“Relying on cuts to reboot prosperity is a bit like starting a diet to treat Alzheimer’s: probably not going to work.”

“And I said, R.J., which is my older son, get up, son. And right when I said get up and I put my hands on him, the walls went, and he went. He just – he left. The tornado took him right then. I held onto what I have which is James Peter, and my wife held onto my other son, which I could hear her praying to my left. And I was praying over my boy, and I said -and I could see his little face (unintelligible) I could see him. He was looking up. I said it’s OK. It’s OK. And I was getting hit, you know? I was just shielding him. And my wife yells – she said: Do you have R.J.? I said no. I said I don’t. And then, I heard her get louder praying. And then, I started – I kept going, and I look up, and my oldest son come walking right through the rubble.”

— Reginald Eppes, a survivor of the deadly tornado that has already claimed nearly 300 lives, tells NPR how his oldest son was pulled from their home by the tornado.  His son survived and found his way back home with minimal injuries. Read full segment (centerforinvestigativereporting)

Via angelindiskies

1. A double quantity; twice as much or many; a number or magnitude multiplied by two.

1393    J. Gower Confessio I. 170   He saith that other have shall The double of that his felawe axeth.

a1400  (1325)    Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 7644   Dauid him þe doubil broght.

c1430    Art Nombryng (1922) 7   If thow truly double the halfis and truly half the doubles.

c1500    Three Kings’ Sons (E.E.T.S.) 76   There were moo slayn of them by double than they were that assailed them.

1611    Bible (A.V.) Isa. lxi. 7   In their land they shal possesse the double.

1715    tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §59. 350   The arcs GL, LH‥respectively the doubles of AE, EB.

1875    B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 485   Ten, which is the double of five.

 2. A thing that is an exact repetition of another.

 †a. A duplicate, copy, transcript (of a writing). Obs. (chiefly Sc.)

1543    Sc. Acts Mary (1814) 436 (Jam.)   The auctentik dowble of thir our souerain ladeis lettrez of summondis.

1628    R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 259   My laste will and testament, with a dowble therof, both signed.

1752    J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 60   Of which Warrant, the Messenger‥is‥ordained to give a just Double‥to the Prisoner himself.

 b. A counterpart; an image, or exact copy (of a thing or person).

 c. spec. The apparition of a living person; a wraith, fetch.

1798    Geraldina II. 189   Lady Withers, who is this Lady’s double, and attends her constantly.

1818    H. J. Todd Johnson’s Dict. Eng. Lang.,   Double‥4. In modern times, used for resemblance; as, his or her double, meaning another person extremely like the party.

1826    B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. v. 50,   I fancy, that in this mysterious‥woman, I have met a kind of double of myself.

1826    W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1012   The ‘fetch’ or double of the Gottingen student.

1871    R. A. Proctor Light Sci. 294   The appearance of a double or ‘fetch’ has ever been held‥to signify approaching death.

 †d. pl. Two of the same kind; twins. Obs.

1413    Pilgr. Sowle (1483) v. x. 100   Gemini that ben cleped twynnes or doubles.