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...This is riskier for taxpayers," says Andrew Jakabovics, an associate director at the Center for American Progress. Worse, it's not clear the program would do anything to boost the economy. Yes, consumer spending is dropping, but some economists think that is a function of confidence, not credit. "Paulson seems to be working under the impression that when it comes to consumer spending liquidity is the issue," says Dean Baker, who co-founded the Center for Economic Policy Research. "People aren't buying because they just lost a lot of money and might be about to lose their job." Lastly...
Luckily, there are many websites that help fuel more of these fights. We started at Babble.com where a collaborative-filtering function called Nymbler asked for a few favorite names and then spit out others enjoyed by people with the same preferences. This gave me results approved by my demographic, which we learned by the site's suggestions of Axel, Jett, Laszlo and Zed is that of pretentious, self-important yuppie hipsters...
...Basically, we're the bullet sponge.' FIRST LIEUT. DANIEL WRIGHT, executive officer of a U.S. Army unit whose function is to draw insurgents away from more populated areas in Afghanistan...
...there are those who worry that Emanuel's hard-edged style - he's famously profane and once sent an enemy a dead fish - will stifle dissent and debate in a White House that, Jarrett says, Obama wants to function using a "team-of-rivals approach, with differences of opinion." Comparing Emanuel with Richard Nixon's ruthless chief of staff, New York University government expert Paul Light predicts, "He's going to make Bob Haldeman look like a cupcake...
...Shamans are mystics whose common function in traditional cultures was that of a healer. Analysis of the woman's remains date her as being 45-years-old, a significant age at a time when life was nasty, brutish and short. She was under five feet tall and deformities in her spinal and pelvic bones give the impression that she may have walked with a limp, or dragged her feet. The presence of the hollowed-out tortoise shells, combined with intact bone pieces of leopards and other creatures - the complete forearm of a wild boar, for example, was placed under...