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...emerging. Already many Kenyans use them to store cash (via a kind of electronic money) and transfer funds. If you have to carry money over long distances - say, from the market back to your home - this kind of innovation makes a huge difference. You're less tempting to rob if you're not holding any cash...
...choice between doubling down and compensating for weakness is not unlike the judgment awaiting Republican John McCain. He could look to a younger Republican who is more oriented toward domestic policy - such as Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, who is 48, or former Bush Administration official and Ohio Congressman Rob Portman of Cincinnati, who is 52. Or he could forgo those relative newcomers and instead try to underscore his own experience by tapping former governor, businessman and Olympics organizer Mitt Romney of Massachusetts...
...That's why I like Rob Kutner. Kutner is a staff writer for The Daily Show, surely one of the most important jobs in fake journalism. He's just written a book called Apocalypse How: Turn the End-Times into the Best of Times. While most creative works about Armageddon (The Day After Tomorrow, Omega Man, The Road) tend to be bummers, heavier on cannibalism than comedy, Kutner's book is a lighthearted romp that looks on the bright side of the end of the world. Yes, it's a shame that a Christian Rapture could teleport all the godly...
...think blogs have changed the field of reporting? Rob Opaleski, CHICAGO...
...Park Some office drones work at a moribund company. That's really all Park needs Never have the minutiae of office life been so lovingly cataloged and collated The Mezzanine, Then We Came to the End (a book it superficially resembles, but only superficially) CHILD 44 By Tom Rob Smith A serial killer is loose in 1953 Russia, but the state won't even admit that he exists How do you catch a killer in a world run by the biggest serial killer of them all--Stalin? Anything by Alan Furst, Martin Cruz Smith (who wrote Gorky Park) or John...