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California is the poster child for dysfunctional state finance. A week past the legal deadline for passing a budget, the state has yet to close a $26 billion hole. State workers are - yet again - being told to stay home. The National Park Service is threatening to take back parks it gave to California should the state try to save money by closing them. Taxpayers are getting IOUs in the mail instead of refund checks since there's no cash to pay them what they're owed. You can now buy the IOUs on eBay...
...psychology researchers had begun to influence economics, education and even government policy in some countries. But it was also clear that some of the heady findings from the infancy of the field had been oversimplified, and that later research has become more nuanced. (See 20 ways to get and stay healthy...
...stream of information that updates you on recent changes and additions to your friends’ profiles—provoked a massive backlash from college students because, at first, it felt like an invasion of privacy. Yet, before long, we recognized that the news feed made it possible to stay appraised of all the weird and interesting things the kids you never thought you would hear from again after high school were up to. Even the latest redesign of the home page and profiles was initially unpopular, but whatever opposition may have existed soon subsided. The lesson to draw from...
...colleagues have studied patterns of mortgage nonpayment, and found that in certain states there is a disproportionate number of people who suddenly stop making payments and never try to catch up. This, they surmise, might be an indication of walk-aways - as opposed to struggling borrowers desperately trying to stay in their homes, making payments when they can. The states with more sudden stops are California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona - places where property prices have plummeted and more than 30% of homeowners are underwater. "That's consistent with the idea that there should be more walk-aways in those states...
...site's two 26-year-old founders, Josh Foer and Dylan Thuras. They started the site, described as a "compendium of the world's wonders, curiosities and esoterica" three weeks ago, seeding it with strange places discovered on a road trip across the U.S. and during an extended stay in Hungary. Travelers from around the world have since chipped in with local oddities they've discovered on their own. (See TIME.com/travel for city guides, stories and advice...