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But with the stabilization of oil prices and disarray of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) came a return to complacency. Americans are in the process of forgetting all they learned about energy conservation. Yet convincing signs—including a recently released repot by the International Energy Agency...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken | Title: Guzzling Away | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

If there is a lesson to be learned from the happenings of the past year, it is this: Today’s world is a complex sociopolitical system, one that resists speculation from the narrow or clouded lens. From Cambridge in particular, where much of the high drama consists in...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Into an Uncertain Future | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

In short, the past 365 days have offered no shortage of evidence in the ongoing case against heavy-handedness, hegemonic or otherwise: The fledgling totalitarianism of Musharraf and Putin’s more robust brand seem to point in the same dreadful direction. Mistakes were indeed made at home and...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Into an Uncertain Future | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

So which delivery method makes the most sense for distributing tax rebates? Here behavioral economics has been instructive as well. In particular, years of research have demonstrated over and over that our intuitions about the relative effectiveness of different approaches are often wrong. Over the years we’ve...

Author: By Dan Ariely | Title: Irrational Economic Policies | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

A former painter, Lux, 38, brings her images to life with the attention to form, shape and color that she learned at the easel. The artistry begins at the photo shoot, but her signature style--the brushstrokes of her new medium--comes later, at the computer. First she strips out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loretta Lux | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

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