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...officials in recent weeks have touted successes in bringing down the level of violence in Iraq, saying statistics showed that the weekly number of attacks in have dropped to their lowest levels since February of 2006 - just before sectarian war fully blossomed. According to the U.S. military, attacks of all kinds per week nationwide have fallen to roughly 575, down from a high of roughly 1,600 in June. Civilian deaths have fallen by 60% nationwide since then, too. In Baghdad, easily the most violent area of Iraq, a grim measure of the prevailing conditions comes in the count...
...efficiency just as much as they do cheap labor and access to new markets. In this new calculus, it is often surprising who comes out ahead. According to the Business Competitive Index, the Global Competitive Index's sibling measure developed by Harvard economist Michael Porter, the countries with the lowest wages relative to competitiveness - that is, the best values as investment locations - are Taiwan, Hong Kong and India, followed by Chile, Singapore, the Czech Republic...
...manufacturing and for the large R&D outfit that goes along with making memory cards. "By having it all in close proximity, it reduces overhead costs," says Sandisk president and COO Sanjay Mehrotra, "and that's the name of the game, to be able to produce product at the lowest possible cost." (Notice that had nothing to do with cheap labor...
...week of Thanksgiving also marks the year's lowest volume of searches on the term "diet." And it marks the peak of online searches for the term "depression," perhaps related to the failure to stick with our diets or, more likely, because we're stuck with - or without - our families. The good news, however, is that searches for "depression" and popular antidepressant medications have declined overall since Thanksgiving...
...more than 1,000 Americans, conducted jointly by the Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadership and U.S. News & World Report, suggests Americans were especially critical of the media, the executive branch, and Congress. Of the 12 sectors respondents rated, those three received the lowest marks. Even the institutions that fared best—the military and medicine—received barely passing grades, with respondents expressing only “moderate” confidence. David R. Gergen, the Center for Public Leadership’s director, said he found the results disturbing...