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Made with Love I loved your article "A Handmade World" [Jan. 25]. People often ask me why I chose to do mechanical engineering and not computers or electronics. And I always have to find words to explain that I like to see things happening. I like to see the pistons being pushed by steam, or objects moving as a result of a force, instead of working with wires where you can't see the resistance or compilers and processors executing algorithms. This article has given a single word to my long explanation - I am a steampunk. Manav Sachdeva, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH...
...Made with Love I loved your article "A Handmade World" [Jan. 25]. People often ask me why I chose to do mechanical engineering and not computers or electronics. And I always have to find words to explain that I like to see things happening. I like to see the pistons being pushed by steam, or objects moving as a result of a force, instead of working with wires where you can't see the resistance or compilers and processors executing algorithms. This article has given a single word to my long explanation - I am a steampunk. Manav Sachdeva Johannesburg, South...
...evaporate, Enron-style, in a sudden financial flame out, or close up shop and flee their creditors. That's why lending money to states is considered the surest bet around. Reputation aside, however, politicians abuse their ability to borrow just like any spendthrift with too many credit cards, and often pile up more bills than they can handle. Argentina, Russia, Mexico and others have stiffed their bankers over the past 30 years. In fact, the sovereign-debt crisis goes back as far as the concept of the sovereign state. The first recorded government default took place in the 4th century...
...economy flails, more cash-strapped consumers are embracing ye olde practice of bartering, often facilitated by that most modern of marketplaces, the Internet. Bartering is way up on Swaptree, Zwaggle and Craigslist, where, for example, a user in Memphis, Tenn., is looking to trade a new pair of boots for a kitchen faucet. But there's a complication to all this happy swapping: the IRS views bartered goods and services as reportable income. The agency has even set up the Bartering Tax Center. So does everyone need to report every little swap? "There are no tax implications for the type...
...subject of the book and film Black Hawk Down) and then the rise of a movement - the Taliban in Afghanistan, al-Shabab in Somalia - that proposed an extremist vision of Islam as a solution to the lawlessness. The two countries are both poor and populated mostly, it can often seem, by men with a uniform taste for beards, AK-47s and pickup trucks. (See what the U.S. Army can learn from Black Hawk Down...