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Perhaps we would all be a bit safer if gung-ho security types focused on effective methods of tracking terrorists instead of treating even 80-year-old little ladies like potential bombers. Taking a lesson from Israeli security profiling and tracking would be more effective than treating all of us innocent passengers like criminals. Brian Eyler, MOERFELDEN, GERMANY...
...explains in his introduction. Traditionally, Thais were rural folk who ate at home. But in the 1960s, with the country rapidly industrializing, people migrated from the farms to the factories, and food stalls sprang up to feed them. Their customers were once pitied or scorned. Women who bought takeaway instead of cooking for their families were called "plastic-bag housewives." (See the 12 tastiest new foods...
...Instead of sending tens of millions of dollars to Yemen for military purposes, the U.S. should be spending funds to eliminate illiteracy and poverty [Jan. 18]. Building schools with qualified teachers and medical clinics in every village would truly help the people of Yemen...
Bankers are born no greedier than the rest of us. That assertion alone makes Joseph Stiglitz's comprehensive postmortem stand out from the reams of books published so far about the financial crisis. Instead of attacking individuals, the Nobel Prize--winning economist faults the system that delivered us to the brink, citing the effects of everything from deregulation to the misaligned incentives of people selling financial products. But Stiglitz has his sights on a larger problem as well. For too long, he argues, economists and policymakers have relied on the erroneous assumptions that markets are fundamentally efficient and material wealth...
...Blippy, which was in beta until Jan. 14, my proclivity for eating at Mexican restaurants quickly became a topic of conversation among the strangers who started following me on the site. As I scrolled through other users' purchases, I was reminded that most people sometimes go to grocery stores instead of eating out every night. I noticed another Blippy member getting joshed about how often charges showed up from a particular bar. He bantered back that to avoid the appearance of a drinking problem, maybe he should switch to cash...