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...running out of natural resources. The problem was that there hadn't been enough investment in many sectors to produce those resources and bring them to market. The recession is making that situation worse. The amount of investment in the oil sector, for example, will likely be 30% lower in 2009 and at least 40% less in 2010 than was expected before the financial crisis, according to Merrill Lynch. In mining, investment could be 40% lower...
Willett said that these changes would reduce Americans’ penchant for sugar and condition their palates to a lower level of sweetness...
...next-door, red-blooded-American psychotic. His mania is success, his bloodlust is greed, and his pathology is passing. There was a Patrick Bateman—levered back in his chair, feet up on the desk, Walkman blaring—in every office of every building in Lower Manhattan.Vintage eventually picked up the novel, and the rest is history. These days it’s better known for its 2000 film adaptation, starring Christian Bale as Bateman. That film spared very little in the name of delicacy; in one scene, Bateman dives under the sheets with a woman and reemerges...
Mine's gotten just a touch worse. I have pain in my lower extremities and that's now shifted to my face around my right eye. I just don't want to think about what the next two or three years may have to offer if this crap cranks...
...Republican Party's approach to life in political exile. On one side are Koh's opponents, who want to harness Beck's populist appeal to stay on the offensive for a variety of causes. On the other are Koh's supporters, who want to retrench around sober messages of lower taxes, smaller government and American supremacy, and wait for public opinion to swing back in their favor. "Koh is just a surrogate" for that fight, says Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute...