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...companions on this 12-day expedition are India's foremost expert on snakes and crocodiles, Romulus Whitaker, and his wife Janaki. They effuse about the hills along the Kameng being aslither with the incredibly venomous pit viper. Between the Nishis, the tarantulas, the leopards and the pit vipers, I begin to wonder if a trip down the Kameng is more than I'd bargained on. Luckily, our expedition is led by two of India's most skilled river guides, Yousuf Zaheer and Anvesh Singh Thapa, who supply cooks, tents and the oarsmen who will steer our inflatable rafts...
...year. It is not a good sign that Congress is still fighting over the federal budget which is also part of the grand plan to get the economy out of recession. But, hope springs eternal. If the number of jobs lost in March is under 600,000, economists can begin to make a case that pessimists are wrong. Unemployment will not hit 10% early next year. If the figure is less than 550,000 jobs lost some overly enthusiastic analysts may say the recession has already ended...
...investigators tried to magnify any team rivalry that might exist by hanging their house banners on opposite walls of the testing room, requiring the participants to wear house T shirts, and dividing the room with a bright line of blue tape. Just as the work sessions were about to begin, one member of each team was taken from the room and asked to perform a task that had nothing to do with the actual study. Those students were brought back in five minutes later and instructed to rejoin a group; some were placed on their original team, others...
...great way to share photos that don’t lose pixels when you upload them. And all of these are more private than gone-public Facebook. It’s not as if we have much of a choice anyway—parents and privacy may begin with the same letter, but that’s about where the similarities...
...Rattner's aims are less clear. He started as a reporter at the New York Times in the 1970s and left to begin a successful career as a media-business dealmaker on Wall Street. His lifestyle is the envy of many who have watched his career, which also got its start at Lazard Frères - he has the fancy cars, the Fifth Avenue apartment and homes in Westchester and on Martha's Vineyard. A major Democratic donor, Rattner's brains and ambition have propelled him to the top, but he has made enemies along...