Well Italy starts with rather more debt than me - around 2 trillion euros or 120% of its GDP or income.
There are plot twists and genuinely dramatic moments that made me think back to Half-Life 2 for a comparable experience.
But the third bottle-2 Brothers Big Tattoo Red-had a label that told me how the wine came into being.
But if it went exactly the same as the other one, it wouldn't bother me much - because it means we're 2-0 up.
Moses Chao, one of the wisest men I know, and a leading NYU neuro-scientist, has been warning me for 2 years about the danger of not finding a cure for Alzheimers, a debilitating disease of the brain that currently affects some 5 million Americans over the age of 65.
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Until then, me and the kids will be in the 2-D theater comfortably enjoying the film.
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Many people ( including me) thought Sony was crazy for sticking to MPEG-2 for their Blu-ray offerings.
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Few games carve out a space the way Half-Life 2 or BioShock did, or inspire me to actually finish playing the way the first Halo inspired.
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He had me bite down on a device called a T-Scan that contains 2, 000 pressure sensors.
In an email today, Carl Manneh told me that Scrolls should be ready for a closed alpha within 1-2 months.
In an on-camera interview, the Head of Research at Barclays Capital, Larry Kantor, told me that they expect a growth rate of 2.5%-3% for the last quarter of 2010.
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Universal delivers its trump card with Despicable Me 2 over July 4th weekend while Dreamworks releases its snail-racing comedy Turbo on July 17th, a frankly unusual release date for them, but no matter.
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If I have an appointment that requires me to wear a tie, I push a button and the 2-inch color LCD screen turns into a mirror I can use to check the knot.
Then he and Fido could have dreamed of the Ritz as they rested their tootsies back home, just as the sight of my ill-gotten Argentinean laundry bag has me fantasizing about dancing the tango at 2 a.m. in the grand ballroom of the Alvear Palace.
At precisely 9 a.m. this morning, I plugged in my first-generation iPhone, booted up iTunes and excitedly began the process of updating the phone to software version 2.0--an upgrade that should allow me to install and use the new iPhone applications from the iTunes store.
If you put a 2-pound box of Cheez-Its in front of me, I'd probably eat them all.
"Dad won't give me a break, " says the shaggy-haired, 6-foot-2 teenager, who at the helm displays preternatural calmness.
He sat across from me in vivid color and full motion, waving and speaking through a 2-inch-square window on a Sony Vaio computer.
"He hasn't told me that he has had enough, " said assistant boss Mjallby after the 2-0 win over Hamilton Accies.
The Vietnam War seemed interminable. 2-S draft status was eliminated for people a year younger than me and by that time college seemed only a temporary refuge anyway.
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Some supporters of a bigger government role in health care claim that drug companies often produce "me-too" medications and have cited Vioxx and Celebrex, both of the COX-2 inhibitor class.
Another example: Even though I know a couple of neighbors very well, it would be a big hassle to ask for me to ask for a lift to the airport because that would mean almost a 2-hour round-trip.
So I need you to help me recruit 100, 000 new math and science teachers, improve early-childhood education, give 2 million workers the chance to learn skills at the community college that will lead directly to a job.
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So, New Hampshire, I need you to help me recruit 100, 000 math and science teachers, and improve early-childhood education, and give 2 million workers the skills they need at community colleges, and help colleges and universities cut tuition growth in half over the next 10 years.
"I feel like this whole tournament I've only played clay-court players from my first round to now, and everyone was also smaller than me, " the 31-year-old said after Saturday's 7-5 6-2 win over Italian seventh seed Sara Errani -- beaten by Sharapova in last season's French Open final.
When it was 2-1 and she missed a volley, I think that was a turning point for me.
It is, though, the 4.2% increase in self-employment and 0.6% fall in employment that strikes me as critical in understanding the data.
Or, he said, if you are delinquent for 8-10 months you can get modified into a 2% rate, but that was obviously not for me.
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