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When it comes to handing out gushy blurbs for movies, David Letterman is no Larry King. Yet when Natalie Portman was a guest on his show recently, the crabby old host couldn't stop raving about her new film Brothers. "This is the finest film made in the last 12, 20 years," he effused, and Portman nearly ducked, as if to avoid being drenched by the torrent of praise...
...also misleading to imply that companies aren't hiring. They are - about 4 million workers a month. There is always a lot of churn in the American labor market and that doesn't stop during a recession. (We don't particularly feel the hiring right now because companies are letting workers go at a higher rate.) In a best-case scenario - if using tax dollars to subsidize corporate hiring works exactly as it should - we'd wind up paying for 4 million hires a month that we would have otherwise gotten for free...
...switch from yearly to biennial screenings; it also advised women to eliminate breast self-exams altogether. Doctors, patients, cancer advocacy groups and politicians vehemently opposed the rolled-back recommendations, fearing they were a harbinger of health care rationing or that insurance companies would be tempted to stop covering screening in younger women. That concern was put to rest in December, however, when the Senate cast its first votes on health care reform, approving an amendment to guarantee coverage of mammograms and preventive screening tests. See the Top 10 Scientific Discoveries...
...many societies, photos of four-member families wouldn't be much to stop and take notice of. But as of this year, Taiwan has the lowest birthrate in the world, with just one baby born per woman. According to the Population Reference Bureau's 2009 annual report, Taiwan has now surpassed both Macau and Hong Kong, which have held the lowest spots on the world chart for the past five years. (See pictures of this year's deadly typhoon in Taiwan...
...continuing destruction of Arab homes, and the Israeli government's refusal to stop settlements in East Jerusalem, has sparked criticism from the U.N., the U.S. and the E.U., to the extent that this week E.U. foreign ministers are considering a Swedish proposal to recognize Palestinian claims on East Jerusalem as a future capital...