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...that was then. The Depression inspired the creation of new measures like gross domestic product. (It was gross national product back in those days, but the basic idea is the same.) Wartime planning needs and advances in statistical techniques led to another big round of data improvements in the 1940s. And in recent decades, private firms and associations aiming to serve the investment community have added lots of reports and indexes of their own. (See the best business deals...
...much attention to health-care reform at the expense of the economy. To address this concern, he wisely spent a significant amount of time focusing on the economy, the middle class, and the middle of the country. By doing so, Obama indicated that his priorities undoubtedly include job creation, education, and a more open government...
...daughter's killers, bears a resemblance to last year's Liam Neeson hit Taken. But it's also the umpteenth recent movie to deal with grieving over a lost loved one (Brothers, A Single Man, Broken Flowers, even Up) and at least the fourth (after The Lovely Bones, Creation and Nine) in which the dead communicate to the living. Audiences may have tired of the high mope factor in these movies; they'd prefer to see an action star spending less time at seances and more at old-fashioned ass-whups...
...research center in San Martin, the Institute for Tropical Crops (ITC), to identify new varieties of cacao beans. The institute is studying 342 specimens collected from 12 watersheds. "We are working on categorizing the DNA of cacao," says ITC director Enrique Arevalo. The work will eventually lead to the creation of a Peru-specific chocolate that could be marketed the way countries sell wine. Hiderico Bocangel, general manager of San Martin's Oro Verde cooperative, says Peru is already creating a niche in the chocolate world. "We have the perfect conditions here to produce exceptional chocolate," he says...
...Mindful of the cloud of suspicion that remains over his administration following its return to power in flawed elections, Karzai in London reiterated his pledge to tackle Afghanistan's rampant corruption. At the summit, he announced the creation of an independent High Office of Oversight to investigate corrupt officials and the strengthening of other anticorruption bodies. "Fighting corruption will be the key focus of my second term of office," Karzai promised. "We are determined to put an end to the culture of impunity." (See pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...