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...turned out to be something even more formidable than massive strikes, countless street protests, or even the explosion of violence in the nation's blighted housing projects that caused French President Nicolas Sarkozy's approval rating to sink. The reason for Sarkozy's score to slide under the 50% bar was the economy - and more precisely, the President's inability thus far to boost flagging purchasing power that French voters list aside unemployment as their biggest daily concern...
...favorite Christmas movie. A Christmas Story, the 1983 tale about Ralphie (Peter Billingsley), a 9-year-old in 1940s Indiana, and his lust for a Red Ryder air rifle, is everything Wonderful Life is not: satiric and myth-deflating, down to the cranky store Santa kicking Ralphie down a slide. ("You'll shoot your...
Social networks are a lot like nightclubs, and Friendster was the place to be in 2004 and '05, before MySpace came along and stole its mojo. In short, Friendster got boring. "It's like a high school dance," says Max Levchin, CEO of Slide, a top maker of image-based applications for social networks. "Everyone shows up and nobody does anything, because there's nothing...
...exporters, whose products are made cheaper on the global market by a dwindling dollar. But for these U.S. manufacturers, the weak dollar is a spark of good news in an otherwise gloomy outlook. "If I were a policymaker in the U.S., I'd be happy to see the dollar slide," says ABN Amro's de Jong...
...moral argument: “socialized” medicine by rationing care restricts choice. Individuals must then rely on the state for medical access, rather than their own willingness to pay. The extra costs associated with the government picking up emergency room visits is worth it to thwart the slide into single-payer healthcare...