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...Liberty may not be choosy about the wretched refuse she allows in the door, but Americans haven't always been so hospitable. Immigrants from Ireland landed in the U.S. in the 1850s only to find shop windows festooned with signs reading "No Irish Need Apply." The Chinese toiled to build our transcontinental railroad in the 1860s only to see the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act signed in 1882, suspending further immigration. The unwritten rule was simple: pretty much anyone was welcome, except the newest group - or at least the one arriving in the greatest numbers - who would have a harder...
That's why building is starting to pick up in certain pockets of the country. In central Texas, to take an example, D.R. Horton, one of the nation's largest homebuilders, is planning to build upward of 700 houses without buyers lined up. Such speculative houses largely went away during the real estate bust, but for builders trying to stay ahead of growing demand, they are starting to reappear. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
Amgen is developing an anabolic therapy based on a genetic mutation found in people with abnormally strong bones. So far, says the company's executive vice president of research and development, Roger Perlmutter, early testing of the compound in postmenopausal women has been "spectacular." The agent appears to build bone density, and Perlmutter's team is continuing to study the volunteers to see if they experience improvements in fracture healing...
...Middle East [July 27]. The key problem continues to be the unwillingness of the Palestinian leadership and most Arab states in the region to accept Israel as a Jewish state. This is a much more fundamental issue than whether someone in Efrat or Ma'aleh Adumim can build an addition onto their house. Henry Goldberg, CHICAGO...
This isn't just airy-fairy philosophy: it's real, and it works. A decade after Steve Jobs co-founded Apple, he was purged by his own board, but after the sense of betrayal passed, and he went on to build Pixar and oversee Apple's glorious renewal, he realized his personal reset had been a blessing in disguise. "The heaviness of being successful," Jobs has said of his firing, "was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life." I happen...