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GIULIANI: I controlled taxes. I brought taxes down by 17%. Under him [Romney], taxes went up 11% per capita. I led; he lagged...
...basket case if only it could afford the basket. It was once the industrial engine of the Korean peninsula, but decades of disastrous central planning have left its infrastructure in a state of advanced decrepitude and its citizens in de facto peonage. The U.S. government estimates the North's per capita GDP to be about $1,800, roughly the same as Zimbabwe's. Per capita exports are about $60 a year--less than 1% of South Korea's. Aside from fishing, mining and cement production, the North has only a hodgepodge of functional industries, including, weirdly enough, its animation studios...
...play a big role in the future of military reconnaissance and crop surveillance. The Defense Department has been funding such research for years, and now labs from coast to coast are starting to deliver promising results--like Harvard's microrobotic fly, below, that can beat its wings 110 times per second. The bug has yet to be outfitted with a camera or a self-contained power source...
...Rural Dream for Pleasure and Profit, are "picking up bales of hay in their Jaguar." Amusing as that is, the results are not all good. Hobby farmers drive up land prices in hot areas. They also raise big-picture concerns about total farm output. Hobbyists get far less yield per acre than the lifetime pros, and in times of food shortage they would further crimp the supply, usda officials warn...
...squad’s backup runner, Ricardo Galvez, playing only in garbage time, has more rushing yards than anyone on Harvard, Princeton, or Brown. Matt Polhemus, Eli’s senior quarterback, is throwing only 17 times a game, down from roughly 21 attempts per contest last season. Head coach Jack Siedlecki is going with what’s working, and that’s a heavy dose of superlative tailback Mike McLeod, who has amassed 719 yards and 13 touchdowns through four weeks...