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...best interests of anyone suffering under the weight of the recession is to get some legislation passed that at least gives the economy a chance to recover with government spending and jobs programs. The programs may be the wrong programs, but that is not something that is going to be known ahead of time. There are a number of gambles in the proposed federal budget and many of them will not pay off. Many of the plans that the Treasury has to improve bank balance sheets and lending will simply be a waste of money. There is no entirely convincing...
Before a recent visit to my dear old mum, I purchased The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell, a 992-page Nazi-palooza that, given the nearly 3-lb. weight of the new English translation, makes for an ideal Kindle selection. But when I got ready to buy it on Amazon, I blanched at the $16.19 price. Every Kindle text I've purchased since Amazon started selling the device in November 2007 has been $9.99. Indeed, that was one of the Kindle's main draws: you could buy books wirelessly, on demand and at a fraction of the cost of their...
...welcome home for the Jones brothers, but Dan and Bill faced the immediate challenge of fitting into a highly-structured program after largely self-coaching through high school.“It was a very big transition for us [to Division I swimming],” says Bill, citing weight training, two-a-day practices, and the large team format as college revelations. “Those three things, along with interactions with the coach really worked well, and we both dropped significant times.”As much as the Jones brothers gained from Harvard swimming, they also gave...
...density cholesterol, or HDL). Blood pressure and heart risk rose in step: for each 10 mm increase in diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number of the ratio), the risk of having heart failure in their 40s doubled. For each 5.7 increase in body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight and height, the risk of developing heart failure increased by 40%. And each 13.3 mg/dL drop in HDL levels also boosted the risk of heart disease...
...business community, for example, groans under the weight of health-care costs, and so it has a vested interest in the Administration's efforts at health-care reform. The same cannot be said for Obama's plans to cap carbon emissions, which many have argued will amount to an expensive new tax that businesses and consumers can ill afford during such hard times. (See how the U.S. can win the war against global warming...