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...reasons, the arguments against the spread-out design of U.S. cities and suburbs have been getting louder in recent years. Anybody stuck two hours in commuter traffic can tell you some of those reasons. But researchers have begun to recognize a previously unsuspected drawback to the way the U.S. is constructed. What they have found is a connection between sprawling suburbs and spreading waistlines. Very simply, people who live in communities where it's hard to get anywhere on foot are heavier than those who live in less car-dependent settings, whether densely settled cities like Boston and Chicago...
...source of external growth could have a major impact domestically. Dramatic effects can also be expected in Taiwan and Hong Kong?economies that have become appendages of the mainland's production platform. A slowdown in China puts all that at risk. Meanwhile, in America, the drumbeat grows louder for a shift in U.S. monetary policy, presaging higher borrowing costs. With the American economy surging at a 5.5% average annual rate since mid-2003 and employment finally on the rise, a 1% federal funds rate is a joke. A year ago, the Federal Reserve implemented an "emergency" policy stance in response...
...people have a fantasy about China that bears no relation to reality," says Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of the Hong Kong-based China Economic Quarterly. "This is still a state-directed economy, and the government's latest steps have been a wake-up call." The alarm bells are getting louder. Consumer prices on the mainland jumped 3.8% last month, the highest year-on-year monthly spike in seven years. That is expected to increase pressure on China's central bank to raise interest rates for the first time since...
...letter is Summers’ first stand on these concerns before Washington leadership. Some scholars who have been kept outside Harvard’s gates because of visa delays argue that this is not enough—that the University’s leadership should have spoken out louder a long time...
...life to prevent, are increasing. Bishop Chrysostomos, leader of the island's Orthodox faithful and an ardent backer of the oxi campaign, is defiant: "As soon as we say no, six days after [that] we will be in the E.U.," he says, proudly. "Our voice will be heard even louder." Will anyone still be listening...