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...This information isn't complete or compelling enough to make predictions. Indeed, after the tumble its markets have already taken, China seems almost certain to join the losers bracket. Slowing global economic growth will likely be an overall drag on profits through the end of the year at least, and the Olympics effect, if any, will be too small to matter. Our survey found that the host nations that appeared to benefit were smaller countries like South Korea where Olympics spending seemed to have a meaningful impact on overall economic activity. But China is the world's fourth largest economy...
This year was supposed to be different. After Hurricane Katrina, melting ice caps and Gore's hit film, An Inconvenient Truth, the 2008 election seemed certain to serve up a real debate about America's role in cleaning up the planet...
...never got off the ground. "Based on where the campaign was financially, you knew at a certain point that it wasn't going to be the kind of online campaign that had been planned," said a former adviser to the McCain campaign...
There is a certain kind of person who takes pleasure in announcing that he doesn't own a TV. By doing so he implies that his personal life is so rich--so much richer than yours--that he doesn't have to entertain himself into oblivion every night, secretly fantasizing that he is the only man who could bring stability to Liz Lemon's turbulent romantic life on 30 Rock. I am such a person...
...caesarean sections. Rates of C-sections have been climbing each year in the past decade in the U.S., reaching a record high of 31% of all live births in 2006. That's a 50% increase since 1996. Around the world, the procedure is becoming even more common: in certain hospitals in Brazil, fully 80% of babies are delivered by caesarean. How did a procedure originally intended as an emergency measure become so popular? And is the trend a bad thing...