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As in “Atonement” and “Saturday,” McEwan employs a series of seemingly random accidents to set his characters on paths that they would not have otherwise contemplated. The main accident in “Solar” is a sudden...
Not only does high unemployment severely hurt our country’s future, but it also hinders our ability to recover from the current crisis due to its effect on the national psyche. As renowned behavioral economist Robert Shiller clearly articulated in a recent New York Times article, for a...
Second, more Crossfires. In today's highly segmented, partisan news environment, it's hard to create big new media institutions dedicated to objective news reporting. But it might be possible to create new talk shows and blogs in which liberals and conservatives interrogate one another's views - programs like the...
In this increasingly antidebt and anti-Big Government environment, the American people are turning against a Big Government health solution. A Rasmussen survey showed that 61% of Americans prefer scrapping the current, 4,500-page bill and starting over. (See a video interview with Newt Gingrich.)
Last year, India's environment ministry had to take back a proposed bill on coastal management after villagers protested that a change to the legislation would disrupt coastal ecology and the livelihoods of local fishing communities. India's health ministry is currently reworking legislation on human clinical trials to introduce...