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Port of Long Beach as seen from outer space.
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Orange sodium vapor lights illuminate the port facilities of Long Beach, California, supporting the round-the-clock operations of one of the world’s busiest commercial cargo ports. Image ISS016-E-27162 was taken on February 4, 2008, using the 400 mm lens, providing superior resolution

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This American Life (radio) 355: The Giant Pool of Money

Prologue.
Ira talks with NPR business and economics correspondent about two gatherings he attended. One at the Ritz Carlton and one at a community college in Brooklyn. The first was an awards dinner for finance professionals who created the mortgage based financial instruments that nearly brought down the global economic system. The other was a non-profit conference for people facing foreclosure. Ira explains that today's show lays out how the finance guys and the people facing foreclosure are connected by a chain of middlemen, and that together, they all brought about the current housing and credit crisis. (4 minutes)

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needing, wanting, willing

"People think chutzpah is in the genes. It isn’t…it’s in the needing and wanting and being willing to fall on your face. It isn't fun…who wants all that rejection, but life is sweeter if you make yourself do uncomfortable things."

-Helen Gurley Brown (1922- )

size and strength are relative measures

"A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair"

-Iranian Proverb

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"Dance your cares away,

Worries for another day,

Let the music play,

Down at Fraggle Rock."

Fraggle Rock (1983-1987)

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"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."


-Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

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doing it right

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"

-Mae West (1893-1980)

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"To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success"
-Henry J Heinz (of Heinz Ketchup) 1844-1919

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"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work"

-Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

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-Barry Tunick, Editor of the LA Times Sunday Crossword

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