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...Don’t be so sure,” I said. “It seems to me that the intense heat from the fires could weaken the entire structure.” A short time later, I was sadly proven correct...
...early Tuesday morning, both in the US and in financial centers like London and Tokyo that open earlier. At one point in a Wednesday conference call, according to a participant, BONY predicted it would have its communications up and running in a matter of hours - only to be proven wrong by day's end. In another call, a US official promised to push phone service provider Verizon to put the repair of BONY's communication lines at the top of its work list as an urgent national priority...
...Fabian Society co-founder, once said: economists are "generally right in their predictions, but generally a good deal out on their dates." China's command capitalism is currently a mess, and repeated failures to sort it out could conceivably destroy public order one day. Perhaps Chang will be proven right?if we, including especially those party Neanderthals, wait long enough...
...Registering a gun, says Webster, makes it much easier to trace if it is involved in a crime. Licensing means the application process goes through a law enforcement agency, rather than being processed by a gun dealer. Creating that filter has already proven useful, says Webster. "We know from previous research that that there are some seriously shady gun dealers out there," he says. "In fact, we?ve found one percent of gun dealers sell more than one-half of guns used in crimes...
...tired, fruitless battles between Fordham and the Commission are some important truths. We do need to find new ways to attract more and better teachers - and since states seem in no mood to raise taxes, bumping up salaries may not be an option. Lowering entrance barriers is one proven way to attract new talent: there is no doubt that the time and money involved in becoming certified, along with the poor quality of many teacher education programs, turns people away. But it is also true that such barriers tend to weed out the half- hearted: studies show that teachers...