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...Actually, that's not quite true. Since the vast majority of the cash goes to five row crops--corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and rice--more than 60% of our farmers receive no subsidies. And a recent Government Accountability Office report identified $1.1 billion of subsidies whose recipients were no longer breathing...
...course, it didn't happen." Instead, GOP leaders agreed the next farm bill would wean farmers off subsidies but only after they received seven years of guaranteed transitional payments--even when prices were high. Farmers also received more generous crop-insurance subsidies so that Congress would no longer need to send them disaster checks every time their region had nasty weather. But when prices collapsed again in 1998, Congress approved the most generous disaster packages in history...
...Hospital Discharge Survey, which began tallying newborn circumcisions in 1979, shows a downward trend, from 65% that year to 57% in 2005. Much of the decline is attributed to immigration from Latin America and Asia, where the procedure is rare. Additionally, in more than a dozen states, Medicaid no longer covers the surgery routinely, leaving many poor children without the option. But intactivism is also gaining traction among educated, middle-class whites. As University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox observes, "It's these new parents that are unwilling to let kids suffer...
...means making in a way that a lot of artists no longer do. Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst don't lay a finger on much of what bears their names. They hand their ideas over to studio assistants or skilled fabricators. Puryear is his own skilled fabricator; he has brought carpentry, joinery and boatbuilding techniques into his art. He knows that's a retro virtue. "To get your hands dirty building something?" he asks. "You can buy that nowadays. So a lot of artists buy a very high level of craft from somebody else. They don't put themselves...
Last year at this time, students were rushing to the post office to send in their application to Harvard. No longer. Though many other undergraduate institutions are gearing up to accept a large portion of their 2012 class, Harvard admissions officers will wait until January to begin vetting applicants. Though few colleges have followed Harvard’s example so far, we still hope that will change as admissions officers across the country come to realize how big of a boon the elimination of early admissions policies is to high school students and universities alike. When Harvard decided last September...