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There used to be a popular idea, up until a few days ago, that the world's economies had "decoupled." The United States, though worth 29% of the planet's GDP, no longer controlled the economic fate of everyone else, the thinking went, thanks to the rise of the global consumer, Europe selling to Asia, Asia selling to Asia. And so the increasing number of signs that the U.S. was headed toward recession - falling retail sales, weak jobs numbers, a cratering real estate market - were not really so worrisome. Even if growth in the U.S. lagged, everyone else would...
...wish you had chosen Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore for raising the world's awareness of the dangers caused by global warming and climate change. We must all act together and pool resources to save the planet. Jim Victa Hipolito, Kawit, The Philippines...
...exactly as biomechanically efficient as a normal runner. What should be the baseline: Normal for the average man? Or for the average Olympian? Cyclist Lance Armstrong was born with a heart and lungs that can make a mountain feel flat; he also trained harder than anyone on the planet. Where's the unfair advantage? George Eyser's wooden leg didn't stop him from winning six Olympic gymnastics medals, including in the parallel bars. But that was 1904; legs have improved since then...
...scouring the earth of humanity, but our hero, a disaffected nobleman, is strangely immune to the disease. The end of the book finds him climbing the dome of a deserted St. Peter's in Rome?a dog his only companion, the last human being left alive on the planet. Shelley called the book The Last...
...cast. The film purports to be a record of what happens to a group of average twenty-somethings on the night a massive creature attacks New York City. It features shrieking, running, cleavage, the severed head of the Statue of Liberty (a nod to two postapocalyptic classics at once, Planet of the Apes and Escape from New York) and a giant monster (the number of horns wasn't available at press time) shouldering its way between skyscrapers. But the most indelible images are of clouds of pale dust billowing down city streets and shredded copy paper sifting down...