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...Mess with the Zohan Directed by Dennis Dugan; rated PG-13; out now Zohan (Adam Sandler) is the most feared and accomplished of Mossad agents. But what he really wants to do is cut hair. Working with top comedy writers Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow and dispensing with his standard idiot hero and bullying tone, Sandler fronts his most satisfying movie since The Wedding Singer in 1998. It's good, dirty...
...yourself, "Is it too late to book Ali G?" However, anyone who stayed awake through EC 10 understands why this issue is so important.7 As Adam Smith pointed out in 1776, in the long run, more than any other factor, the productivity of the workforce determines a nation's standard of living...
...output per hour of work grew by nearly 3 percent per year, on average.8 But then, for the next 20 years or so, productivity growth averaged only about 1-1/2 percent per year, barely half its previous rate. Predictably, the rate of increase in the standard of living slowed as well, and to about the same extent. The difference between 3 percent and 1-1/2 percent may sound small. But at 3 percent per year, the standard of living would double about every 23 years, or once every generation; by contrast, at 1-1/2 percent, a doubling...
...Core and the skeletal Gen Ed will create even more confusion for students and their academic advisers, who are mostly in the dark about the process. The faculty’s own inability to articulate the new program does not help (it is disheartening to see administrators waffling on standard questions of academic eligibility and curricular options). Gen Ed has simply never been fully explained to students, especially those in the class of 2012, whom it will affect most...
...This new genus will provide better opportunities for research on plant morphology than the standard “model system” flower, the Arabidopsis, which Kramer calls “very boring” in this regard...