Football makes us hungry
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 | 12:01 am
Being a football fan is hungry work. If the time has come to pursue heartier game-day fare than Doritos and Velveeta, you can find ideas in today's Forum and two new fan cookbooks. Based on how football season is going around here, we're also hoping one of the books can tell us which beverage pairs best with the bitter taste of defeat.
The state has reached a tentative deal worth an estimated $700,000 to sell its four leaky Steel Electric ferries for scrap. Officials had earlier tried to sell the boats on eBay for $350,000 apiece, but found no takers. Too bad. With a little creative thinking and some renovations, they could have been used as homes in flood-prone areas, since they'd just float -- for a little while, anyway.
What does $700 billion buy, besides bad investments? A whole lot of things, it turns out: among other things, you could pay for 70 Hubble telescopes, 1,750 bridges to nowhere or six years of universal health care. But if you're sold on the idea of bailing something out, $700 billion would also buy you 4,000,000 rusty ferries.
The state has reached a tentative deal worth an estimated $700,000 to sell its four leaky Steel Electric ferries for scrap. Officials had earlier tried to sell the boats on eBay for $350,000 apiece, but found no takers. Too bad. With a little creative thinking and some renovations, they could have been used as homes in flood-prone areas, since they'd just float -- for a little while, anyway.
What does $700 billion buy, besides bad investments? A whole lot of things, it turns out: among other things, you could pay for 70 Hubble telescopes, 1,750 bridges to nowhere or six years of universal health care. But if you're sold on the idea of bailing something out, $700 billion would also buy you 4,000,000 rusty ferries.
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