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...University, one of the authors of the Lancet study, tells TIME that recessions have other deleterious social effects not directly related to health and that measuring an economic downturn's overall health impact is a vexed undertaking. "It is true, for instance, that mortality rates reduced significantly during the Great Depression, but that era also saw the rise of fascism, followed by a world war," he says. "So there's no simple way to measure the impact of recessions on a population's welfare." (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...
...elements of the research that could prove useful to lawmakers and individuals. "For instance, we might want to have traffic enforcement efforts increase when the economy is doing well, or we might want to raise taxes on alcohol and cigarettes," he says. "For individuals, when you get a great job opportunity and you know you're going to be working really hard, you could build in plans to protect your health. And when things aren't so good, use the time to focus on your health...
...China's Great Advantage There will be kinks. Chinese customers are likely to be just as sensitive to price as American ones, if not more so - and even China's low-cost manufacturers have yet to figure out how to make a reasonably-priced battery. Then there's the question of infrastructure. Few Chinese live in houses with easy access to plugs to power their cars, and there is little infrastructure ready for public charging. But none of that takes away China's late-starter advantage. Chinese companies don't have a hundred years of auto manufacturing to unlearn before...
...automakers in the U.S. and elsewhere aren't worried about losing the race for the next great technology to the Chinese, they should be. On Aug. 5, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a long-awaited $2.4 billion in government grants to support the manufacture of electric cars and batteries. "I don't want to just reduce our dependence on foreign oil and then end up dependent on foreign innovations," Obama told an audience in the economically depressed state of Indiana. "I want the cars of the future and the technologies that power them to be developed and deployed right here...
...Stewart's Daily Show too has seemed even more energized in the Obama era. Stewart's great discovery, of course, was that political satire in the 2000s no longer requires actual jokes. All that's needed is merely to present the hypocrisy and pomposity of political leaders in their raw, unvarnished form (Republicans denouncing Sonia Sotomayor on the floor of the U.S. Senate, say, before her inevitable confirmation) and append it with a sarcastic exclamation point or simply a mugging reaction shot. And if conservative politicians and talk-show hosts still bear the brunt of most of Stewart's barbs...