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...nearly 3 million years of human history, saving and investment was a dumb idea. We hunted, we gathered, we consumed, and we moved on to greener pastures. Only when migrating tribes learned to settle down and farm did they need to save and plan, storing seeds and surpluses to tide them over from season to season. We've had 10,000 years to absorb the truth that cultures that don't value THRIFT ultimately flame out and die. Apparently that isn't long enough to learn the lesson...
...Both new owners are avid readers, they love books, they plan their vacations around books,” Kramer said...
Republican Presidential candidate John McCain’s health care plan would likely have little impact on the number of uninsured Americans, according to a study co-authored by Harvard School of Public Health professor Katherine Swartz. Swartz and her three co-writers concluded that, within five years, this number could in fact increase. “Moving toward a relatively unregulated non-group market will tend to raise costs, reduce the generosity of benefits, and leave people with fewer consumer protections,” the study found. The group focused on McCain’s proposals to introduce...
Putnam and fellow researcher Thomas H. Sander plan to use the $275,618 grant to study how social context affects volunteering and civic participation. Both men are involved with the Saguaro Seminar, which works to improve the measurement of social capital—the set of resources, available in social networks, that lead people to help and get help from their connections—and studies this information to develop ways to improve civic involvement...
...greeted their leader, John Boehner, with a standing ovation. The reason for this outpouring of adulation: a day earlier Boehner, backed by John McCain, had shocked a meeting at the White House by standing up to Democrats and the Bush Administration and refusing to support the $700 billion emergency plan to rescue the economy. Boehner should have savored that moment, because it may be the most love the Ohio Representative will get for a long, long time...