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...President: Maybe you should. One fact that's not getting too much attention in these prospective deals, both at Chrysler and GM, is that they are a bit short on fairness. Just consider the plight of American taxpayers who have so far loaned $15.4 billion to GM and another $4 billion to Chrysler. As part of the latest flurry of announcements, both automakers are signaling that (a) they are not likely going to pay most of the government loans back, and (b) they will need many billions more. (See TIME's top 10 Chrysler moments...
...country's discontent melts into planting season, our government would do well to take this lesson from the garden. Especially as it applies to medicine. The doctor is a surprisingly fragile plant, in real danger of being strangled by a number of aggressive species. Here is a short field guide to their identification...
...short, decisions aren't based on brains alone. They are determined, as Kahneman and Tversky put it, "partly by the formulation of the problem and partly by the norms, habits, and personal characteristics of the decision maker...
...anyone else would challenge Specter in the Democratic primary, Sestak sounded a curiously cautious note in welcoming him, saying voters need to understand why the longtime Republican chose to switch at this particular moment. "If he were not running for re-election, would he have done this change? In short, is it worth any cost to hold on to one's job? Those questions need to be assessed by the citizenry," he told TIME. (See pictures of Obama's first 100 days in office...
...Huang says the trend is worrisome, partly because it could undo progress made in freeing up China's economy. "In the short run, the numbers may look good ... (but) a year or two from now, if China only relies on the state sector to drive growth, the fundamental distortions in the Chinese economy today will get worse...