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...appear on the money is not important, he said. Critics, however, argue that the Central Bank's exclusive authority doesn't give it creative license to invent new styles of currency that stray from the technical specifications laid out in the Monetary Law. "The government couldn't just start circulating cacao beans and say it's currency like the indigenous did," says economist Nestor Avendano. "They have to respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Nicaraguans, New Currency Is a Hot Potato | 5/23/2009 | See Source »

...fall into a football way of thinking," says Deirdre McCloskey, a professor of economics and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has studied the use of rhetoric in economics. The goal of competition is winning. If we want to win, then maybe we need to start helping industries that haven't done a very good job of competing on their own. Automobiles, anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Green Shoots': The Trouble with Economic Metaphors | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...Yankees were up 2 to 1, but obviously I had other concerns. A waiter came by with a bag of peanuts ($5) for me to down while I considered the menu. To start, I went with a box of chicken fingers with spicy buffalo sauce ($10), a lobster roll ($15), a hot dog ($5) and two large unsweetened iced teas ($7). And another giant bag of peanut M&Ms ($5). The waiter looked at me suspiciously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Beat the Yankees with Your Stomach | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...aimed at stopping people from talking about the more unpleasant parts of the country's past and that they are a response to the revision of Soviet history in Russia's "near abroad," where many see the Soviet advance during the war not as a liberation but as the start of an occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia and Ukraine Battle Over Their Shared History | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...just coming to the point now where I'm breathing about that, because they seem to be doing O.K. So everything else is just, O.K., we're working on these issues and we've got this stuff going. And I think that's going well. And as we start drilling down and thinking things through over the next few months and years, I'll have more focus. So I think I'm just coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with the First Lady | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

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