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...doesn't even consistently measure what actually gets done. Did you pay a cleaning company to clean your floors? Congratulations, you've added to this year's numbers. Did you scrub them yourself? Sorry, you haven't. Buying eggs from a factory farm: a GDP boost. Raising chickens in your backyard: nope. Forty years ago, buying a VCR to watch a movie at home would have been a significant contribution. Today, picking up a DVD player adds almost nothing. But doesn't the more modern machine provide the better picture...
...flood-control project in Arunachal Pradesh. The governor of the state, a retired army general named J.J. Singh, then announced that India would deploy 50,000 more troops up there, though he tells TIME the additional troops were planned well before any hint of tension - and they haven't arrived yet. ("That's a future plan," Singh says.) With or without extra soldiers, India is watching the border. Singh says the Chinese army recently staged a massive training exercise in Tibet, with 50,000 personnel. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Tempestuous Nehru Dynasty of India...
Galactic. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Slightly Stoopid. You haven't heard of them either, right...
...didn't come up with them off the top of our heads," admits James A. McFadden '10, CEB vice-chair and a Crimson editorial writer. "There's definitely plenty of those I haven't thought of either." More after the jump...
...talking about that we're now going to give out the Nobel Peace Prize not for what someone has done but for what we hope they do. If this is the case, since I'm a musician, I'd like to go ahead and get a Grammy. I haven't been on Broadway, but I did see Jersey Boys a couple of weeks ago. I think a Tony would be nice. From this latest book, I appreciate my Pulitzer in advance...