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...example shows how hard it will be to switch to a more comprehensive measure. But it's also another lesson on how misleading the current figure can be. The numbers that caused so much shock were a better reflection of the country's long-range economic health. It might take time before we find a replacement for GDP. Until then, there's little point in marking our progress against something that's so clearly wrong...
Former U.N. official Peter Galbraith should be congratulated for taking a courageous stand on fraud in the Afghan elections, knowing he might lose his job as a result [Oct. 19]. I voted for Barack Obama, but I would like to see more support from Washington for officials who try to do the right thing...
...presumably terrified 6-year-old boy. When we learned during the coverage that Falcon Heene's family had twice appeared on ABC's Wife Swap, who didn't have the same thought? That if Falcon's parents would open their family life for a reality show, then they might also have planned ... but they wouldn't have, right? (See the top 10 skanky reality shows...
...still absorbed in a game played in miniature: recently, for example, a Kashmiri student was given a Chinese visa that was stapled rather than pasted into his passport, an implicit questioning of Kashmir's status as a state of India. Indian authorities, Guruswamy says, then quietly suggested they might do the same for Tibetans. Sure, this is small stuff. But it could get bigger. And high in the Himalayas, soldiers continue their patrols...
...science? Pfft. You might get a few minutes on Nova if you're serious and successful. But trick out your science, real or pseudo, with stunts and a catchy moniker - Legend Zappers! Storm Hunters! Ghost Blasters! - and get ready to sign. Perhaps the most surprising thing about Heene's proposed show (Jon & Kate meets MythBusters) is that it hadn't already been sold...