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...Politics of Haircuts GM followed Chrysler toward bankruptcy like the next car on a roller coaster. The path was clear: if Chapter 11 was necessary to restructure the smaller, privately owned company, it would surely be needed to resolve the troubles of the publicly held behemoth. But simply seeing where things were headed didn't change the fact that it would be a wild ride...
...less in the region that tempers those tendencies - which better equips them for the socially competitive world into which they're born. Females have more heft in the neocortex, a higher-order region that wires them for complex tasks like nurturing and reading social cues. Again, it's not clear whether brain size drove traits or vice versa, but they do appear linked...
...years ago Sotomayor decided against an abortion-rights group that attempted to challenge the federal ban - since lifted by President Obama - on funding international family-planning groups that provide abortions. Writing to uphold a lower-court decision that threw out the case, Sotomayor said, "The Supreme Court has made clear that the government is free to favor the antiabortion position over the pro-choice position, and can do so with public funds." But that case didn't require Sotomayor to comment on the fundamental premise of Roe v. Wade - that the Constitution provides a right to abortion. Nothing has come...
...Cold War, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, would routinely play the Soviet Union and China off each other. In 2002, Kim Jong Il made a well-publicized trip to China, and in Shanghai - the country's showcase of development - the Dear Leader famously said it was clear that Chinese economic reform had "worked." Less well known is that on the same trip, Kim said that North Korea's unique characteristics were such that economic reform would not work there. And, indeed, it's never really been tried, despite China's prodding its neighbor to move down that...
...financial sanctions against the North - the only measures that plainly hurt the top North Korean leadership - precisely because not doing so would have cost them access to the U.S. and international capital markets. "Again, it was a cost-benefit choice for them, and in that case, it was clear the costs were much worse than the benefit of standing by Pyongyang," says a former U.S. intelligence official. Washington ultimately dropped those sanctions in lieu of a diplomatic effort to entice North Korea to give up its nukes...