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Gold is on the move. As the price of gold threatens to push permanently above $1,000 per ounce, it raises questions about why gold is becoming such a hot commodity and whether it truly is a safe harbor...
...biggest challenge to effective policy as we attempt to climb our way out of this recession, administer universal health care, reform public education, and push through a climate-change bill is the de facto supermajority requirement for any bill in the Senate...
...think the recession could actually amplify this push? You don't want to get me started on this! There are so many opportunities in this recession for breaking down antiquated ways of doing business, and not just in the environment. You can have fresh thinking during a crisis: how can we help the environment and save ourselves some money. Packaging is a perfect example. It makes me crazy to buy two Advil in $40 worth of plastic packaging. Yvon Chouinard, who runs Patagonia, is one of my close personal friends and a big environmentalist. He tells a wonderful story...
...expectations. There will always be sociopaths and oddballs in any society or era. We cannot hope to make every single person happy or non-violent. Exaggerating the link between video games and teen violence in this case smacks more of political ploy than effective measure. Policymakers who push for new bans on violent video games help placate the doubts their constituents feel while demonstrating their own supposedly proactive response to crisis. Action without reason, however, is not enough to prevent such shootings in the future and only acts a psychologically placating solution...
...older controllers to compensate for their poorer memory and response time. In the U.S., air-traffic controllers must retire by age 56 - a majority of the controllers currently working for the Federal Aviation Administration are coming up on mandatory retirement age - but maybe there's no reason to push them out the door...