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...spoke to the national-team coach, and he was like, You're the fastest American there is, and you're less than a tenth of a second off the world record. You should swim. And I was like, Yeah, he's right. I haven't reached my peak...
...deal: if I were in my 20s, I'd be like, Oh yeah, no problem. But I'm almost 42. I had three orthopedic surgeries in the fall. My body breaks down much more than it would if I were in my 20s. But I haven't reached my peak. I'm not ruling it out, but I'm going to take...
...biggest one-month decline in absolute terms since 1949. Job losses from this recession are now markedly worse than those during the previous two downturns that had competed for the title "worst since the Depression." Nonfarm employment has dropped by 5.1 million, or 3.7%, since its peak in December 2007. In the 1981-82 recession, employment fell 3.1%, and in 1974-75 it fell 2.8%. (Here's the comparison in chart form...
...unemployment rate is still well below the 10.8% peak of late 1982, but this doesn't signify much. The rate is what economists call a "lagging indicator," and it will still be rising well after the economy has started growing again. It's also misleading, in that it excludes from its calculations people who would really like to have a job but have given up actively looking. As a result, economic forecasters tend to look more closely at payroll data, which come from a survey of 150,000 businesses and government agencies. (The unemployment rate is derived from a Census...
...effect of the new sentencing guidelines has been dramatic. Drug offenders as a percentage of New York's prison population surged from 11% in 1973 to a peak of 35% in 1994, according to the state's Corrections Department. The surge was mostly a result of convictions for "nonviolent, low-level drug possession and drug sales" Paterson told TIME, "people who were addicted and were selling to try to maintain their habits." According to Paterson, just 16% had a history of violence. "And so really," he says, "you're shipping off a generation." In 1979, the laws were amended, reducing...