How do you get an elephant down a sheer stone drop of thousands of feet?

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The currency high-roller: Float like a butterfly with the euro and drop like a stone with the pound!

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The Seed Savers Exchange is a 850-acre farm that saves and shares heirloom seeds like Strawberry Crown Squash, Lemon Drop Tomato, Stone Mountain Watermelon and Champion of England Pea for future generations.

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This is a cyberspace equivalent of the fairytale about stone soup, in which two men set up a big pot full of water over a fire in a town square, drop in a stone, and start stirring.

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"Some good news also was the sharp decline in the August import price index, " Stone said of the 3.7% drop, well ahead of Wall Street's 1.8% expectation.

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After you've lost the first stone and a half, then you've got to drop another ten pounds.

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