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...stars were sacred. A man could be burnt at the stake for declaring that the earth revolved around the sun...Now the Christian world holds the stars to be secular...Is it not possible for us to do with gender, sexuality and reproduction what was long ago done with the stars? To realize that...new sources of information on them may be as valid as the information given us long...
...suburb. But so far in October they're back to normal, even as credit tightens, says general manager Eric Halleen. "People who might have qualified for an 84-month loan this summer are getting cut back to 62 months," Halleen says, "but we're still able to get deals done...
...major initiatives unveiled by Paulson, Bernanke and New York Fed chairman Tim Geithner over the past months have all been efforts to do for the shadow banking system what was done for the regular banking system in the 1930s. To stop the institutional run on money markets, Paulson announced on Sept. 19 an insurance fund for them that would be backed up by funds usually reserved for currency stabilization. The AIG and Merrill Lynch interventions were attempts to dissolve failing companies in an orderly fashion without panic, as was the Wachovia bailout. The opening of the discount window to investment...
...nuclear weapons, migration, drug-trafficking, diseases, energy and climate change, Patten sees enough opportunities for cooperation to remain an optimist. The former European Commissioner for External Relations is an unashamed liberal internationalist, happy to call antiglobalization activists hypocrites. But he also recognizes the severe damage American adventurism has done to Washington's image over the past few years and warns against exaggerating the impact of globalization on billions of poor people. The world, he says, is not "entirely flat...
...when Asians look at Barack Obama, they see, above all else, a black man. And most are convinced, TIME correspondents around the region tell me, that Americans will not, in the end, choose an African-American as their leader - simply because it has never been done. That the President of the United States should be white is a truism, reckons a retired Hong Kong Chinese professional who's a friend. His assessment of Obama is devoid of a critical examination of his values and vision. It's enough, says my friend, that "Obama does not look presidential...