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...Mike Korth has a 1,000-acre (400 hectare) corn and soybean spread that would have been considered enormous a century ago but is now about average for the area. His township has only 39 families on 36 sq. mi. (94 sq km), a frontier-level population density. No wonder a Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City study found the rural counties most dependent on subsidies had the worst population losses and the weakest job growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Our Farm Policy Is Failing | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Massachusetts plan to be a role model for the rest of the country. "An individual mandate in most states today--in all states but one--would be irresponsible and unfair," Romney says. "Because in most states today, insurance is too expensive." It does seem fair, however, to wonder: What happened to that other Mitt Romney, the one who wouldn't be satisfied until he found the answer himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitt Romney's Defining Moment | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...something useful about academic writing and found the intellectual projects they undertook to be challenging and engaging. Many describe those assignments and the experience of the course to be the source of inspiration in considering a concentration. In fact, such is the ubiquity of these testimonials that we may wonder what fuels the urban myth to begin with, beyond the a priori stigma that adheres to a required course and—as CUE evaluations show—a minority’s negative experience of Expos...

Author: By Thomas R. Jehn | Title: Expos May Not Be Perfect, But It Serves A Critical Function | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...convict? The answers don’t really matter. For those who are entertained by Buddhist monks and brief-wearing Neanderthals, for those amused by priests rocking out to strobe lights and Native Americans dancing with dead animals (may they rest in peace), for all those who simply wonder why Sebastien is so cheap: This is the video for you. For all those who don’t fit those descriptions, I still suggest you at least take a look at this video and try to make some sense of its weirdness. The video follows Whiteman as he takes...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Apostle of Hustle | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Indeed, hedge funds in their original form were designed to reduce investment volatility by profiting in bear markets as well as bull. But some wonder if the industry is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success. The number of funds has swelled from 6,297 in 2003 to nearly 10,000 today, raising concerns that an influx of young, inexperienced managers will find it increasingly difficult to post market-beating returns. Managers charge a lot for their expertise - typically a 2% annual management fee plus 20% of profits. But with funds multiplying in both diversity and complexity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Way Out? | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

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