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...tower at Restrepo. On the ground I no longer had that problem. Incoming AK-47 fire is higher pitched and metallic sounding. It shatters the rocks above your head and showers you with their fragments. It kicks up clods of dirt in front of you. It makes you run faster than an Olympic sprinter, 30 lbs of body armor, darkness and rocky path be damned...
...Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University. He says that China's trade surplus rose 42% on an annualized basis to a record $19 billion last month, despite the fact that the country's exports are declining at double-digit rates. That's because its imports are dropping even faster, boding ill for China's neighbors like Japan and Korea who rely on the U.S. consumer and now are desperately looking for alternative buyers of their goods...
...Francis found that the children who scored lower on both tasks were 30% heavier by the time they were 12, compared with kids who were better able to control their impulses. Not only did low-scoring kids gain more weight, but they also gained it faster, showing the most rapid increases in BMI over the nine years of the study's follow-up. (Read TIME's 2008 cover story "Our Super-Sized Kids...
...eventually cause a tiny spark of demand which will eventually turn into a raging recovery. These analysts may be right, but nearly everyone is frightened by the prospect of the carnage which would go along with the economy "improving itself" without government intervention. If unemployment gets worse much faster and the government's plans for making the economy right are shattered soon, the free market movement will get its wish by default...
...ears and I'm convinced. You can be dubious about global warming if you want - but not about cigarettes. They absolutely do cause cancer, vascular and lung disease - the things that kill most of us. I've watched scores quit too, seen their skin get pinker, their wounds heal faster, their lungs work better. It's true: No matter when they quit they're better...