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...Either way, the car-buyng public is the winner: consumers will see better-built, more fuel-efficient cars and trucks - gas-powered, electrics and hybrids - that will meet their every desire. Obama's challenge is to make sure some of them come from Detroit...
...find themselves on opposing sides of the conflict, is No. 1 at the box office. And while using Kurdish spelling remains officially forbidden, people make a point of using their Kurdish names when they can. "Rojhat," says one bright-eyed 29-year-old lawyer, extending a hand when I meet him on a recent trip to the Kurdish region of Turkey. "Not Resat". (Unlike Turkish, Kurdish uses...
...take their meds, grownups who have unsafe sex, and other flawed decision makers have chronicled the irrationality of Homo sapiens. Some of our foibles are quite specific, like overvaluing things we have, overeating food in larger containers and overestimating the probability of improbable events - the quirk that made the Meet Barack Obama fundraising lottery such a smart idea. But in general, we're ignorant, shortsighted and biased toward the status quo. We're not as smart as Larry Summers. We procrastinate. Our impulsive ids overwhelm our logical superegos. We plan to lose weight, but ooh - a cupcake! We're especially...
...truly want to make better choices," explains Yale economist Dean Karlan. He's a co-founder of stickK.com, where users make binding "commitment contracts" to forfeit money to friends or charities - or even "anti-charities" they despise - if they fail to quit smoking, lose weight or meet other goals they set for themselves. "But we need help to get us there...
Most importantly, fashionably dressed Italian Prime Mogul Silvio Berlusconi, true to form, arrived at the G-20 completely “G’d up from the feet up.” Smooth teamwork is not the style of diplomacy the world is used to seeing at these meetings. After all, we’ve come to expect deadlock on the most important issues. The last G-20 summit ended with nothing but an agreement to meet again, and the Doha round of international trade talks was a joke...