How to become a trillionaire
Published 12:01 am Monday, January 3, 2011
Keep the change: Western visitors to the African nation of Zimbabwe are snapping up its old currency, especially its $100 trillion bill, which is going for about $5 U.S.
Among those making a special trip to buy the currency are members of the U.S. Congress, looking for an easy way to pay down the $14.3 trillion national debt.
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What’s below ‘underdog’? Making history as the first NFL team to win a division championship with a losing record, the Seattle Seahawks defeated the St. Louis Rams on Sunday and will play the New Orleans Saints on Saturday.
Should the Seahawks defeat the Saints and move on in the playoffs, the NFL has barred the team from referring to its dubious rise as a “Cinderella Story,” but it can use the term “Ugly Step-sister Tragicomedy.”
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Why can’t you be more like Opportunity? NASA says it hasn’t given up hope, but one of two Mars rovers, Spirit, apparently hasn’t moved for 1 ½ years and hasn’t been heard from since March.
Some NASA engineers speculate that the rover is simply sitting in its room playing World of Warcraft on its Xbox.
