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...During the interview, Mankiw proposed that lower taxes, rather than paying for infrastructure development, would be better for the economy. During the interview, he maintained that we should go slowly when creating infrastructure projects. Investments in building roads, a better national electric grid, new green industries, quality education that is free to everyone, and other infrastructure investments will create jobs and increase our national income, because employed people pay taxes instead of collecting unemployment or welfare. Infrastructure development creates real long-term wealth, not just higher stock prices based on complex unregulated security transactions...

Author: By Thomas J. Donahue | Title: More of the Same Neocons | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...hand. These enchanters will not be driven out until we have good schools to educate children in the virtues of valor and grace; good doctors to keep bodies fit for work, whether this be threshing the fields or engaging in knight errantry; and good technology to keep our shores green, so that verses may be written extolling them for generations to come...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Tilting at Windmills | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...came in for the landing, I looked out the windows and remember seeing the buildings in New Jersey, the cliffs in Weehawken, and then the piers. The water was dark green and sure to be freezing cold. The stewardesses were yelling in unison "Brace! Brace! Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Park Avenue to the Hudson: A Flight 1549 Diary | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...Smile, you're in Swat," reads a billboard on the main road into the lush green honeymooners' valley in Pakistan once dubbed the "Switzerland of Asia." But over the past two years, Swat has been turned into a playground for the Taliban. And it may be the Taliban and their fellow Islamists who have the biggest reason to smile as a result of the Pakistani government's decision last week to end its floundering military campaign there and instead accept the Taliban's demand for the imposition of Islamic Shari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Pakistan Regain Control of Swat from the Taliban? | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...cares about services, some would wonder, when there has been a change in leadership? Saddam is not in charge. And maybe now, maybe soon, neither will the United States. As I was headed into the Green Zone the next day to pick up my credentials, an Iraqi army soldier stopped me. He did not want to let me through his checkpoint. Through a translator, he said that I would need a military escort to come get me, though the reporter I was with said no one had ever needed one before. A young U.S. Army soldier nearby agreed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New in Town: How Baghdad Has Changed | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

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