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...faster than many people expect. There will be a New Bhuj, a New Bachchau, a New Anjar. Today's rubble will be turned into tomorrow's construction material. Many of those who have been bereaved by the quake will also be enriched by the massive reconstruction effort. My own guess is that in 10 years the quake will have faded from public memory...
...near monopoly Lisa and millions of other anxious high school students face has been solidifying for more than half a century. At first blush, one would guess the companies that create and sell all these tests - the College Board and its spin-off, the ETS - would be shaken to their square roots by the latest rebellion against SATs. In truth, they should hardly notice. Both companies rely less and less on the SAT for income each year, and while the industry is becoming more competitive, the testing business as a whole is in the midst of a boom. The standards...
...hard to guess that in 1946, Kristol was young; the U.S. had just emerged triumphant from a terrible war; the Cold War had not yet set in, and - I'm guessing - perhaps much about the America of 1946 seemed more congenial to Kristol than much about the America of the Clinton...
...There are people working very hard on figuring out when the big one will happen. We can dig down and figure out when things were last disturbed in quake activity, and then develop probabilities based on those findings. But these are just probabilities - earthquake prediction, as you can probably guess, is not a precise...
...Which means this downturn/pre-recession ain't over yet, which means that Alan Greenspan will be cutting interest rates again, real soon. Probably before the March 20 Fed meeting, and probably by a quarter or half a percent, but that's still the part we guess about...