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As the pockets of resistance grow, GM may not have as easy a path through a bankruptcy court as Chrysler has had. Congress may decide to have an extended debate over whether the Treasury has the right to disintermediate bondholders and union workers. If the argument goes on long enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM: Using Taxpayer Dollars to Put Taxpayers Out of Work | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

By the seventh inning the 2-to-1 game had turned into a 9-to-1 game. I forget who was winning. It may have been the team of scrappy overachievers with nine players who make more than $13 million per year. The math I was interested in was $112...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Beat the Yankees with Your Stomach | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

Hurricanes and housing busts have already battered South Florida's image as an earthly paradise. But Miami's reputation for dysfunction is on display again this spring as the Obama Administration shifts health-care reform into high gear - and a spate of studies slams the Magic City as the poster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Cure for Miami's Soaring Health-Care Costs? | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

In 1937, in an attempt to discover the variables predicting happiness, researchers decided to track 268 Harvard sophomores over the course of their lives. Subjects were recommended on the basis of their “normality”; as study supervisor Dr. Arlie Bock explained to The Crimson in 1942...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Squeezing the Lemon | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

Unfortunately, money takes precedence over everything, even health. Businesses do not like to see their pockets picked twice by an unruly and inconsequential panic. That aversion to loss will only make things worse if thousands and thousands of people begin to die and commercial interests are slow to recognize it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preparing Businesses for the Flu Epidemic: A Waste of Time? | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

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