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...should you care? For going on 6 months, the state of Minnesota has not been given their right to representation. Now don’t discount this fact because you think Minnesota is the “boonies” or a “flyover” area. Minnesota has the highest voting rate in the country. 78% of eligible Minnesotans voted in the 2008 election. Garrett J. Augustine ’10 feels that the whole process of judges deciding the election is to blame. “Whichever way it gets decided by the judges does...
...competitiveness will recede. The yoga instructor says living more simply relaxes us, as if the entire country needs to slow its breathing. The buyer at the used-car lot feels both frugal and green: that hatchback isn't used, it's "pre-owned," and this counts as recycling. The discount shoppers view their task as a scavenger hunt and take a certain pride in finding the bargain, cutting the deal; 23% of us are haggling more, a profitable contact sport...
...Roubini pointed out in a recent report written for private clients, car sales in China have been "artificially boosted on a temporary basis by incentives" and so are unlikely to sustain their rise. Similarly, a spike in purchases of white goods in China's countryside was largely caused by discount vouchers supplied to consumers by Beijing, Roubini notes...
...combination of “Harvard” and “polo” may reek of rich-boy snobbery, but Nick refuses to discount the sport’s intensity on behalf of its image. “It’s expensive to play polo. There’s no other way around it,” says Nick, who believes some are involved in the polo scene simply for the presumed lifestyle. “How do you feel about those people? You kinda feel torn because they help push the game forward?...
...laws vary so widely from place to place and the civilian purchase of body armor becomes more common, the lines get more difficult to draw. "There's a challenge and a balance between giving consumers protective solutions and protecting those who serve," says Foreman. "I would not want to discount that there are others who may feel the need for protective solutions for their own safety...