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...takes truly magical thinking to imagine we will keep resolutions that experience suggests are impossible: to live greener, fit into a size 4, learn Chinese. One study found that nearly a quarter of us lapse within a week, the vast majority before the year is out. Since human frailty is a law of nature, states are compensating with some rules of their own--what are laws if not expectations carved in stone? As of the New Year, you can no longer text-message while driving in Washington State. North Carolina bar owners have to recycle their bottles, and politicians have...
...leader I've seen who excites the Russian people. Regardless of the criticisms relating to limits on political opposition, human rights and freedom of the press, Russia is a better place for the Russian people since Putin came to power. A major reason is that better management of its vast resources has produced economic growth. We Americans typically don't like other countries stepping up toe to toe with us, and certainly Putin has ruffled many U.S. feathers. It would be good if the American people could look past their indignation at the situation in Russia and better understand...
...idea - a bit cruel since you already have so many monopolies and such a vast empire - of headlining the death of French culture. Of course it's an exaggeration, as you know. Imagine if a French weekly had marked the death of the great writer Norman Mailer with a cover story entitled "The Death of American Culture...
...groomed landscapes at Kew, the Royal Botanic Gardens on the outskirts of central London, but the backdrop of grassy slopes and monumental trees turns out to be just the right fit for Moore's work, which can seem both powerfully natural and shrewdly cultivated. For "Moore at Kew," the vast show that opened there in September and remains through the end of March, 27 of his large bronzes and one massive figure in white fiberglass have been set to advantage all around Kew's elegant acreage. Silhouetted against Kew's white pavilions and specimen plantings, his massive Double Oval from...
...rest who are at the "bottom of the pyramid" or BOP, in Bijapurkar's shorthand. However, though its members earn less than a dollar a day, the BOP also forms a significant consumer base, says Bijapurkar, and businesses like microfinance have successfully tapped this segment. Indeed, Bijapurkar says, the vast majority of Indian consumers may have limitations but they also have huge potential: low education is matched by high exposure to what's available in the marketplace, thanks to the satellite TV and Internet boom; low incomes are, in the meantime, matched by high aspirations thanks to a liberalization-based...