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...futility of consumer capitalism: "We take wondrously adaptive capacities for human self-display - language, intelligence, kindness, creativity, and beauty - and then forget how to use them in making friends, attracting mates and gaining prestige. Instead, we rely on goods and services acquired through education, work and consumption to advertise our personal traits to others. These costly signals are mostly redundant or misleading, so others usually ignore them. They prefer to judge us through natural face-to-face interaction. We think our gilding dazzles them, though we ignore their own gilding when choosing our friends and mates." (See 10 things...
FlyBy wants to implore all of you to keep up the good fight. Today, at 5:15 student group leaders have organized a protest outside of University Hall to call for more transparency and inclusion in the budget cutting process. Don't forget, there are still 143 million more dollars that need...
...American and non-American. This is a global problem, and massive deportation will only make things worse. Where do you think these deported immigrants will find jobs? Maybe with the drug gangs south of the border? Or perhaps with the pirates off the coast of Somalia? Let's not forget that a newly recruited pirate, extremist or mercenary for a drug cartel is much worse than an honest, hardworking immigrant looking for a better life. Pablo Cortes, INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA...
...pull together legal and illegal, foreign worker and local. Where do you think these deported immigrants will find jobs back home? In Mexico, perhaps with the drug cartels south of the border. Or why not with outfits like the pirates off the coast of Somalia? Let's not forget that a newly recruited extremist, or a new mercenary serving smugglers and drug lords, is much worse than an honest, hardworking immigrant looking for a better life. Pablo Cortes, Innsbruck, Austria...
...live in splendid isolation while the rest of the world suffers serious economic damage," says Sanjoy Bhattacharya, a partner at Fortuna Capital, an offshore hedge fund. Tough challenges remain for India's economy, too, notes Sharma. "Just because there's been a good weekend doesn't mean you can forget all our problems of fiscal deficit and lack of infrastructure growth," he says...