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• Facing criticism, European bank boss turns down $1.5M bonus

  Sun Jan 29, 2012
  • Peter17 Wicked burn!

• Gingrich's tough talk on food stamps may backfire

  Tue Jan 24, 2012
  • Perhaps Tarzan should have used a sarcasm font, lol.

• Gingrich's tough talk on food stamps may backfire

  Tue Jan 24, 2012
  • dadoftim Innumeracy on such a level is truly impressive.

• Housing ends year on strong note, but prices still falling

  Fri Jan 20, 2012
  • Just wait until mortgage rates rise into the double digits. Prices will collapse.

• 'Negative double entendre' means no 'cougar' mascot for school

  Fri Jan 20, 2012
  • They should be called the Salamanders.

• Apple vs. the textbook: Can education go paperless?

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • Pragmatic-3918582 I wonder where you are looking then? It took 2 semesters for my ipad to start paying for itself with the money saved on textbooks.

• Railroad companies fight safety rules, with help from GOP and Obama

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • SUKmeBollix Mandating that every home in America have a sprinkler system installed would save more lives in a month than this would save in a decade.

• Railroad companies fight safety rules, with help from GOP and Obama

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • Jakrabt_Oxford MS Sorry but mad is correct. Both you and Dr. Zev seem to be suffering from magical thinking and innumeracy. You don't spend 13 billion to solve a 2 billion(outrageously high estimate) dollar problem.

• Railroad companies fight safety rules, with help from GOP and Obama

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • The cost of compliance is $13 Billion. Over the last decade, compliance with this mandate could have saved 1,000 from injury and 53 from death. If each injury averaged a payout of $1 million (it wouldn't happen) and each death a payout of $10 million, that would total $1.53 Billion.

• More see class conflict between rich and poor

  Wed Jan 11, 2012
  • If you look at the numbers the "rich" have been winning the class war since the working class came to believe they were the middle class