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...fact, we need a dictator to do all kinds of things. I want a law making all Internet browsers' default setting block pornography and for that setting to be difficult, but not too difficult, to change. I want all alarm clocks, when they go off, to mention going to the gym. I think there should be limits on when you can sue, a ban on guns not used for hunting, parenting licenses enforced by social-services visits, more obstacles to post-first-trimester abortions and a European-size tax on gasoline. Soda should be sold in containers no bigger than...
...proposed fixes to our retirement plans have to do with getting people to save more or invest better. The most popular solution is the so-called automatic 401(k). Under that plan, all workers would be enrolled in 401(k)s when they're eligible. Companies would establish default settings to boost returns and make the portfolios safer as workers near retirement. People who worked for companies that didn't offer 401(k)s would be automatically enrolled in savings accounts. In other words, make inertia work for employees, not against them. However, a number of economists and policy experts...
Dhanda told Grub Street Boston, a food and restaurant blog, that both restaurants were in “very serious financial default,” that Bombay Club hadn’t paid rent for “a number of months” and that several of the restaurant’s checks had bounced...
...When it comes to being apart from my biological blockmates, it’s tough. But there’s something to be said for having to make an effort—I can’t just count on the ease of them being in proximity by default. And my ever-growing consortium of adopted blockmates and linkmates makes this campus seem to be continually shrinking. Living in every River neighborhood was something I would repeat again without a doubt, if only for the sake of experience. Abbott Lawrence Lowell is probably spinning in his grave (I think...
...default expression. Pouting doesn't become you, dear...