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...However, Worth isn't the first magazine to cost $20 an issue. Many foreign fashion magazines hit that mark after being shipped to U.S. newsstands. Self Service, a scarily hip magazine out of France, is $75 an issue. A subscription to Visionaire, the biannual-or-so journal cum art book, is $675 for four issues. And then there's the bimonthly quantitative finance magazine Wilmott, which is $695 a year, or about $115 each...
...North Koreans go to flee oppression and famine suffered under a closed communist government. He had no immediate plans to return. The eventual author of “Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country”—a book that documents his time trafficking North Korean refugees through a 6,000-mile modern-day underground railroad—Kim trained part-time with Tae Kwon Do instructors in order to get a visa to live in China. Meanwhile, he devoted himself to the human rights efforts that would become...
...gone so well for me with women. Sure, I once reached first base on a balk, but I got out by a fielder’s choice. [4] College will go better now that I’m reinventing myself. I strut over to a girl, hit her book out of her hand and say, “Do you have any idea how many free t-shirts I got today?” She doesn’t respond, so I lean in and whisper, “Seven.” Yeah, we pretty much frenched...
...John Moody anticipated this problem when he published the first Moody’s Analyses of Railroad Investments in 1909. Moody prefaced the book with a note about its scope, cautioning that it was “in no sense a ‘manual’” and instead a tool to enable investors to “analyze the conditions back of all security values.” Like his future competitors, Moody specifically intended his credit ratings to enable analysis rather than be ends in themselves. Nonetheless, by 1970, when the firm switched...
...horde of analysts, and the investors they inform—and so does the solution. It evidences a broader issue that technology and innovation bring to all facets of life: carelessness. If you can find the answer by searching Google or glancing over a Wikipedia article, why read a book? If you can rely on a credible rating for a complex financial security, why do further research? In a narrow sense, the lack of context attendant in these bursts of data leads to small errors, and, on a broader scale, this limited scope contributes to major market failures...