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...Man” in the NBA. Kobe forgets two things, though: first, MJ is 39 years of age and old enough to be his father, and second, he isn’t even the best player on his team. With Shaq there to preserve the nascent “Bling-Bling” dynasty, Kobe is not double- and triple-teamed like Jordan was back in his days with the Bulls. And so, despite attempting to “Be Like Mike” by trying to walk, talk and play like his former idol, Kobe is reminded that there...
...guess I do wish I had the luxury of not liking it if it didn't bling bling; I mean I go to Harvard, right...
...pressure on researchers to produce spectacular results, especially at a time when there is a squeeze on funds for research. As Raub notes, today only 30% of the applicants for NIH grants get them, compared with up to 70% in the 1950s. Senior scientists are often so busy scram bling for funds to keep their large labs running that they rarely have the time to look as closely at what their young whizzes are doing as they would like. What was once a sportsmanlike rivalry between researchers has become cutthroat competition. By publishing a paper first, even if some...
...plunge could be. During the nation's last recession, the worst such drop since the 1930s, unemployment rose from 4.8% in November 1973 to 9% in May 1975. Experts are concerned because the U.S. is entering the current recession with a much higher number of unemployed. Also trou bling is the rising so-called full employment level. Until a decade ago, Washington officials considered 4% unemployment to be in effect full employment. Any attempt to push the jobless rate below that would only result in higher inflation. Today many specialists believe that such a rate is much steeper. Says...
...weathercasts really necessary? Not absolutely. But in a nation of highly mobile and widely scattered people, it is both a comfort and a convenience to see the national weather satellite pictures, to watch the migrant storms and bright patches mar bling the land, and know just what kind of weather friends and family are under. An intelligent forecast enables people to plan their lives a little, instead of passively awaiting the atmosphere's surprises. Foreknowledge mitigates the tyranny of nature...