I haven't looked at what people are blaming today's market downturn (DJI -254.16 points) on, but I could've told you Friday this would happen. Why? This is why: Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's "This Week" — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. NBC's "Meet the Press" — Geithner We're lucky that the market […]
The space shuttle Atlantis almost blew up in 1988 due to an identical problem -- damaged heat shield tiles -- that ultimately brought down the shuttle Columbia 15 years later. The exhaustive attention NASA now devotes to making sure shuttle heat shields are damage-free and safe for re-entry is a direct result of the 2003 […]