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Economic history has seen other such surges, and the classic U.S. example involves the perverse proportionality of how the binge of the 1920s was followed by a three-year wringing-out after the 1929 Crash. Thus it's highly relevant - and a little scary - that experts are beginning to compare...
But that is not the right way to compare. You cannot compare greatness directly across the ages. There are so many intervening variables: changes in technology, training, terrain, equipment, often rules and customs.
As just demonstrated yet again at the U.S. Open, Woods is the greatest golfer who ever lived. How do we know? You could try Method 1: Compare him directly with the former greatest golfer, Jack Nicklaus. For example, take their total scores in their first 22 major championships (of which...
Whether there's a lush little Earth spinning around 55 Cancri is still anybody's guess. Spotting even a giant planet in the glare of its sun is so hard--astronomers compare it to looking for a firefly next to a searchlight--that no one really sees any of these...
The attacks have hardly dented Daschle's popularity back home. In a state with only 530,000 voters, he's used to cultivating his constituents virtually one by one. Last month he passed up commencement addresses at large universities to speak to a graduating class of 12 high school seniors...