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...budget, to be able to plan for things to buy - to postpone gratification," says Eileen. When the kids reach high school, parents may want to introduce debt into their financial vocabularies by allowing them to use credit cards. But the Gallos recommend training wheels first, in the form of debit cards or cards with a low spending limit...
...both individual Filipinos and their government. By law, the government isn't allowed to promote overseas employment. But the Department of Labor does arrange state-to-state labor contracts that send workers abroad and openly encourages private-sector recruitment for overseas jobs. Evidence of its success, in the form of advertisements for English courses, technical schools and recruitment centers, is plastered across buildings and telephone poles throughout Manila. "It's a global phenomenon; we have to accept it," says Vivian Tornea, a director at the Department of Labor and Employment's Overseas Workers' Welfare Administration (OWWA...
Rosella Hightower, 88, a former ballerina, founded one of the world's most famous ballet schools and one of the art form's most notable prizes...
...question is what form the stimulus should take. Pretty much any kind can work--what finally put a definite end to the Great Depression was military spending in World War II. But some kinds are more effective than others. For the past eight years, tax cuts have been the favored means of pumping up the economy. There's much to be said for putting spending power in the hands of hundreds of millions of Americans rather than in those of a few bureaucrats, but there is a catch. People tend to save part of their tax rebates. In 2001 about...
...meandering quality of 2666 has its own logic and its own power, which hits you all the harder because you don't see it coming. How can art, Bolaņo asks, a medium of form and meaning, faithfully reflect a world that is blessed with neither? That is in fact a cesspool of randomness and filth? An orderly book, all signal and no noise, would not be a true book. To mirror a broken world, to speak the unspeakable, you need a broken book. That Bolaņo should have died and left his book an orphan might even have struck...