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...market is also rallying ahead of two pieces of bad news. One is the unemployment number for March and the other is the GDP figure for the first quarter. If one or both of these is "better than expected" stocks may climb even higher. Over the last six months, these figures have usually been worse than analysts have forecast and there is not much in the way of anecdotal data to support anything other than the fact that figures will keep getting worse. The most important bellwether for economic activity may be the rate of contraction in manufacturing...
President Obama holds his first meeting with the leader of one of America's closest allies on March 24, a man whose climb to power in many ways mirrors his own. Like Obama, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd beat an older, more conservative rival to lead his country, riding a wave of opposition to the Iraq War and support for more action on issues such as health care and climate change. Both men are intellectuals from modest backgrounds, they lost fathers to car accidents at young ages, and a series of international crises are filling both their inboxes...
...Adams man, I would fight for interhouse dining restrictions, perhaps not quite to the death, but at least to the breaking of any bones which would not affect my ability to climb stairs or play one-armed basketball. We live in a society. There are rules. I respect that. Each year on the Thursday before spring break, the gods make a judgment regarding your freshman year conduct. If you acted like a cool sophomore or at least a moderately popular junior, they reward you with Adams. On the other hand, if you used a baby picture for your facebook.com profile...
...biggest challenge to effective policy as we attempt to climb our way out of this recession, administer universal health care, reform public education, and push through a climate-change bill is the de facto supermajority requirement for any bill in the Senate...
...Worse, the drug does not do its work indiscriminately. Modafinil binds to the same site on dopamine transporters as cocaine does, and one of the areas where dopamine levels then begin to climb is the nucleus accumbens - a spot researchers have come to recognize as a sort of addiction central for recreational meds. "The nucleus accumbens," Volkow and Fowler wrote, is a "brain region critical for the rewarding effects of drugs of abuse...