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...What They're Naming in Australia: The decade is nearly over, and the world still hasn't reached a consensus on what to call the 2000s. But an Australian website has gotten a head start on naming the 2010s. In a contest that garnered more than 3,500 entries--including "Tenties" and Teenies"--News.com.au awarded nearly $2,000 to the person who suggested "One-ders." After the dreary decade we've suffered through, the judges said, the moniker's "bright-eyed optimism" was a welcome change...
Thanks for the essay on Glee and the critics who call it anti-Christian [Dec. 7]. The essay illustrates the high value of such stories for all of us--and shows that apparently twisted plots and odd characters can teach us more about life, love and the world than we would ever have imagined...
...front of a large wooden radio with columns like the Acropolis. You sat in the presence of radio, and you listened to it. Now you can pick it up and carry it. You can listen to anything you want, and the Internet brings radio anywhere around the world...
...people have left. The world calls to the people of Lake Wobegon, especially to the young. I don't know what it is, but they leave. All of the work that we put into raising them and educating them and instilling values of industry and loyalty and kindness--it all goes to benefit other parts of the country. It's a tragedy...
Nigeria matters. As oil-rich nations from Russia to Venezuela to Iran become ever more nationalistic and tighten their supplies of fuel, more high-quality oil discoveries are being made off West Africa's coast, giving the world a (usually) reliable new source of oil. The U.S. already imports 16% of its oil from Africa, according to the U.S.-based Energy Information Administration, and wants to raise that to 25% in the future. Nigeria holds by far the biggest reserves in Africa and supplies 8 to 10% of all U.S. oil imports, according to the EIA. But in recent years...