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However, the vast majority of spending is not going to victims themselves and is instead being spent “on their behalf” by officials who are confident that they know best. This gravy train—more than twice the inflation-adjusted size of the Marshall Plan—will please politicians (and their friends) but won’t actually help victims. Instead, the government should directly give victims money, allowing them to escape or rebuild the Gulf Coast as they see fit. The government should give victims vouchers and let the private market supply housing...
...Guess who?s having the last laugh? The scientists, who together proved that the vast majority of stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria-not stress, spicy food or alcohol-are officially Nobel Laureates. In awarding the prize today, the Nobel committee commented that the pair had fundamentally altered the scientific view of a disease that affects up to five million people in the U.S. each year. Asked how winning the Nobel Prize would affect his future, Warren replied with a West Australian?s typical laconic self-deprecation: "Yeah, we'll have to come to Sweden...
...likely to buy whole collections - even an entire museum - as a single work of art. One of the 5,000 pieces he brought back, a bronze Japanese buddha, was so enormous that he built an elegant Paris residence around it. For years, Cernuschi allowed visitors to see his vast collection by special request. Before his death in 1896, he bequeathed the building and its contents to his adopted city, which made it a public museum. That Japanese buddha now reigns over a newly renovated Musée Cernuschi. After nearly a century of refining and adding to Cernuschi's acquisitions...
...lacking even on whether Merkel or Schrder would be chancellor. All in all, Germanys present direction is uncertain at best, and when this muddle is over, it will be close to impossible for any party to address the political and economic issues. Given the countrys stature within the vast economic and political space of Europe, no news from Germany today is bad news indeed...
Most people see the queer rights movement as having nothing whatsoever to do with poverty. While queer rights are vitally linked to issues of poverty and race, there is good reason for this misconception: the vast majority of the most visible leaders of the queer-rights movement have been wealthy, white, and male. But the fact that this phenomenon exists is itself an illustration of why poverty and race are such important problems for queer communities in America. The reason the vast majority of the most visible leaders of the queer rights movement—and the most prominent queer...