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• N.Y. card collection includes 6,356 decks
Besides fueling countless parlor games and wagers, cards have served as souvenirs, erotica, satire, fortunetelling tools, advertising for everything from airlines to suspenders, and educational primers. A 1677 English pack in Columbia's collection is ...
• White House considers bank ownership stakes
NBC’s John Yiang reported Thursday that senior Treasury officials confirm that the action is authorized in the $700 billion rescue package passed by Congress last week and that the officials are considering all tools available to them. The ...
• Global rate cut does little to calm markets
So far, it’s not clear that those tools are going to be adequate for the job at hand. On Wednesday, a widely watched interest rate that influences the cost of capital in the private market, over which central banks have little or no control, jumped ...
• Bush: ‘We can solve this crisis and we will’
We are a prosperous nation with immense resources and a wide range of tools at our disposal ... We can solve this crisis and we will," Bush said in brief remarks from the White House Rose Garden. Bush spoke as leaders of the world's leading economies ...
• Why Clean Tech Is Taking Biotech's Shine
Today's burst of energy innovation stems from having the right scientific and discovery tools available and a shift in focus away from people when applying life-science knowledge, Lane and others say. Pharmaceutical companies have historically spent ...