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...commentary is astute and accessible. A winner of the highly selective John Bates Clark Medal for outstanding economists under the age of 40—an honor he shares with University President Lawrence H. Summers—and a professor of economics at Princeton, Krugman is adept at translating economic phenomena and jargon into everyday language. His columns are often constructed around metaphors that help readers understand not only what is going on in the markets, but how that connects to policies emanating from Washington. In his new book, Krugman admits that even he was surprised by how intertwined economics...
Craig Hanson is up. The red ball rolls across the dirt. Hanson, 31, a financial adviser in Minneapolis, Minn., runs forward, kicking the ball into the outfield where an adept fielder snags it. But the throw is too late to prevent base runner Anthony Aderhold, 26, an engineer, from crossing home plate and lifting his team, the Ball Whackers, to victory. Yes, the recess game of everyone's childhood is piquing the interest of adults. The World Adult Kickball Association has more than 300 teams in 10 cities catering to more than 10,000 players. And the Midwest Unconventional Sports...
...decade's worth of clues and opportunities that if heeded, Posner argues, might have forestalled the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Posner is an old hand at revisiting conspiracy theories. He wrote controversial assessments dismissing those surrounding the J.F.K. and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations. And the Berkeley-educated lawyer is adept at marshaling an unwieldy mass of information--most of his sources are other books and news stories--into a pattern made tidy and linear by hindsight. His indictment of U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies covers well-trodden ground, though sometimes the might-have-beens and could-have-seens...
...preblast closing. And although Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, held its ground against the greenback, the blast has eroded business sentiment "just when things were turning around," says Thomas Lembong, a former official of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency who is now a private investor. "Indonesia is especially adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory." If the failure of the police to prevent the Marriott bombing is any augury of what is to come, Jakarta may be in for a long, losing season...
...glitches we're talking about, it helps to know a little about how the brain works. Researchers have long been aware that the two halves, or hemispheres, of the brain tend to specialize in different tasks. Although the division of labor is not absolute, the left side is particularly adept at processing language while the right is more attuned to analyzing spatial cues. The specialization doesn't stop there. Within each hemisphere, different regions of the brain break down various tasks even further. So reading a sonnet, catching a ball or recognizing a face requires the complex interaction...