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...first, TaylorMade's r7 Quad driver looks, well, screwy. The season's most buzzed about golf club has four holes in its head and four weighted cartridges that are screwed into them with a special wrench--the first mass-market club with such features. It allows golfers to set tee-shot trajectory and direction to their liking at the start of a round, without breaking the rules. TaylorMade is betting that the Quad's $600 price won't scare off serious swingers, who seem to have an insatiable appetite for whizbang clubs like the Big Bertha, the last...
...Throughout the history of modern Asia, the Fed has been the only central bank that really matters. That's true partly because the Fed, by controlling borrowing costs, holds sway over the credit-loving American consumer, long the principal driver of Asia's external demand. In my view, Asia is deluding itself in believing that it has uncovered a new, autonomous source of growth in China. In the end, the American consumer remains very much in charge. That's especially true for China, whose economic health relies heavily on American consumers borrowing money to buy mainland-made washing machines, toys...
...adventures of an idea should be entertaining. The Wisdom of Crowds is a circus of oddments and behavioral studies--for example, of big-city pedestrian flow (an unconscious art form) and highway traffic snarls (caused by hiccups of human reaction time--"a single driver who's too ready to hit the brakes can slow down an entire highway"). Surowiecki describes a 1958 experiment in which a group of law students from New Haven, Conn., were asked to consider this scenario: You have to meet someone in New York City but don't know where to meet him or when...
...husband, Thierry, and their neighbors David Delplanque and Aurélie Grenon have all admitted to sexually abusing the Delay children. But the exceptionally talkative Myriam had kept the legal machine rolling for years by confirming the children's otherwise unsubstantiated charges that others were involved: the taxi driver that took them on their monthly shopping trips; the woman that sold them bread from a grocery truck; the well-liked local priest. On Tuesday Myriam proclaimed in court that none of the other 13 had done anything wrong, crying, "I'm a sick person and a liar!" Shock turned...
...catching up in the derogatory Italian-American-stereotype business!) On the plus side, the script has the kind of nicely set-up jokes you'd expect on "Friends"; in the first scene, Joey gives a long expository spiel about his reasons for moving to L.A. to the cab driver on his ride from the airport (acting auditions, getting close to family). So, the cabbie asks, what are you doing here in Dallas? There's a classic Joey moment of slowly-dawning realization, then: "I did have a layover in Dallas!" Clearly, this is the same lovable dimwit we remember from...