sell it at more than $80 last February (just before it sank to its current level of about...
...last study--a group of 15 nondenominationalists meeting under a pastor's auspices at the RV park--the text was Matthew 12, in which Jesus takes on the Pharisees. "Brother Jim," says Holder, "was thumbing back and forth through the Bible, finding other references that related to the text. All of us, even the pastor, were pretty amazed...
...That's the bad news; the good news is that the days of teachers' having to navigate through error-strewn, out-of-date texts--and of kids' having to lug 30-lb. book bags--are almost over. The major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from...
...BLAKE. [I don't!] But quality that high is rare. We take a book out of the library and read the marginalia, often surly and stupid, of anonymous strangers. THANKS A HEAP! The fun, though, is to respond to them, by which we perpetuate the argument and extend the text. BACK TO HIS THESIS, AT LAST? [you're welcome...
What I am writing at this moment may be the marginalia to feelings of loss and pain that do not appear in the sentence. The feelings of loss and pain may constitute the text of my life for which all sentences, written or spoken, create a defense or rebuke...