Until it is clear how the PIP implants differed, and what risks are posed, "there is no reason to scare the hell out of all of these women who have implants, " said Joseph K. McLaughlin, a researcher at the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville, Md.

WSJ: Breast-Implant Risk Remains a Fluid Question

In heaven, there are no debts -- all have been paid, one way or another -- but in hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacted, though you can't ever get all paid up.

CNN: Our romance with debt -- we'll pay later

Regardless of whether it was a question of adding a dual-clutch system mid-lifecycle, or whether or not LCD prices had finally sunk enough to have one in even the base Mini Hardtop, the team seemed hell-bent on insisting that no major changes would come prior to the "next generation" of cars.

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Then you have a Congressional hearing starring self-indulgent, preening traders from guilty as hell organizations testifying that they had no idea all this was coming, that it was an act of nature and the reason they did so well was they just know more and therefore still deserve their bonuses.

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