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Increased contraceptive use fueled a decline in the number of abortions performed worldwide from 1995 to 2003, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. The survey also found that abortion occurs about as often in countries where it is legal as in those that limit it. Since 1997, only three countries have tightened abortion restrictions, while 19 countries or regions have loosened them...
Reaction to the committee's choice has often been anything but peaceful. In 1973, Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho shared the award for negotiating a cease-fire that ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War--despite Kissinger's role in the secret bombing of Cambodia. (Tho rejected his award, the only person to do so, saying there was no peace in his country.) One Nobel Committee member resigned in protest over Yasser Arafat's 1994 win, calling the Palestinian leader a "terrorist." Even Joseph Stalin was nominated twice for his efforts to end World...
...subjects that lend themselves to empirical testing. His standard line is that he's not smart enough for macro. But he's been smart enough to avoid it - and to win, in 2003, the John Bates Clark Medal, an award for the top under-40 American economist that is often the precursor to a Nobel (no, he's not really a "rogue economist"). His work also caught writer Dubner's attention, which led to the 2003 article in the New York Times Magazine that spawned Freakonomics...
There are so many implausible things about Nashville's Kings of Leon that the band's implausible lyrics are often overlooked. But let's start there, because more than any other contemporary rock act, Kings of Leon write in the key of crazy. "Sex on Fire," the group's first major hit, has a chorus that goes, "You, your sex is on fire/ Consumed with what's to transpire"--a cheesy come-on followed by the warmth of legalese. The Kings' songbook also includes "Pistol of Fire" ("It's gonna tickle/ You're gonna giggle"), "Soft" ("I'd pop myself...
...Kings of Leon's previous work; it sounds like a band trying to fill stadiums, which happens to a lot of groups after stints opening for U2. But the Kings' mix of silly sex and deathly seriousness remains front and center, offering itself up to be mocked and--just often enough to make them interesting--believed...