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...have any advice for people who aren't naturally funny? -Antonio Lucca, Venice Be whoever you are. It doesn't matter if you're not naturally funny. Who cares? To be around funny people all the time is kind of exhausting. Sometimes you want to have an actual conversation. Antonio sounds like he would be able to describe to me various types of cured meats and cheeses or the best place to get a fresh piece of pasta. So I say don't worry about...
...whose breathable, casual footwear have developed a loyal following around the globe. On Wednesday April 1st, GEOX announced that it's entering the golf game; the company is launching its first line of shoes for the weekend duffers. GEOX is betting that its "NET System Technology," which utilizes an actual net inside the shoe's sole to help keep a golfer's foot dry, will attract enough fans to continue the company's growth. (See pictures of terrible golf fashion...
...participants to wear house T shirts, and dividing the room with a bright line of blue tape. Just as the work sessions were about to begin, one member of each team was taken from the room and asked to perform a task that had nothing to do with the actual study. Those students were brought back in five minutes later and instructed to rejoin a group; some were placed on their original team, others on the rival team. In both cases, the rest of the group had already begun working and the returnee had to be brought up to speed...
...once we get to the actual buying of what Treasury is gingerly calling "legacy assets" (I'm hoping for a public-service ad campaign with the slogan "It's not toxic, it's a legacy"), things may shake out much differently from what Wall Street hopes and Krugman & Co. fear. Both sides in the debate seem to expect that the asset purchases will provide nothing but benefits to the banks that sell. That's not a safe assumption. We don't yet know what private investors will be willing to pay for those once-thought-to-be-valuable legacies. With...
...million jobs. Venerable corporate enterprises are teetering. But as we gasp in terror at our half glass of water, we really can - must - come to see it as half full as well as half empty. Now that we're accustomed to the unthinkable suddenly becoming not just thinkable but actual, we ought to be able to think the unthinkable on the upside, as America plots its reconstruction and reinvention...