Word: appeareance
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...coming months, economists are predicting. To cool down its overheating economy and help throttle price increases, Chinese officials employed a mix of policies that included limits on bank lending, a throwback to the country's command-economy days. Yet, despite these steps, the mainland's growth does not appear to be slowing appreciably. Investment bank Lehman Brothers expects China's GDP to expand 9% this year and 8% in 2009. "I think they are striking a very delicate balance between controlling inflation and supporting growth," says Qing Wang, chief China economist for Morgan Stanley, which projects even higher growth...
...research suggests the dominatrix may be on to something. David Mirich, a psychologist in Colorado, measured the intelligence of 220 BDSMers and found that they posted above-average IQ scores, "which is very unlike the criminal population of sex offenders and criminals," he says. Furthermore, their behavior doesn't appear to be a response to an unhealthy upbringing, nor correlate to psychopathology. Researchers have a long way to go to understand the phenomenon, but it seems clear that the desire manifests early in life. "When they were playing cowboys and Indians as children," Mirich says of the BDSMers he interviewed...
...Fantasies vary by the individual, but many Brits appear to draw on the legacy of their days in boarding schools. Kimberley says her most-requested role-play scenario involves men pretending to be naughty schoolchildren. "They will have been caned in their school days," she says. "There's something stuck in their brains that goes, 'I'd like to do that again.'" Another commonality? Men tend to schedule appointments after a Monday holiday, seeking release following a long weekend with their families...
...Kutner might not appear to be taking the apocalypse seriously - this is, after all, a man whose day job at The Daily Show involves reading depressing news and transforming it into "poop jokes." (Hear Kutner ponder the apocalypse on this week's Greencast.) But though the book is inspired comedy, Kutner says the theme came from his own preoccupation with the possible end of the world. He has a "go bag" - a collection of items needed in case of an emergency evacuation - and he calls himself and his wife "apoca-nerds." He looks around the landscape of American popular culture...
...prevailed among Americans who regarded themselves as right thinking. Twain decided that the country, or at least his readership, was not ready for that essay. It wasn't published until 1923, when Twain's literary executor slipped it, hedgily edited, into a posthumous collection. Not until 2000 did it appear in its original form, and then in an obscure, scholarly publication. It takes a genius to strike the funny bone in a way that can still smart nearly 100 years later. The nation's highest official accolade for comedy is the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor...