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...there is another, even simpler warning for the U.S. economy as we face our own deficit issues. "It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked," investor Warren Buffett has said. The U.S. has none of the currency difficulties of the PIGS. We do have a government deficit expected to hit 10.6% of GDP this year and a total federal debt that will cross 100% of GDP in 2012, according to White House projections. The rolling crisis of the past three years has been an embarrassing exercise in exposing the financially underclothed...
...nation where most people were already insured, and most of those seemed content with the status quo. Far from riding history's crest, Obama found himself shouting into the wind. A year into his presidency, two things stand out: the easy history has been made, and it's simpler to change our leaders than ourselves...
What they found came as a bit of a surprise. It turns out that the simpler measures - blood pressure, cholesterol and even family history of the disease - could predict just as accurately as sophisticated genetic screens who was at highest risk of heart problems in a 12-year follow-up period. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...leaving at the last minute," says John Handmer, director of the Centre for Risk and Community Safety at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology who conducted a review of the 'stay or go' policy for the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre. Back then, he says, "houses were built differently, smaller, simpler, more materials, surrounded by green gardens and probably burnt more slowly. Staying was likely safer...
While scientists and politicians debate the complexities of global warming, skiers and boarders have simpler concerns about the earth's weather patterns - namely where the best snow will fall. With low-altitude resorts being denied loans by banks and statistical projections suggesting that winter sports below 2,000 m will become a luxury of the past, skiing in Alaska's Chugach Range, a few hundred kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, makes more than good sense. It may soon be a necessity...