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...purpose of the government's stress tests of the nation's 19 largest banks is to find out which will need capital. The evaluations are based on several artificial, and, perhaps, unrealistic criteria. One is unemployment reaching 10% and another is a further, sharp drop in real estate values...
...India A MONUMENTAL EFFORT Voting in the world's largest democracy started on April 16, despite violent Maoist attacks intended to disrupt the election that left at least 17 dead. Staggered balloting for the nation's 543 parliamentary seats continues until May 13; counting will begin on May 16. Neither of India's two major parties is expected to win enough seats to declare an overall victory, so a new coalition government--including some of the country's smaller parties--could be formed after the election...
...have so many romantic partners? Thanks to multiple marriages and divorces, cohabitation, stepfamilies and various other couple combinations, America experiences "more turbulence in our family lives, more changes of partners and parents, than any other nation." So says Johns Hopkins University professor of public policy Cherlin, whose new study of the U.S. marriage landscape blames two contradictory yet dominant cultural ideals for our matrimonial meanderings. On one side is marriage itself, which holds a sacred place in American life. On the other is a "kind of individualism that emphasizes self-expression and personal growth." It's easy to see where...
...Glenn Beck fan and believe that our nation is on the road to destruction and that the President and his staff are responsible [April 20]. Beck does a great job of reporting the real truth of the news. Neil Lochhead, GROVER BEACH, CALIF...
...such an interesting laboratory. More industrious than the border Gomorrah of Tijuana to the west but grittier than the pin-striped boardrooms of Monterrey to the east, the city has long been a Mexican forerunner: it was the site of the Mexican Revolution's first military victory, the nation's first maquiladoras and the first opposition mayor during the PRI's long rule. Can it now take a lead in the drug wars by pioneering police reform? "This is our opportunity," says Rojas, who is thinking of returning to Juárez soon. "I think we're taking the right road...