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...documents that help us understand how our pockets are affected by the latest tides sweeping the markets. An up-to-date depository and a glossary of simple financial terms for the average person would do wonders for financial literacy and financial responsibility in an age where the urge for rampant spending so often overcomes common sense...
...Foursquare has some heady problems to face before reaching critical mass. There's competition from a slew of similar sites, including Google Latitude (reborn from the wreckage of Dodgeball) and Gowalla, and there are rampant rumors that both Facebook and Twitter are interested in figuring out new ways to harness user locations in 2010. But the biggest challenge? Taking something that's popular in the young, tech-heavy communities on the coasts and making it appeal to moms and dads in between. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...Czarina's coffers. By 1860, more than 40% of government revenue came from vodka. The distillation process had improved (vodka was now filtered with charcoal and occasionally flavored), leading to increased consumption. By 1913, Russian citizens could boast one unlicensed, bootlegging distillery for every 10 households. Drunkenness was so rampant that in 1914, Czar Nicholas II took the drastic step of making alcohol illegal. (See "Fashions of the Russian Czars...
...pass health care reform legislation, Sen. Jay Rockefeller was one of the chamber's most ardent public option supporters. Without a public option, the West Virginia Democrat feared, insurers - fattened by billions of dollars in new government subsidies and a new requirement that most Americans purchase insurance - would run rampant, jacking up prices and padding profits and executive salaries. But Rockefeller and several other Democratic senators also had their eye on a different way to keep insurer profit margins within reason: setting strict minimums on what proportion of premiums must be spent on health care...
...China's rampant development has produced a legacy of terrible pollution, and China gives its citizens no voice in what happens to their neighborhoods. Our system may be inconvenient, but it allows our society to balance individual rights with the benefits of development. As you noted, that's one thing China can learn from us. Will Ashenmacher Minneapolis...