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...years not much at all. "But these aren't normal times," he says. "In recessions, even the short-term numbers aren't very good, because a lot of the factors that go into them are based on assumptions that the economy will behave within some narrow band of reality, and the way it behaves is outside of that band." (Read "Advice from an Economist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Economists So Bad at Forecasting? | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...other side of the wall, narrow paths led to houses and small shops selling playing cards, cold drinks, Mao’s red book. I stopped at a table with three bamboo waterwheels. The man carving another at a bench farther from the road came over and showed me how to turn the level so the twisting wheel would touch off the tiny hammers. He told me he spent three days carving each one. I didn’t know how to transport one of these to Hong Kong without breaking it. He took me inside his house to offer...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover | Title: Deliberately Lost in the Buffalo’s Gut | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...reorganization of this division is really a narrow administrative issue," said HMS Dean of Medical Education Jules L. Dienstag. "It has nothing to do with the commitment of HMS to primary care, which is unchanged, undiluted, and undiminished...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Suspends Funding for Primary Care Division | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...even that appeal was a not-so-veiled barb from Chávez. It was mild, admittedly, compared with the epithets he's thrown at Yanqui Presidents in the past, but it indicated the still narrow limits of U.S.-Venezuelan bonhomie. But Chávez is still going after the U.S. on his hours-long Sunday television show, Alo Presidente! (This week he repeated his claim that the CIA was somehow involved in the Honduran coup and warned Obama not to try to "trick us with ambiguous discourse or a smile.") And in Washington, even as she was aiding Zelaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Honduran Crisis: Making Chums of Chávez and Obama? | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

Rental cars are verboten in Bermuda - the narrow, winding roads have been deemed too dangerous. The law also prohibits hotels from providing transportation to guests to and from the airport, and taxis are expensive (the ride from the airport to 9 Beaches is $50). So, depending on the size of your group, the shuttle buses from the airport are a better deal, at about $15 per person. But smart visitors take the government-run Bermuda Breeze buses - from the airport and around the islands. Single rides cost $3; an unlimited weekly pass is $45, including ferry rides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bermuda? It's Close, Warm and Suddenly Cheap | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

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