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...wife. But I would sound even crazier if I said that I have seen all these pictures without having been forced to do so against my will. Call me crazy, but it seems clear that many major media organizations are doing their part to cast Michelle Obama in a certain mold, one into which she shouldn’t necessarily have to fit—the fashion maven and the cultural arbiter, the trendsetter and the globetrotter, the American queen and world icon...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: Less Fashion, More Substance | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

...system, as it is known, and especially its effectiveness compared to a carbon tax, have fizzed for years. Both mechanisms slap a price on emissions, and urge those affected to invest in more efficient uses of energy. Critics of taxes say that they're open to fluctuation and that certain industries can win exemptions, undermining a tax's efficacy. Opponents of cap and trade systems, meantime, level similar charges. This much is sure: while taxes might fix the short-term cost of emitting CO2, helping homes and businesses figure out how much to invest in energy saving measures, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Considers a Tax on Carbon Emissions | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

Volatility is almost universally misunderstood: that one number can imply any number of market conditions, all of which mean different things to different investors. That's because volatility assumes stocks prices move in a certain way, but this model is limited and unrealistic. Put options are used to hedge against big downward swings in prices, which are a very specific face of high volatility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock Volatility Is Down. But Is That Good News? | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...same thing happened throughout the government. It's really foolhardy to single out individual agency heads as we tend to do in our culture when really, I think the problem is deeper - the problem is the difficulty of orchestrating a change in mission when government is structured a certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Look at the 9/11 Commission | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...felt. It wasn't just the candidate, the confetti. It was also the fact that people could be in a room working together on a common mission, you know, you go to a rally and you're reminded that there are more people than yourself who believe in a certain set of values, and it renews your faith in your neighbors. And it gets you into conversations that you don't normally get into with one another that remind you that we have more in common than we - than we have - than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive Interview: The Obamas on The Meaning of Public Service | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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