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Read "Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature...
...while you may have always suspected that the folks who run the world aren't all they're cracked up to be, don't take too much satisfaction from the fact. It's the rest of us who wind up paying for their overreaching. (See pictures of how Presidents age in office...
...arranged to have the Cobbe painting subjected to a battery of scientific tests - tree-ring-dating to determine the age of the wood panel, X-ray examination at the Hamilton-Kerr Institute at Cambridge University and infrared reflectography. The tests produced convincing evidence that the panel dated from around 1610 and was the source for the Folger painting, among others. Wells is now sure of it. "I don't think anyone who sees [the Cobbe painting] would doubt this is the original," he says. "It's a much livelier painting, a much more alert face, a more intelligent and sympathetic...
...with a yearly family income of $30,000 to $35,000 and a credit score around 550 (that's low). In the past two months, though, the people at CareOne have noticed a shift. It's still women who usually get stuck making the call, and the age range isn't dramatically different. But credit problems are rapidly moving up the income scale. More and more calls are coming from people with family incomes a bit above $50,000 and credit scores above...
...Importantly, the infrastructure in America allows excellence to flourish. Brilliant young scientists are quickly identified by competitions and universities, ambitious young entrepreneurs are given capital and contacts by eager venture capitalists, charismatic young politicians are awarded power by voters, and basketball virtuosi are drafted to the NBA before the age of 20. But the less gifted are also well tended to in America. Investment in the mass of men—best achieved through investment in public infrastructure—has always been even more important than nurturing genius. All babies get vaccines, everyone has access to excellent roads...