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...view from the floor-to-ceiling windows in our room at the new Wynn Encore provides a distressingly clear picture of what's going on in Las Vegas these days. To the south, there's a casino project that has ground to a halt, half built, its steel skeleton an outline of a multibillion-dollar dream gone hungry. Across the street, there's a Modernist chapel, a lonely vigil of virtue on the Strip - people seek salvation elsewhere in this town. Look west toward the mountains and you can trace the Vegas real estate developers' dash toward the horizon with...
Paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson is the man who found the woman that shook up our family tree. In 1974, Johanson discovered a 3.2 million-year-old fossil of a female skeleton in Ethiopia that would forever change our understanding of human origins. Dubbed Australopithecus afarensis, she became known to the world as Lucy. In the years since, Johanson and his colleagues have unearthed a total of 363 specimens of Australopithecus afarensis that span 400,000 years. His new book, Lucy's legacy: The Quest for Human Origins picks up where his 1981 New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginning...
...Obama’s message to the American people is an unwavering pledge to end the economic plunge at all costs. Instead, this announcement sends mixed signals. Obama recently signed a $787 billion stimulus package, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, into law. Tim Geithner just set out the skeleton for a plan to rescue the banking system that could cost up to $2.5 trillion. Obama is also holding fast to his campaign promises to reform health care and education. He has also highlighted Social Security as “the single most pressing fiscal challenge we face...
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Recession and divorce, it is said, go together like carriage and horse. Those who labor in Splitsville have several explanations for why that might be. There's the lawyer theory, that money provides the soft fatty tissue that insulates the marital skeleton; once it's cut back and people get a good look at the guts of their relationship, they want out. And there's the marriage-counselor theory, that couples who were never quite on the same page in the checkbook finally get pushed off the ledger by endless bickering over their dwindling resources. And the therapist theory, that...