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...released retrospective collection of 28 CDs will soon be followed by a new studio album. Being a minister, he says with a sly smile, should provide him with a rich vein of inspiration. "I have lots of new subjects for songs. I'm thinking of writing a song about Zero Hunger...
...This year, in order to comply with an order from Brussels to clean up its fiscal act, Germany has raised taxes. "It's stupid," says Jean-Paul Fitoussi, president of the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques, an economics think tank. "How can a country with zero growth implement a restrictive budget...
...mere blocks from the catastrophe, his story gives a first-hand account of the chaos visited on lower Manhattan that day. While there have been many memoir comix about 9/11 (see TIME.comix reviews: part one; part two), most of them recount the mediated experience of those outside of ground zero. "Tuesday" gives us the first detailed, longform story of living through that nightmarish experience...
...more confidence in myself." For those who want to go back, Corella says their wishes are considered, but the final decision rests with the school's administrators, the student's mental-health counselor, school-district officials and the probation officer. A 13-year-old boy who was expelled under zero-tolerance rules last June--he accidentally cut his best friend while playing with a pen knife at school--will return to his school district next fall because, Corella says, "he's a strong A student with no behavior problems, and his offense was minor." When a student has serious anger...
Throughout the '90s, data mining spread from one industry to the next, enabling companies to know more about customers' needs and to zero in on the characteristics that distinguish the customers they want from those they do not. A credit-card company using a system designed by Teradata, a division of NCR, found that customers who fill out applications in pencil rather than pen are more likely to default. A major hotel chain discovered that guests who opted for X-rated flicks spent more money and were less likely to make demands on the hotel staff, according to privacy consultant...