Word: alongism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When you pass along that wealth, you reveal it, and you can't exclude others from using it," says Samuel Bowles, an economist at the Sante Fe Institute, who led the study with anthropologist Monique Borgerhoff Mulder of the University of California, Davis, and economist Tom Hertz of the International University College of Turin and U.S. Department of Agriculture. "An economy based on brains and connections has more opportunities for equality that one based on grain and steel...
...fondly. Cheney's mythology has prevailed. The rosy fantasy of Reagan's tax-cutting has been coupled with the dread toll of Democrats - from Walter Mondale to John Kerry - who got clobbered for hinting that they might want to, uh, raise revenues. An antitax fetishism has overwhelmed both parties. Along the way, despite the melodramatic rhetoric, the actual rate of federal taxation has wobbled a bit, from a high of 20.9% of GDP in 2000 to a recession-driven low of 17.7% last year, but averages out to just under 19% from 1980 to today. If the not-so-onerous...
...When it opened in 1999, St David's Hotel was one of the first businesses to embrace the challenge of reviving the locality. Today, guests stepping out of the hotel's seven-story atrium for a stroll along the foreshore may be forgiven a touch of déjà vu. The area's panoramic setting is a backdrop for the British sci-fi TV drama Dr Who (the cast of which stays at the hotel during filming). Each of the 132 Olga Polizzi - designed rooms enjoys views of the bay, and the spa's hydrotherapy pool maintains the illusion...
...than Zanzibar. Its former capital, Stone Town, was literally built on slaves: the bones of thousands were encased in the foundations of several buildings in a horrific form of reinforced masonry. But if slavers deserted Zanzibar, the immense houses they built on the backs of their ghastly cargo remain, along with a host of cultural legacies. And that's Stone Town's main draw: the chance to walk through the past. At one time, this was where Africa met Asia, Europe and America, and it shows. (See TIME's photo-essay "Out of Africa...
...After a stroll along the promenade, pick an alley heading away from the water and immerse yourself in a warren of ancient caravansaries, markets and wooden balconies under which craftsmen still carve the intricate doors that are Zanzibar's signature decorative form. In the old slave market, you'll find traces of the past as well as of the surprising religious tolerance that slavery was shown: captives were flogged and paraded in the shadow of mosques, cathedrals and Hindu and Buddhist temples...