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...First mooted by economist Arthur Okun in 1962, the law (it's really more of a rule of thumb) says that when the economy grows, it produces jobs at a predictable rate, and when it shrinks, it sheds them at a similarly regular pace. It's a labor version of how the accelerator on your car works: add gas, go faster; less gas, go slower...
...deferentially aside. One does not get the sense that the sparseness of the secondary characters is simply a matter of avoiding lawsuits or friendly respect for privacy. It seems that, for Hoffmann, if the truth may also belong to someone else, he cannot presume to offer the definitive version and so will deliberately stray. He is fundamentally concerned with honest communication, and he beautifully distills the small revelations from the events of his particular life. To read “Curriculum Vitae” is to briefly shadow the patterns of a remarkable mind. When Hoffman’s Japanese...
...original version of the Sept. 11 news article "Mapping a Bird Brain in Japan" incorrectly stated that 50 college students participated in the RIKEN Brain Science Institute's internship program last summer. In fact, there were six college student interns...
...whole advertisement doesn’t really make logical sense. Together with this kind of degradation of women and whales, PETA has also begun creating it’s own viral videos. One of these, posted on FunnyorDie.com, is an interview starring Andy Dick as a cracked out version of Ronald McDonald. Though the primary target of the video is the fast food chain, there is still misplaced aggression toward innocent people--at one point comparing poultry factory workers to Oompa-Loompas followed by the line: “There are people who are obese, and they need their food...
...there, Quad residents -- Shuttleboy, your much needed travel companion, now has a talking version available for call. Of course, those of you who have mastered text messaging may not want to try the slightly more time-consuming phone call. However, since Shuttleboy's text messages have been dishing out error messages instead of shuttle times of late, you might want to pay attention...