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Berry’s publishing career would take her from Doubleday to the magazine world, where she helped launch the American version of The Economist, worked for Newsweek and evaluated prospective magazines for the German conglomerate Gruner Jahr to purchase...
...Health economist Kenneth Warner, director of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network, remembers when the world thought it was everyone's personal responsibility to cut down on smoking and when the government had little to say on the matter. In many ways, he says, where we are in fighting obesity today is similar to where we were with cigarettes in the early '60s: "We've identified a health-risk factor, but we're only now starting to get serious about conveying its importance and magnitude to the public...
...only 16,500 green cards have been issued. "We're heavily dependent on foreign workers coming to Germany," says Stephan Pfisterer, head of labor and education for Bitkom, an IT industry trade group, "and this law will meet almost all our requirements." Not everyone is so enthusiastic. Some economists say the law does not go far enough and that allowing potential immigrants to be evaluated by civil servants is a bad move. "The law will not create an environment where we can attract the high potential candidates," said Holger Schäfer, an economist at the Institute of German Economy...
Nonetheless, Gandhi stuck by her decision and, as a result, a rather promising leader has been catapulted to India’s helm in her place, Manmohan Singh, an Oxford-educated economist. This shake-up could prove historic for India and provide America with a chance to turn over a new leaf in our behavior toward the nation, which has been less than considerate lately...
Surowiecki's thesis posits an uncanny and generally unconscious collective intelligence working not by top-down diktat but rather in dynamic arrangements of what the economist Friedrich Hayek called "spontaneous order." Surowiecki cites the giant flock of starlings evading a predatory hawk. From the outside, the cloud of birds seems to move in obedience to one mind. In fact, Surowiecki writes, each starling is acting on its own, following four simple rules: "1) stay as close to the middle as possible; 2) stay 2 to 3 body lengths away from your neighbor; 3) do not bump into any other starling...