Current crazy 5-day market activity:


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National Debt as of 2005

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Where did all that debt actually stem from…? Good one, GOP.

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V Magazine’s “Size Issue” won’t be published until next week but it is already dividing opinion. It includes a photo shoot with heavier, semi-clad models proud to flaunt their curves. The debate over plus-size models enflamed last year when Mark Fast, the fashion designer, decided to use size 14 models at London Fashion Week. At the same time, the popularity of Crystal Renn, the size 14 model, suggested that curvier models were becoming more acceptable.

Do you think the fashion world should use more plus-size models? Is it a welcome tangent to the size-zero debate? Or perhaps you think this photo shoot is just a publicity stunt? Which would you rather look at?
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Online gaming offers you a new life: new friends, new face, new clothes, new home, new everything. It sounds like a perfect spot for a someone hiding from the law. But not quite perfect. Two weeks ago, an Indiana sheriff’s deputy tracked down a fugitive by first locating him in the online game World of Warcraft, the Kokomo Perspective reports.

The sheriff’s department of Howard County had been searching for Alfred Hightower for two years without any luck, even with the help of U.S. marshals under Operation Falcon. From what Deputy Matt Roberson could piece together, he had left the country.

But he was still online.

Still, Roberson started asking around, and through a number of sources he figured out that Hightower, who was wanted on drug charges, was playing an online game – “some witches and warlocks game,” he was told. Roberson knew what he was hearing.

“None of that information was sound enough to pursue on its own, but putting everything we had together gave me enough evidence to send a subpoena to Blizzard Entertainment,” Roberson told the Kokomo Perspective. “I knew exactly what he was playing – World of Warcraft. I used to play it. It’s one of the largest online games in the world.”

But Roberson was in Indiana, Blizzard was in California and Hightower was in Canada. Roberson didn’t expect much back because of the limits of his jurisdiction, but Blizzard responded in spades. It gave Roberson Hightower’s billing address, his IP address, his account information, even his online name: Rastalynn, a level 80 shaman. Roberson plugged the IP address into Google Earth, zeroed in within 3 yards and bagged his man.

Sheriff Marty Talbert says this was the first time in his seven years on the job that a fugitive was tracked down in Canada.
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