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The Lowdown: Fittingly enough, Lessig's book is a literary remix of sorts. Once dubbed a "philosopher king of Internet law," he writes with a unique mix of legal expertise, historic facts and cultural curiosity, citing everything from turn-of-the-century Congressional testimony to Wikipedia to contemporary best-sellers...
Still, a geopolitical Cold War is not at hand. The fate of Pakistan's government remains tightly bound to the White House, and China's booming trade with India is exponentially more lucrative than its transactions with Pakistan. Zardari's trip this week, though, is a sign of the many...
"It's an extremely important moment," says Emilio Silva, president of the Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory, which filed the judicial complaints on behalf of victims of the regime. "In 30 years of democracy, this is the first time the State has condemned the dictatorship."
Fortunately, scientists are figuring out ways to fish sustainably. One method is a quota system that guarantees individual fishermen or cooperatives a prearranged share of the total catch for, say, Alaskan halibut. These catch shares eliminate the incentive to overfish. And a recent study in Science found that catch shares...
If we are forced to increase savings, then spending has to drop, and that has ramifications for the stock market and the economy, because it implies we'll buy fewer computers and take fewer trips. With consumers hard-pressed, it is the government that will have to do the spending...