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...confidence that Brazil is showing abroad, there's a lot to fix at home. Aside from corruption, Brazil's public bureaucracy is one of the world's most wasteful. Education, despite increased funding and access, is an embarrassment: students consistently score near the bottom of international math, science and reading tests. Exorbitant taxes and violent crime scare off foreign investors, and in the Amazon, deforestation remains a problem...
Republicans need to worry less about fixing the party and more about what we can do to fix our country. Every chance where we can agree with the President and new Congress, we should. But where we disagree--with spending, with tax increases, with the stimulus plan--we need to stand up on principle and say what we would do differently...
...than your outstanding mortgage doesn't mean you're going to go into foreclosure or anything like that." Even for people awash in debt, homes are still places to live. If prices are given enough time to recover, they might still be a good investment too. (Read "How to Fix the Housing Market...
...middle one is cute. But I didn't begrudge what tween America feels for the group, because I do know this: Kids need to love things. And when they find something, they love it to pieces. The world is so fresh, their attention so intense, that any object they fix on - a toy, a TV show, the Harry Potter books, a new friend - becomes an object of the deepest, most transporting obsession, the purest form of first love. Anyone who was ever a child knows this; we all went through...
...breed new crop varieties, Fowler says we need to begin preparing now for the agricultural challenges of the future, using Svalbard's contents to build and breed new crops. "We've ignored the infrastructure of agriculture for too long," he says. "It's in our self-interest to fix this." The Svalbard vault may be a last resort, but it should also be the start of new Green Revolution...