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Imagine a whip-smart economist with a sprawling imagination. Now imagine he's 9 years old and wants to know everything. That is the basic profile of Steven Levitt. A University of Chicago economist, Levitt, 37, is in fact an adult. But he has built his name by asking questions packed with curiosity and devoid of judgment: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their moms? Did crime in the 1990s go down because the number of abortions in the 1970s went up, or is that just a coincidence? Does parenting actually matter when...
...first book, co-authored by the writer who profiled him for the New York Times Magazine in 2003, Stephen Dubner, Levitt has compiled a greatest-hits mix of his research. The book, unfortunately titled Freakonomics (William Morrow; 242 pages), is broken into six chapters, each posing a different social question. Levitt and Dubner answer them using empirical research and statistical analysis. And unlike academics who usually address these matters, they don't clutter the prose with a lot of caveats. They just show you the goods...
...from the 1940s--Sylvia Miller and her sisters Ann and Eve. Sylvia and I were engaged but broke it off because of the war. When their mother Zina died on May 10, 1943, the girls lived in Manhattan. The last address I have, from 1948, is for a Sylvia Levitt at 601 W. 160th St. I tried writing and did other things but had no luck. If I can find the Millers, I will fly out to see them, hoping to renew our lives together. I know it may not happen, but at age 80 hope...
When it came time to shoot, Sandvoss was joined by fellow rookie Ramsey as well as a troupe of more established names like Mary Kay Place, Jacqueline Bisset and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He says the director’s style allowed actors enough space to make their own decisions...
...owners expires on Sept. 15, and the two sides are nowhere close to an agreement. "The league has been preparing to trigger a lockout for many years now," says Ted Saskin, senior director at the NHL Players' Association. The owners are looking for wage cuts (according to the Levitt study, NHL players take 75% of league revenue, compared with 58% in the NBA), although they don't seem eager to cut the jobs of all those goons by eliminating fighting. Still, Davidson hopes the "black eye to the sport" will force the league to confront its precarious situation and "avoid...