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After the jump, FlyBy dissects what this two-dollar technological wonder actually does...
...Amelia Earhart, was finally made with Hilary Swank starring and India-born, Harvard-educated Mira Nair behind the camera. It happens that, in every recent year divisible by five, Swank has won the Academy Award for Best Actress: in 2000 for Boys Don,t Cry and 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. Numerology suggested another Swank statuette in 2010. But who, exactly, was supposed to pay to see her as The Aviatrix? Earhart's plane was lost in the mid-Pacific 72 years ago, making octogenarians the target demographic. Amelia didn't premiere at the Venice or Toronto film festivals...
...deflects sunlight, which cools down the earth; when Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines exploded in 1992, for instance, the SO2 sent into the atmosphere created a brief global cooling spell. Levitt and Dubner advocate pursuing this geoengineering scheme, which could potentially avert a hotter world for pennies on the dollar, compared with the long-term work of shifting to a low-carbon economy. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...keeping them healthy so they can avoid a surgeon or a hospital. "It's a chance for a primary-care doctor to be a hero again," says Dr. Thomas Graf, chairman of Geisinger's community-practice team. That's not the stuff of AA bond ratings or billion-dollar revenue streams, but it just might be worth more than both...
...regulatory regime that helped enable the financial meltdown. Real change to the current system, which incentivizes unnecessary risk-taking and corporate irresponsibility, cannot be replaced with simply cutting executive pay. The recent cuts are, in reality, a slap on the wrist for executives who will still enjoy multi-million-dollar pay packages and does not affect companies who were equally complicit in the crisis if they have already paid off their bailout loans...