Especially in this economy, one place you don’t want to find yourself in is debt. Life is expensive enough without hemorrhaging money in interest charges. Still, it’s a situation that’s becoming ...

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I wrote more than my share of group papers in my university courses because many of my teammates never showed up to meetings, and when they did, their work was usually poor. I didn’t want to take over ...

There are some places known to be really hard to get out of, like the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, referred to as "The Rock"; the Sahara Desert; the Moon; and, of course, the "Friend Zone." For the ...