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...website (titled "Oops, Same Old Brett") trounced the former Packers legend: "Joy reigns in Packerland. Brett Favre has struck out." Meanwhile, in Facebook and Twitter comments posted throughout the game, I saw Wisconsinites cheering for the Saints, then basking in the schadenfreude of Favre's familiar demise. Having gone to school in Minnesota, I also saw my old classmates, who once mocked sports media fawning over Favre, cheering the fact that they now had the three-time-MVP's arm on their side. With the last-second interception of Favre's final pass, many of them felt for the first...
...Their reasoning? The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says so. But they raise taxes to pay for the subsidies—a surcharge on the rich in the House of Representatives, a tax on “Cadillac plans” in the Senate—taxes that could have gone exclusively to reducing the deficit. And the CBO warns that the deficit will lessen only if Congress cuts billions from Medicare. Yeah right...
...Chinese bondholders start to lose confidence in the value of the U.S. dollar, that could trigger another panic, regardless of the rationality of their fears. A little inflation might be a good thing, but if jittery markets take a little inflation as a sign that the Fed has gone soft, the result could be a run on the dollar and out-of-control inflation. Bernanke is determined not to squander the Fed's hard-won credibility as an inflation fighter, so he's continuing to talk like one, even though he hasn't really started the fight...
...paradox that filmmakers, critics and festival organizers are well aware of. The buzz is big "on the mountain," as they call it, but in recent years many of the festival's top-prize winners - movies like We Live in Public, Padre Nuestro and Trouble the Water - have gone on to fade quietly in a handful of theaters...
...found a long-sought PTSD fingerprint that confirms the disorder by measuring electromagnetic fields in the brain. The finding, detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering, could help the 300,000 cases of PTSD that are anticipated among the 2 million U.S. troops who have gone to war in Afghanistan and Iraq...