One of my buddies recently suggested that I write a column about an accountant who invested a fortune in a pizzeria. The idea reminded me of my obsession of a few years ago to open up a hot dog stand. My wife headed off that mistake-in-the-making. Read full article > >

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Value Added: Accountant’s love of pizza causes him to toss some dough

Margo Balboni is cramming college into three years to cut down on the cost of her student loans. As it is, the University of North Carolina sophomore expects to graduate in a few years with $20,000 in debt.

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How Obama is seeking youth vote

The UK could face a growing threat from “lone wolf” terrorists returning from fighting overseas in the next few years, a think tank warns.

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‘Lone wolf’ terror threat warning

The chance of a big earthquake hitting Japan’s capital in the next few years is much greater than official predictions suggest, researchers say.

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Big Tokyo quake is ‘likely soon’

In the last few years, many of the top names in rifles and shotguns have been acquired by a corporate unknown: the Freedom Group.

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How Freedom Group Became the Gun Industry’s Giant

Experts say the violent weather of the past few years in the Northeast is stressing the 20th century above-ground utility grid as never before, along with the people who depend on it.

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Some Snowstorm Victims Not New to Losing Power

The work crews building Virginia’s high-occupancy toll lanes have spent the past few years tearing up the Capital Beltway. In 2011, they will start putting it back together.

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Beltway drivers to encounter new phase of construction in Virginia

Just a few years before becoming embroiled in fighting a rebellion, Moammar Gadhafi was spending millions of dollars a year to wage a secret PR campaign to burnish his global image as a statesman and a reformer, confidential documents show.

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Gadhafi paid millions to U.S. firms

A device which can be worn like a watch could revolutionise the way blood pressure is monitored in the next few years, scientists say.

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New blood pressure device hailed

The Great Paradox — that is what future generations will likely call this era, and rightly so. Our children’s children will look back and see that just a few years after the deregulatory agenda of anti-government ideologues resulted in a horrific recession, American politics somehow became even more dominated by anti-government zealotry than ever before. read more

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David Sirota | The Submerged State

A new vaccine that could become available in the United States in the next few years is made by growing the virus in cultures of animal cells rather than in chicken eggs.

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Success in New Method for Flu Vaccine

The Senate is considering reforming the rules for filibusters. In the last few years the filibuster has been used so frequently that it is now conventional wisdom that “it takes 60 votes to pass a bill in the Senate.” This is because the public, and apparently even much of the news media, does not understand how the Senate operates. In fact, when you hear that something takes 60 votes to pass it is because it has been filibustered. read more

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Dave Johnson | Filibuster Make Them Talk

The lesson of the past few years: Watch out for things that can go massively wrong. What could go massively wrong in 2011?

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Frum: Mexico’s drug war nightmare

Paris – As Brazil looks ahead to hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, the country is struggling to line up the technical workers necessary for these projects, officials say. “We need to triple the number of engineers in the next few years,” says Maria Helena Guimar

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, made its own history Tuesday as its homicide rate reached 3,000 deaths for the year — 10 times the number of killings annually that the border city counted just a few years ago.

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Juarez counts 3,000th homicide of 2010