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These are, of course, impious assertions to make in a place with some of the most marvelous feng shui ever bestowed. Because its harbor is shaped like a carp - a fish symbolizing prosperity - Hong Kong is thought to be the font of enormous bounty. Sinuous dragons make their abodes in...
I do not like Mr Berlusconi's public and personal behavior but I voted for him because there was no better alternative. I am happy with what his government has done so far, which is vastly more that any fractious, self-opinionated, center-left alliance did in the past. Many...
So much for that fall in unemployment, huh? It was a telling reaction, indicative of the still gloomy national mood, the perceived fickleness of monthly economic indicators - and the diminished status of the unemployment rate as a statistic. Once the indispensable, largely unquestioned measure of the state of the job...
Such measures still rely on people's own assessment of whether they want to work. A BLS study a decade ago found that these self-assessments aren't all that reliable. So how about the simplest possible job-market measure, the employment-to-population ratio? Among Americans ages 25 to...
ELIZABETH MATAKA, U.N. special envoy for AIDS in Africa, on a proposed bill to criminalize homosexuality in Uganda and execute those who test positive for HIV. Because of widespread criticism, the execution provision was removed; the bill is expected to be introduced this month