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...just seems wrong," and then they'll come up with all these post-hoc explanations. "Well, maybe there was some physical issue with Jeffrey Dahmer, maybe he had some illness that could be contaminating," or "I don't want to be seen to be doing something that the rest of the group thinks is bad." There are these responses towards events which trigger all sort of very rapid behaviors that you can, after the event, justify with a level of reason. But it's already after the fact. You've already made a decision on an intuitive level...
...while the deadline may be getting nearer every day, the world seems to be largely running in place. The Bonn talks were the first international meeting to be attended by President Barack Obama's climate negotiators - to the palpable relief of the rest of the world that former President George W. Bush's much maligned team was gone - but on the big questions, including how to address carbon reduction in rich and poor countries, tangible progress remained elusive...
What makes an Olympic athlete the greatest? In my mind, it's not the number of gold medals or world records but what one does with the rest of one's life...
...Payroll taxes are the roughly 15 percent that gets taken out of each paycheck to cover the costs of entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and, depending on the state, unemployment and disability insurance. The employee pays roughly half of that 15 percent, and employers cover the rest. The payroll tax is regressive in that there is a ceiling on how much of your income gets taxed. In 2009, payroll taxes will only be levied on the first $106,800 earned, meaning that a millionaire will pay a far smaller percentage of income in payroll taxes than someone...
...fact that it was created with a political rather than economic agenda, the currency remains alive and arguably very strong. As with most things in life, adopting it involves a trade-off. A country gives up monetary freedom (to devalue, for instance) in exchange for increased trade with the rest of Europe, coordinated monetary policy, and a confidence seal in terms of foreign indebtedness. Basically, through the European Central Bank, countries less reputable than Germany get access to German interest-rate levels in regular market conditions...