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...Douthat through The Crimson, where, Douthat “established himself as the premier conservative voice on campus,” said Ambinder. The two continued to work together at The Atlantic. “If you look at his writing at Harvard, you see an extremely sharp intellectual mind,” he said. “Some of his writings were orthodox, others were heterodox...he was vacillating between the two, trying to figure out who he was as a writer and thinker.” “He was very much in the mode...
...considered for GM and Chrysler in the U.S. aren't currently on the cards for most European and Asian carmakers, which don't face the kind of long-term structural problems dogging Detroit. Instead, policymakers in countries with substantial automotive industries are rolling out programs to ease the short, sharp shock of plunging sales by giving consumers incentives to start buying again. In January, China slashed its sales tax on cars with engines of up to 1.6 liters. The measure, designed to get Chinese to buy smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, had an immediate impact. January sales of small cars...
...their natural-sugar only soda. Snapple recently announced that they’ll be losing HFCS in favor of natural sugar. And just last week Pepsi announced that “Pepsi Natural,” will permanently populate shelves within the next few weeks. All this is a sharp reversal of the mindless use of high-fructose corn syrup that has been the case in this country since 1970. This movement also promises to be at least a little bit greener. The energy necessary to turn corn into corn syrup leaves a huge carbon footprint. According to Chloe Frank...
...jams, jellies and spreads category was also down, by a sharp 12.1%. That includes peanut butter; while you might expect people to eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches instead of steak during a typical recession, the salmonella outbreak likely dragged down the numbers. Canned seafood, down 13.3%, is a little harder to explain. In general, seafood costs more than other products, but if consumers are trading down to canned goods, one might think they'd be buying more of it in cans. (Read "Why We Buy the Products...
...None of the current explanations of China's GDP growth are able to explain the discrepancy between China's GDP growth and the sharp drop in imports among the developed nations. China does not have another set of nations that it can send its goods in order to replace the diminished demand from the U.S., Japan, and Europe. As unemployment in these regions continues to rise, and that looks like a certainty now, China's ability to send its manufactured goods overseas drops each month...