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...find it interesting to read how, because of new economic necessity, many people are acquiring food and homekeeping practices that rural folk have followed for years. Growing produce, buying half of a steer and raising chickens or bees are being described in such terms, one would think the wheel had been reinvented. My family has kept two freezers for years: one for meat and one for the fruits and vegetables we raise. This has enabled us to survive raising four children in a rural economy. I am finally able to tell my children that they never realized their old parents...
...reporters interview regular folk on the streets and in the parks for very much the same sound bites. Khastekonande, says one person, describing the protests as "getting old." Says another: "I'm a businessman. For my business to succeed, I need for there to be calm." "We just wanna make some bread, take care of our lives and our business." "The ones who are rioting aren't of the people. I don't think that they're part of the people." "It's been several days that I haven't been able to bring my son and daughter...
Horror on the Doorstep In another country, reports of elected representatives milking their expenses might send folk on to the streets to burn a few cars. Britons are angry - you only need to drop the word politician into a conversation to discover just how furious they are - but their anger is of the slow-burning, passive-aggressive variety of a people who wear socks with sandals. All the mainstream parties encountered hostility on the doorstep as they campaigned for last week's elections, but Labour, as the party of government, was perceived to carry the heaviest responsibility. "When we talk...
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have never heard of the Swedish folk-rock band Peter, Bjorn and John; and those who already find their 2006 hit single "Young Folks" incredibly passé. Today's viral culture moves from one niche or fad to another with such fleeting attention that bands, people, websites, video clips - basically, anything made popular by the Internet - can rocket from nothing to everything and back again within months...
Never before have so many experts and ordinary folk been so busy trying to gauge the timing and strength of the eventual worldwide economic rebound. One of the best indicators is found in the shipping industry. It's global in scope and ever more indispensable in an economy so reliant on international commerce. Not surprisingly, perhaps, there is new evidence out on the open seas that both the bears and bulls can flag to help make their respective cases. (See TIME 100 panelists discuss what's next for capitalism...