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High Pump Prices Rattle Drivers and Businesses
Published: February 28, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — High fuel prices are putting the squeeze on drivers' wallets just as they are starting to feel better about the economy. They're also forcing tough choices on small-business owners who are loathe to charge more for fear of losing cost-conscious customers. More

Nobutoshi Kihara, Dies at 84

“Anyone can find out the common sense things, and my role is not to teach common sense,” he said in a 1994 oral history for the Center for the History of Electrical Engineering “My message has always been to break through what is common sense and common knowledge and make the impossible possible.” More

Oscar

I skipped the Oscars last night, keeping half an eye on the NYT blog feed and head count. I had not seen True Grit or The Fighter, or Toy Story 3 for that matter, but had a pretty solid sense of the major Oscars (19 out of 24 on the last NYT ballot I filled out at the NY Times, and had I been more consistent, I would have had one more... Missed Film Editing, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Sound Mixing, Short Film, Animated -- which is the one I had marked right previously) The Academy always falls for a well-done speech impediment, and if it's got good hats, even better. CW was pretty good this year, plus a few lucky guesses on the minor Oscars.

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The amount of oil remaining is infinite.

Social Security is broke.

Unions are evil, and mostly female teacher's unions are worse.