I read that the two Houses are trying to hit some compromise between an $819 billion and $827 billion stimulus package. That's a pretty insane amount of money - but then it's an insane crisis the U.S. (and everyone else) is in. Experts here are forecasting that Canada's economy will really get hit in 2009, after resisting much of the craziness going on elsewhere last year. I'll have to wait and see what that means for the average person (like me). I also heard ominous predictions that Britain's economy will suffer the worst in '09; they're saying Britain could be the next Iceland.
) a few months back. Then a few weeks ago, they moved a bunch of other stuff around, rolled a couple of classified sections together, and did away with the separate Book World section. 
Now it takes me only a couple of hours to read the Sunday paper. Which I guess is a good thing, in a way. But I miss the old marathon. Yesterday, when I finished the paper, I was going, "That's it?" 