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...clear what the business landscape will look like in the coming months and years. "There's a lot of evidence that suggests uncertainty right now is enormous," says John Haltiwanger, a professor of economics at the University of Maryland. "If some of these things were resolved, businesses might be able to get a clearer map of what things will look like in the future." Including, perhaps, how much they'll want to have some new workers on board...
Coming out of a recession is a tricky thing. Companies feel like it might be time to start ramping production back up, but demand hasn't fully returned, so they hesitate to hire. The conundrum: demand in the U.S. is overwhelmingly consumer-driven and people need to have jobs to feel like it's once again safe to spend money. It's a classic chicken-or-egg problem. Direct hiring by the government could, theoretically, sidestep the impasse. The question then becomes whether such a program creates more economic benefit than it does economic inefficiency by having the government dictate...
...while these controversies attract attention, there are also efforts to work out solutions to living with religious differences in Europe. Take a recent book by French anthropologists Dounia and Lylia Bouzar, Is There Room for Allah in the Workplace? The book offers legal guidelines on how work-religion conflicts might be examined, as well as practical suggestions on resolving them. "Paradoxically, as the question of the visibility of religious practice crops up regularly in the media, it remains a total haze in the professional world," the book notes. (See pictures of Islam's soft revolution...
...security experts what violent extremist group costs them the most sleep at night and the answer might very well be al-Shabab. Though not as far-reaching or well-known as al-Qaeda, the Somalia-based al-Shabab is particularly troubling to American officials due to its active recruitment of U.S. citizens - particularly from the large Somali community in and around Minneapolis - to join its battle against Mogadishu's weak interim government. In October 2008, the first known American suicide bomber - a 26-year-old Somali-American fighting with al-Shabab - blew himself up in northern Somalia...
...center in Taipei, a church bulletin board displays family pictures with children showing off drawings of pink lotus flowers, lush trees, ponds and imaginary bears from a drawing contest at the Botanical Gardens. Catherine Wu, a newcomer to the church, noticed something unusual on the board that any outsider might overlook: each family had two or more children. "Are people encouraged to have children around here?" she asked...