| What price paradise?
Sun, sand, surf, swimsuit and a reason to wear sunglasses. A solar-powered place where you need a flashy towel instead of an electric blanket, and the coldest thing in sight is the drink sweating in the glass at your elbow.
Oh, how we want it! A whole week would be paradise right now, in high season, while winter is still frosting our longjohns. And we want it cheap. Well, not that cheap. But, you know, affordable.
So, what price paradise?
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'Fast Money' Portfolios of the Week
Here are some highlights from over the past week as aggregated from the show. Fast Money's Short-Squeeze Stock Plays: The "Fast Money" traders see opportunity in stocks in which the bears are pressing bets. On Tuesday's "Fast Money" show, Pete Najarian told viewers, "Buy Crocs (CROX - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) in the hope of getting an upside squeeze." Fast Money's Short-Squeeze Stock Plays included IHOP (IHP - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) among others. Fast Money's Rail & Coal Stock Picks: The coal and rail sectors also have caught the attention of the "Fast Money" traders. On last Friday's "Fast Money" show, Guy Adami told viewers, "I think investors should go into the rails."Fast Money's Rail & Coal Stock Picks include names like CSX (CSX - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) and Union Pacific (UNP - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) among others.
Unique coffins, made in Ghana
Paa Joe Works designs for and provides its customers the coffin shape according to their orders. It could be the shape of an aeroplane, lion, cucumber, tomato, lobster, shoe, snake, a World War Two gun, a white Mercedes Benz, or a Coke bottle. Whatever, the shape may reflect what the person has done in their life. "The lobster could be for a fisherman, the cucumber for a grocer, the aeroplane for someone who has worked in the airline industry, or perhaps who used to fly a lot for his job," said manager Emmanuel Doku. The most unusual design it once made was the womb of a woman, ordered by a German doctor in 1992, according to Doku. The manager said the weird idea hit him when a man called Ataa Owuo decided to put her grandmother in an airplane to take her to heaven because the old lady had never traveled before.
Ready, set, go-cart!
If you've never driven a go-cart before, the first thing to know is that you can't reverse. That in mind, you're going to want to take the first turn with caution so you don't end up nose-deep in a safety wall of tires, waiting for the men in the yellow jackets to drag you back onto the raceway. That was me, one of the triumphant first spinouts in the life of Grand Prix New York, the indoor go-cart racetrack in Mount Kisco, N.Y., that held its grand opening this past week. Grand Prix's two tracks run a half mile total, about as far as I, a pedestrian Manhattanite, have driven in the past year. Luckily, I didn't have much of an audience. The facilities won't open to the public until next month, leaving the initial test runs to corporate groups and the unsuspecting Speed Racer wanna-be.
Roman Meshon, 36; taught English at Japanese school
Roman Carl Meshon never bragged about his accomplishments, but he did tout the success of his students at the Blue Hawaii English Language School in Kochi, Japan, which Mr. Meshon founded in 2001. "He was modest and never showed off," said Mr. Meshon's father, Steve of Sudbury. "The one time he did show off was when his students won awards in English-speaking competitions, by reading a poem or a speech." Mr. Meshon, a Sudbury native, drowned Sept. 17 while surfing near Kochi. He was 36 and had lived in Japan the past 12 years. Mr. Meshon was born to Steve and Nancy (Hagebak) Meshon. He graduated from Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School and earned a bachelor's degree in economics and Southeast Asian studies from the College of William & Mary. After studying abroad in Japan his junior year and becoming fluent in spoken and written Japanese, Mr.
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