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...shift in age, more women who already have children - this really does paint a different picture of women having abortions than the way it's portrayed in popular culture," Jones says, in reference to the popular notion that unintended pregnancy happens to careless teens and college kids...
...sudden shift in taxpayers' financial priorities...
...again it's about the economy, stupid - and financial markets and how they are best regulated. There will also be discussion of whether anyone on Wall Street will be forced to pay a price for the wreckage taxpayers are now being told they will have to clean up. That shift should benefit Democratic nominee Barack Obama for many reasons, as economics in difficult times rarely help Republicans. But this race has proved conventional wisdom wrong time and again. What seems more certain is this: though virtually no one was calling for it, a new era of big government has arrived...
...people on three Tube trains and a bus. Two weeks later, on July 21, four more men outfitted with explosives failed to detonate themselves on London's transit system. An internal memo leaked on Sunday from Sir Ian Blair, chief of London's Metropolitan Police Service, seems to shift potential blame from the police force to the unprecedented security fears. "We confidently believed that our systems of command, of surveillance and of firearms intervention were among the best in the world," he wrote. "However, they failed in response to a previously unforeseen circumstance, suicide bombers on the run." Blair...
Ultimately, however, skeptics say changes in the classroom won't translate to an equal shift in the way real-world business operates. Morici says that Wall Street's compensation structure rewards risky business, and that's at the heart of the problem. "Until the banks are compelled to reform their business practices, training and risk management and ethics at the business-school level isn't going to make a difference," he says. "The business schools train what the banks want...