Word: complexity
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...That still leaves the problem of knowing whom precisely to scorn. "Capitalism," John Maynard Keynes once argued, "is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." It is tempting to blame the whole political-industrial complex, starting with whoever first had the idea of lending $750,000 to someone making $17,000 a year; the regulators who said that was O.K. and the politicians who encouraged them; the financial geniuses who rolled up all those mistakes into a big ball of bad loans, chopped them...
Previous studies have shown that wealthier, educated parents talk to their young children more, using more complex vocabulary and syntax, than parents of lesser means. And these differences may help explain why richer kids start school with richer vocabularies. But what goes on before children can talk, during that phase - familiar to any parent - when communication takes the form of pointing, waving, grabbing and other kinds of baby sign language? Do well-off parents also gesture more to their kids...
...might be a poor investment. The F-22s that exist are ready to fly only 62% of the time and haven't met most of their performance goals. "The airplane is proving very expensive to operate, not seeing the mission-capable rates we expected, and it's complex to maintain," Young said. Besides, he added, the Air Force plans on spending $8 billion to upgrade most of the F-22s it already...
...Tricky's "clubhouse" is in fact a recording studio. Opened in Oct. 2008 at the cost of $130 million, the 104 arts complex is part of Paris's bid to revitalize the city's arts scene. Seeing an opportunity for what 104 Community Outreach Coordinator Matthias Tronqual calls "a project at once artistic, economic and social," the city built the complex in a former municipal funeral parlor at the center of the troubled Flandres neighborhood - a melting pot of 30 different ethnic groups, with a 20% unemployment rate and over 60% social housing. After hearing about 104 from a French...
With 104's offer to provide him with studio space for a residence alongside other artists' ateliers at the new complex, Tricky saw the chance to take a break from recording and try his hand at producing. Four weeks and dozens of tracks later, Tricky's new beginning has led to an entire new album, planned for release this summer. The project's success is largely thanks to Amadou "H2-zoo" Ndiaye, a lanky 29-year-old whose young companions have nicknamed "big brother" and "deux-mètres," both for his imposing stature and the watchful eye he keeps...