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...Vitamin D,” while fun, fell a little flat between the spectacle of “Rhodes” and the high drama of “Throwdown.” This episode is somewhere in the middle, with entirely too much Will Schuester but mercifully less out-of-his-genre antics than in episode three. Still, we bring your attention to Best Week Ever’s current petition on the embarrassing state of affairs. We’re also troubled by the continuing trend of improbable, sudden emotional developments. Sue and Rob made a great storyline...
...famous “Rabbit, Run”, edited for a 1964 reprint, in which the ever-meticulous Updike literally cut and pasted revised paragraphs into the margins and tucked them into the text. The Archive also offers proof that Updike was just another Harvard student, scrawling a less well-known moniker for the greatest English playwright—“Willie the Shake”—onto a copy of “The Tempest” for Professor Henry Levin’s Shakespeare course...
...Whether the broader public is benefiting from the industry's success is less clear. How Greenwood's group has scored decisive early victories on an obscure but crucial health-care provision is a case study in how interest groups are shaping the contours of health-care reform - and why that's not necessarily good news for consumers...
...unemployment and yawning excess capacity, policymakers are in no hurry to tighten. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve has indicated that it won't act aggressively anytime soon on its key interest rate, which remains in a zero to 0.25% range. "It seems likely that the recovery will be less robust than desired," William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said in an early October speech. "This means that the economy has significant excess slack and implies that we face meaningful downside risks to inflation over the next year or two." The Fed's key interest...
...Though less than 1% of Vietnam's primary or old-growth forest remains, overall, forest cover is actually on the increase. Vietnam's central government has been pursuing an aggressive national planting program to boost tree cover to 43%, up from a low of 28% two decades ago, says Dao Xuan Lai, head of the U.N. Development Program's Sustainable Development office in Hanoi. Unfortunately, many of the reforested areas are replanted with fruit orchards or fast-growing trees for the pulp and paper industry...