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...friends can rent it from a video store, where kids are rarely carded. Or they go to Wal-Mart and buy the even grottier "unrated" version. (Wal-Mart won't sell R-rated movies to kids under 17, but it will sell unrated ones. Hostel was a No. 1 seller there.) Or they watch lurid clips on YouTube. You can whitewash the billboards, but you can't delete all the sources of input to a child's curious mind...
...shelves these days. In Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes, trader Michael Panzner warns of an economic meltdown that will lead to Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation and possible martial law. In Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis, which briefly hit business best-seller lists in 2005 and will feature next year in a documentary film by the makers of acclaimed crossword-puzzle geekfest Wordplay, financial-newsletter authors William Bonner and Addison Wiggin draw parallels between the early 21st century U.S. and the decline of Rome and imperial Spain. There are more such jeremiads...
...have heard such pronouncements of impending doom before, of course. Howard Ruff's How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years was a top seller in 1979. Ravi Batra's The Great Depression of 1990 hit No. 1 in 1987. Ruff's book did in fact ring in several very bad years, and there was a recession in 1990. But doom was averted, the economy came roaring back both times, and the lesson learned was that betting against the continued prosperity of the U.S. was a losing strategy...
...appeal came after last year's High Court ruling, which rejected Baigent and Leigh's claims that Brown had copied major themes from their 1982 non-fiction best-seller, including the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and that his descendents are still around today. Back in April, all eyes were on the trial and the ruling was hailed as a victory for the freedom of ideas. It even made a minor celebrity of Justice Peter Smith when he cheekily embedded a coded message into his written decision. This time around, few knew (or cared) that the appeal was even...
There's a niceness campaign overtaking corporate America. It's called the No Asshole Rule, a mantra set forth in a current business best seller of the same title. It is already practiced by the most esteemed employers of the day--Google, Southwest Airlines--and is finding followers even where being a jerk was part of the job description. If the campaign is won, soon all but the pleasantest of us will be banished from the workplace. And I, for one, will be sorry...