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...elect Faust’s stunning record of historical scholarship on the Civil War, slave owners, and the political economy of Southern plantation agriculture is a strange response from a student of history at Harvard College. In particular, his derisive citing of Faust’s essay analyzing the impact of the exaggerated scale of deaths during the Civil War––more than 4,800 soldiers died on a single day in Antietam––on American life and society is particularly unfortunate given the time in which we are living...
Their conclusions tend to be quite similar. Public perceptions of the impact of the euro were skewed, they argue, because people noticed the rise in the cost of everyday items such as coffee and vegetables more than they noticed the declining costs of telephone calls, refrigerators and other less frequently purchased items. That in turn confirmed pre-euro anxieties that the new currency could be inflationary. Extensive media coverage of price rises didn't help. Moreover, some people may have simply not related their spending to what they were earning, and so made mistakes...
...medicine that the practice will have the most emotional impact. All patients would probably benefit if their doctors were abreast of the latest data, but none would benefit from being reduced to one of those statistical points. "You have to be able to take a good history and do a physical examination," Guyatt says. "And you have to have an understanding of patients' values and preferences." As much as some physicians might wish it otherwise, there is still as much art to medicine as there is science...
...what impact will the agreement have? At the very least, it provides the prospect of real improvement on the status quo, which is a North Korea bent on producing more weapons. If the Yongbyon reactor is shut down, the North's ability to make more nukes--or worse, peddle nuclear material to third parties--will be crippled. Although Pyongyang is a long way from giving up its nuclear weapons entirely, the diplomatic path toward that goal is more visible than it has been in years. This is likely the best deal the U.S. could get right now, and the fact...
...Australia produces 550 million tons of greenhouse gases a year. That's a mere 1.5% of world emissions. Australia on its own can have little impact on global warming. But policymakers believe that if the nation can develop a successful local carbon-trading regime, it will become easier to spread such institutions to the rest of the world. Largely because of reduced land clearing, Australia-which did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol-should meet an agreed target (limiting annual emissions from 2008-12 to 108% of 1990 levels). But the challenge beyond then could be formidable, and few people have...