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...much as a car loan, banks failing so fast that they would quickly drain the federal deposit insurance fund--and with it, countless people's life savings. And unlike the chain reaction that came over the course of weeks and months in 1929, this one would happen in a matter of days, if not faster. "The chain reaction," said Paulson, "is quicker than in the past...
These are bleak truths that Carrie Bradshaw could never grasp. Her life in Sex and the City is a fairy-tale fever dream of shopping and dating from which she will never awaken, no matter how many princes kiss her. She wouldn't last an hour at One Fifth Avenue. Bushnell knows this. She even slyly hints at it: Lola, the gold digger, "had watched every single episode of Sex and the City at least, as she claimed, 'a hundred times.'" Lola arrives in Manhattan expecting--nay, demanding--a West Village apartment and a Mr. Big. Suffice...
...from Islam. In a battle that is fought as much in the mind as on the ground or in the air, terminology is important, and Islamophobe is still hurled as an insult against those who speak out against the ideology that is related to the religion only as a matter of convenience.There is no objective correlation between the behavior of the Islamists and the religion of Islam, just as there is no objective correlation between the events of September 11 and America’s supposed misdeeds. There is no clear causal reason for either relationship. Amis explains this lack...
...critically engage in the world around them, and how to apply their knowledge to situations that are ever evolving. “In today’s world,” he writes, “it’s no longer how much you know that matters; it’s what you can do with what you know.” Indeed, he asserts that our competitive economic edge and even the strength of our democracy depend on it. However, while Wagner’s book thoroughly examines how standardized tests, aided by an inability to teach beyond...
...Scientists hope that what happens in the collider’s tunnel, sunk some 300 feet below the ground, may help to shed light on the mystery of dark matter, the ultra-massive entity that many theoreticians believe to be an important component of the universe. Some also have said that extra dimensions may be revealed when the collider works itself up to speed...