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After years of discouraging this behavior, state and county governments are now doing the opposite. Many counties have early voting sites setup at various point in big cities; other states have removed the requirement that voters must provide "a reason" for voting early or by absentee. Deadlines are expanding in both directions so you can request absentee ballots sooner and cast them later. Voting is, slowly but surely, getting easier...
Soccer's inflationary economics is simply good business in the current market - the real estate experience reminds us that bubble-economy behavior is perfectly rational until the bubble bursts. But there are certainly risks. The current combined debt load of the English Premiership clubs is about $12 billion ($3 billion owed by Chelsea and Manchester United alone). Figures for the 2006-2007 season put the league's annual wage bill at about $3 billion and its total revenues a little over $3.8 billion, with only eight of the Premiership's 20 clubs reporting an operating profit. Revenues have increased, thanks...
...much wine, it is known, can cause violent behavior. But few have gone as far as the grape growers of France's Languedoc-Roussillon region, the world's biggest wine-growing area by volume. Hurting from overproduction and cheap imports and punished lately by the rising cost of gas, a small group of local winegrowers has resorted to "wine terrorism" in a violent attempt to shock the French government into helping them...
Beyond slogans, some conservatives believe that Gates' emphasis on changing the behavior of large corporations in developed countries is misplaced. More good can be done, they say, by spreading the gospel of free markets to places where corruption and red tape still strangle capitalism than by tinkering with the machinery in places where it already works pretty well...
...beer pong? The game does have plenty more critics outside the walls of academia. The town of Belmar, N.J., for example, outlawed outdoor beer pong in 2005 after the city council passed an ordinance declaring that it exposed unconsenting neighbors to "foul language, rowdy and disorderly behavior and to examples of the consumption of alcohol under circumstances that are detrimental." Two other Jersey shore towns Manasquan and Sea Girt have followed suit, and state officials in Pennsylvania and Virginia have made bars put away their pong tables...