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Why the Economic Recovery Is Slowing Down
John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most famous practitioners of the high-minded guessing game known as economics, once noted that in the dismal science, “the majority is always wrong.” How else to explain the fact that so many economists upgraded their growth forecasts for the American economy at the end of last year, often to well above 3%, when the numbers so far this year have come in below 2%? The plunge is due to many things, from higher food and oil prices to supply-chain disruptions in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster to a terrible housing market.
Celebrating bin Laden’s death
There are so many things that make the killing of Osama bin Laden absolutely delicious: the hypocrisy of his being nabbed in a million-dollar, suburban compound even as he sent others to their deaths; the fear he must have felt as his bedroom door burst open and he found himself staring down the barrel of an American weapon held by an American soldier; the ignominious end his remains met — dumped overboard into the Arabian Sea like so much unwanted rubbish.
The Apple Of Your Ear
The iPhone started out the way a lot of cool things do: as something completely different. A few years ago, Steve Jobs noticed how many development dollars were being spent–particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan area–on what are called tablet PCs: flat portable computers that work with a touch screen instead of a mouse and keyboard.
The Death of French Culture
The days grow short.
TONI MORRISON: The Pain Of Being Black
Q. In your contemporary novels you portray harsh confrontation between black and white
How Protecting the Jungle Can Help Combat Global Warming
There are two important things to know about tracking wild elephants, and it’s better to learn both of them before you’re actually in the jungle, tracking wild elephants.
The Popularity of ‘Mafia Wars’
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They make their mark in mug shot history
Police say guilt was written all over their faces. “They probably were just not thinking straight and figured we’ll go out and scare the guy or whatever,” Cayler said.
Bolt vows to prove he’s clean of drugs
He’s the fastest runner ever, but Usain Bolt accepts that it will take people time to believe that he has no illegal assistance. “The Olympics is going to be a very big thing for me because I did extraordinary things in Beijing,” he said.