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...those looking to such a tax to protect against future calamities, there's even more disappointment. Squeezing the volume of financial trading wouldn't have done much to tackle the eye-watering debts and shoddy risk assessment at the oversize banks that got us into the current pickle. That job falls to regulators. Moreover, evidence of the impact of transaction charges on the volatility of assets is mixed: buyers in Britain's housing market - which, like many others around the world, cratered in 2007 - have been required to pay a transaction tax on their purchases for years. (Read...
...entries especially caught her eye: a man who had done the most number of cartwheels in an hour, and another who had the most number of snails stuck to his face for 10 seconds. But though she had some gymnastics experience, she did not feel up to the challenge of doing over 1,000 cartwheels. And she did not “want to be known as the girl who stuck snails to her face...
...armada of eco-friendly river running pods, the trustees do have a loosely established method of judging applications. According to trustee Matthew Y. Blake ’08, the foundation seeks crazy or eccentric ideas that have never been done before and that will catch the public eye and make an impact.“We aren’t going to give you a thousand bucks to build a sweet-ass thing in your living room and never show it to anyone,” says Blake.Josh Gordonson, a sophomore at MIT and the winner of October?...
...mind escaped from the closed circuit, which was what the practice of academic philosophy amounted to: made free of the open air, it breathed deeply and took on new strength. Like a townsman let loose in the mountains, I made myself drunk with the open spaces, and my astonished eye could hardly take in the wealth and variety of the scene.” Until the very end of his life, he battled base functionalist explanations for society in favor of grander, more overarching constructions...
...another in northeastern China, speeding along in a van traversing newly built highways. He gazed out at one of the world's biggest construction projects: a network of high-speed train lines - covering 10,000 miles (16,000 km) nationwide - that China is building. As far as the eye could see, there sat vast concrete support struts, one after another, exactly 246 ft. (75 m) apart. Each was full of steel cables and weighed about 800 tons. "We used to build stuff too," Maloney mused, unprompted. "But now it's NIMBY [not in my backyard] every time...