Word: equalization
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...touch. But that's the case this week in Southern California, as the last of the wildfires that burned more than 500,000 acres (about 200,000 hectares) wink out. Even as the blackened landscape still smokes and pops, the nation is sorting through the equal measures of heroism and folly that accompany such disasters...
...outright gifts. And yet, even for self-declared neo-socialists like the Venezuelan president, there is no such thing as a free lunch. With different degrees of support, all these leaders are involved in the “Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas,” conveniently named to equal the translation of “dawn” in Spanish (ALBA). The commodity of choice may change across the region from gas in Bolivia to farming in Argentina, but the reincarnation of Chavez’s Bolivarian economic model does not: The federal state generates grassroots support by highly...
...something to make me look like a whore,” she said, tugging down on her shirt. “Plus, when I’m not saving the world, I do like to have a little fun.” And you’re promoting equal gender rights to boot! I shudder at the thought of Sexy Uncle Sam. Bet you didn’t think that you would still be dressing up for Halloween in college. “It’s great, this is about the only cause that Harvard students are dedicated...
...with the French at the fore, have always sought protection for their farmers as a way of preserving the rural environment and village life. Nick Stern, chief economist of the World Bank, recently estimated that total agricultural subsidies in the rich world were worth $300 billion a year--about equal to all the economies in sub-Saharan Africa...
...people—particularly artists, but others as well—choose the paths they do? Though the collection is necessarily a bit incoherent, Thurman’s consistently lively narrative voice compensates for any discontinuity. In each successive essay, Thurman takes on a new topic with equal ferocity, laying out for her reader the inner workings of the minds of artists, eccentrics, and politicians alike.Thurman opens her collection with “The Wolf at the Door,” a horrifying essay with a strangely hypnotic appeal. “The Wolf at the Door” profiles...