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There seems to be a lot of fear about flying out there these days. Recently the news media devoted a lot of coverage to the Northwest flight that overshot Minneapolis and the United pilot accused of being drunk in London. Is the danger being overstated? Of course it's being overstated. People are not as afraid of things as they're said to be by the superficialities of the media. People know what it's like to die; everyone is prepared for it. We're not such cowards as one might believe from all the hysteria on television...
...economists believe that the longer Beijing keeps the stimulus tap open, the greater the danger that the good times in Chinese real estate could turn ugly. Louis Kuijs, a China economist at the World Bank in Beijing, commented in early November that even though Chinese policymakers may not need a "major tightening" right away, "risks of asset price bubbles and misallocation of resources in the face of high liquidity need to be mitigated." Kuijs concluded that "the overall monetary stance will have to be tightened eventually." Beijing's big test is to make sure that doesn't happen too early...
...danger associated with substance abuse is always a lurking threat. Considering that the fine line between occasional use and dependence isn’t always so easy to maintain, Simonton warns that consistent drug use can quickly devolve into a harmful and unproductive habit. “The minimal research that has been conducted suggests that marijuana does not enhance creativity. In fact, it seems to depress creativity, especially when the use is chronic,” he writes in an email...
Lessons have been learned since the Calley case, Silliman says, not the least of which is the danger of political intrusion and command influence. While members of Congress may enter the hot debate, President Barack Obama as Commander in Chief must be wary not to exert "unlawful command influence" in his pronouncements on the case, Silliman says, just as President George W. Bush and Administration officials in the chain of command were cautious in the Abu Ghraib cases. So far, Obama has not stepped over the line, Silliman says, by specifically naming Hasan. This is as close as the President...