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...today: when to exit from stimulus programs that were introduced to combat the recession. Everyone agrees the cure for excess capacity is increasing demand, whether it is generated through a fundamentally strengthening economy or through artificial means like "Cash for Clunkers" measures. Turn off the tap too quickly before normal demand recovers, and the downturn could persist. "The best way of reducing excess capacity is by not prematurely unwinding stimulus spending," Lin of the World Bank told TIME...
...ordinary recession? There is a widespread belief among economists that a secular shift in global spending patterns is under way. U.S. consumers, the usual drivers of economic growth, are reducing their outlays and may do so for years to come as they pay down debt. Under this "new normal" scenario, some of today's spare capacity may never come back into action because total demand will remain depressed indefinitely. Factories in some crowded sectors will have to be permanently closed or retooled to make different products...
Scientists found that offspring of the animals who had eaten only the healthy items tended to choose those same healthy items when they became adults. They were also significantly more likely to have normal weight, blood sugar, insulin, triglycerides and cholesterol compared with the junk-food-eaters' offspring, who made less healthy choices as adults and were significantly more likely...
Cruise snuggled into the back row of the classroom and "assumed an attentive posture." Students, the creepily omniscient HLR reports, threw Cruise a few smiles but immediately resumed their "normal classroom activities": note-taking, hand-raising, "GChat"-ing, and—very weird, Harvard Law Review Record—browsing Net-a-Porter and Bergdorf Goodman. And then, "From time to time they would steal a sidelong look at the glowing actor." (Okay, so who thinks the author of this article was actually in the classroom when this all happened and was simultaneously shopping for a new Donna Karan shift...
...Famous Hilary Duff/Olivia Burke just wants to be "normal" storyline...