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...Microsoft has reached the point where it is very much like Wal-Mart (WMT) and McDonald's (MCD). Neither of those companies is growing rapidly, but both dominate their industries, throw off huge amounts of cash each year, and have balance sheets that are the envy of most other large multinational companies...
...long-term antidrug strategy doesn't need the sort of hysteria that has had some in Washington comparing Mexico to failing states like Pakistan. "Obama needs to throw a bucket of cold water on that kind of rhetoric," says Tony Payan, a Mexico expert at the University of Texas at El Paso. "He needs a Mexico approach for the next 20 years, not 20 days." Mexico is making some progress. Juárez saw violence spike last year when at least three cartels started a pitched battle for its valuable trafficking turf. (Most of the drugs from Mexico enter...
...glucose in the blood and store it as fat. Insulin insensitivity is one of the first signs of diabetes. These subjects also gained more visceral fat, the dangerous kind that embeds itself between tissues in organs such as the heart and liver and secretes hormones and other chemicals that throw off the body's normal metabolism, setting the stage for atherosclerosis and heart attack. "This suggests that in the same way that not all fats are the same, not all dietary carbohydrates are the same either," says Peter Havel, professor of nutrition at the University of California Davis and lead...
...common refrain of revisionists is that Bush foolishly pursued “deregulation” by cutting taxes. They simply throw out the term “Bush tax cuts” followed by a non sequitur explaining why the economy is suffering. However, tax cuts are not deregulation. Deregulation implies a change in the rules and restrictions that structure markets, while tax cuts instead put money in the pockets of American consumers to use within the existing regulatory environment. Plus, not all deregulation is created equal: The poor accounting standards that led to the Enron scandal have nothing...
...meter with a time of 14:35.35, a full 12 seconds ahead of his closest competitor. Freshmen Justin Grinstead also performed well in the 400-meter hurdles, clocking in at 53.28 seconds to take first place. Junior Jack Brady recorded a personal best of 50.17 meters in the discus throw to move into 10th all time in the Harvard record books.But while many members of the team had outstanding individual performances, it wouldn’t be all fun and games for the Crimson men. With many of Harvard’s male athletes injured, it would have been difficult...