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Remember the Old Economy? Things worked then. Steel didn't break. Refrigerators cooled food. A pound of wheat was a pound of wheat, and people could grind it into flour and eat it. A hamburger consisted of two buns and a patty of ground meat, and a cheeseburger was a hamburger plus cheese...
...Brown] is very much a grind-it-out, dump-and-chase team," said Harvard Coach Katey Stone. "Sometimes you do have the tendency to stand around, especially when our kids were moving around pretty well, despite all the interference and the physical contact...
...visit Prudhoe Bay, America's largest oil field. Just beyond the western edge of the refuge, Prudhoe lights up the tundra for miles with megawatts of yellow industrial light. Steam belches from plants eight stories high; flames shoot from natural-gas flares; and bulldozers the size of houses grind back and forth along 500 miles of roads that link the 170 drilling sites along the coast. Five thousand men--and a few women--work here, pumping 1.3 million bbl. a day down the trans-Alaska pipeline. The scale of the facilities swallows them up, and the oil plants seem almost...
...once the home of irrational exuberance and dotcom mania, is just so 20th century. Yet the five members of TIME's Board of Economists, which convened in the Swiss ski resort, were less than unanimous. No one disputed that the U.S. economy is slowing and could even grind toward a recession, though most agreed that a recovery would come by late this year. The hottest debate was over Europe's ability to isolate itself from the woes across the Atlantic...
...really live here. In fact, the malevolence of the situation is worse than can ever be captured in those fantastic 30-second television shots. The suffering and uncertainty are constant, everyday and unspectacular. While CNN captures the moments when the violence boils over, it cannot capture the daily grind of conflict: emotions of fear, uncertainty, anger and frustration. Every Palestinian is not out in the street, head wrapped in a kafeeyah, throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. But Palestinians do live with constant uncertainty as to whether the Israelis will arbitrarily alter their lives. I live right...