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Americans will find it easier to cope with such a development if Europeans are modest about their own habits. Whatever may have been true before last week, this is hardly the time for Europeans to claim they are more virtuous than the gun-loving, arrogant Americans. Ask the police and the demonstrators in Goteborg what they think of European values...
...summer session at Gallaudet University. A few lazy clouds threaten to water the already green campus and bathe a modest statue of founder Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Off the main quad, an orange steam shovel dips, lifts and pivots, grumbling to itself. Few students hear it. Gallaudet is the country's foremost college for deaf people. When Jim Haynes, at work nearby, instructs his philosophy class that "Plato argued that the concept behind this desk is more real than the physical thing itself," he does so manually, in crisp American Sign Language (ASL). His 12 students watch his hands intently, with...
...that families can expect by September, compliments of last month's $1.35 trillion, 10-year tax cut. (Singles without kids will receive about $300.) Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist for Morgan Stanley, says that while a recession may have got under way in the spring, the rebates should underwrite modest growth by this fall. (A recession is commonly viewed as two consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP.) Says Berner: "It's likely to be the shortest and mildest [contraction] on record...
...Marseilles' historic Vieux Port. But can the honeymoon last? Marseilles' real-estate market has long been undervalued, compared to Paris and most other French cities, says Merle, but prices are climbing. They could rise further as new arrivals compete for scarce housing, possibly pushing out locals of more modest means. It's also not certain that the wealth and jobs being created by the boom will benefit native Marseillais. There is still a labor shortage, even though unemployment remains at 17%. Despite the new training centers, many of these unskilled workers are unemployable in the high-tech sectors on which...
...Jack's room is still pretty small, in the literal sense; a modest-sized bed and some shelves take up the better part of it. But as he is pointing out various junk sculptures and random red and white objects in his house, a friend surfing the Internet calls him into a room that has become a slapdash White Stripes office to show him something on the screen: a copy of the first White Stripes single has just sold for $100 on eBay. "It was at $68 yesterday," Jack laughs, shaking his head in amazement. Soon after, the keyboardist...