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...Your reaction time, studies show, is roughly the same as someone who has a blood-alcohol level of 0.08--high enough to get you arrested for driving under the influence in 49 states. You forget to do things like double-check the spelling of a name or set the brake when you stop on a hill...
...Saturday, sporting a raincoat in place of his usual jacket-and-tie getup. Wait—so he doesn’t sleep in Sanders? . . . Not one, but two cars spun out of control at the same spot on Soldiers Field Road across the Charles early Sunday morning. Brake squeals and sirens interrupted the usual three a.m. sounds of vomiting fratguys and awkward “goodnights”... After several pundits floated her name as a potential Supreme Court nominee, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan ditched her new $1.4 million Cambridge condo last weekend for a pre-election...
...more difficulty making payments," says Sohn. Over time, the deficit could worsen that effect, by making interest rates higher than they would have been otherwise. "Its effects on the economy are slow and cumulative," says Ed McKelvey, senior economist at Goldman Sachs. "It's like driving with your emergency brake...
...Adding to such concerns, consumer prices in South Korea surged to a three-year high in August, largely due to rising energy costs. Higher prices for heating oil, gasoline and consumer goods act as a brake on domestic consumer spending, which Korea badly needs to boost to revive its economic growth. Recent data suggests that South Korea may be entering a period of "stagflation," in which slowing economic output is accompanied by rising costs. The ruling Uri Party has proposed tax cuts to help spur domestic consumer and corporate spending. But export growth slowed to less than 30% year...
...luxury fakes are part of a much bigger counterfeiting problem, also largely based in China. Worldwide production of counterfeit goods--everything from DVDs to pharmaceuticals to brake pads--has jumped 1,700% since 1993, according to the Italian anti-counterfeiting coalition Indicam. No longer just a localized business in Asia or Mexico, counterfeiting accounts for more than 6% of worldwide trade, or $450 billion a year. And some $100 million worth of fake goods are seized each year entering...