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...deficit on the current account, and while household and corporate balance sheets are overloaded with historically-high levels of debt. The most frightening thing, perhaps, was this: it's only the U.S. that is likely to provide real growth in the foreseeable future, as Europe's economy continues to perform with a sort of muddling disappointment, and Japan's stumbles from stasis to crisis...
...free market, wages reflect the scarcity of those services that different workers can perform. In other words, suppose Bill is a good computer programmer but an excellent web designer. Which job should Bill take? At first, the answer seems obvious. Bill should design web pages. However, what if good computer programmers are hard to come by and web designers are a dime a dozen? In this case, the ruthless forces of supply and demand ensure that the wages of computer programmers are higher than the wages of web designers. As a result, Bill gets the “signal?...
Gregory C. Padgett ’02, president of the Pudding Theatricals, said that while he is glad the Pudding will get to perform another show in the theater, he is excited for the renovations to begin...
...with a unique promotion during Ramadan two years ago - giving 25 cents (American) out of every sandwich sold to that country's 'Al Quds Intifada Fund,' which supported Palestinian children's hospitals treating casualties of the uprising. And in Egypt, local marketers chose singer Shaaban Abdel-Rahim to perform the jingle for its new McFalafel sandwich - a national hero for his hit song "I Hate Israel," which had become the signature tune of the boycott...
...upgrading the public-health system's surveillance powers. The ability to spot new disease outbreaks, diagnose them properly and get word out on the medical wires is central to managing crises like anthrax as well as more routine problems like Lyme disease, tuberculosis and the flu. Emergency rooms often perform this function in an ad hoc way; the emergence of West Nile virus in New York City was first detected by a hospital physician who was suspicious of two cases of encephalitis among her patients and prodded the city health department to launch an investigation. The CDC relies...