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...public sector, he said, reduced public support and state funding for higher education lead to large fee hikes...
...when we hit retirement, at age 40? We can try to relive our glorious twenties. Buy a nicer car, nicer house, nicer jet... But creaky bones and kids will get in the way of the monthly bungee jump. The dream of living a second, more exciting life post-financial sector seems impractical. At the age of 21 you chose the safe route to Wall Street. Is it plausible to assume that this same person will choose the adventurous path when they have a spouse, a mortgage and college tuition bills to worry about? A conservative at 20 does not become...
...vetted before airing. (And why? Would it have killed us to have somebody ask George W. Bush if he snorted coke off a stripper's naked belly, or ask Al Gore if he shot Vincent Foster?) And sure, the questions, coming from "undecided" voters, by their nature represented a sector of the populace that hasn't paid enough attention in a year and a half of politicking to make up their damn minds already...
...progressive" economists dubbed "a new attack on poverty." Big businesses were prodded to keep wages high, resulting in massive, intractable unemployment. The infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff was enacted, leading to the implosion of international trade. And tax rates were hiked drastically on both incomes and profits, driving the private sector ever further into...
Over in the private sector, Netpreneurs are trying to tap into the same community computing power for commercial purposes, selling it to industries in dire need of supercomputer muscle. One lucrative market: biotechs and pharmaceuticals trying to analyze data from the Human Genome Project. "The genome is so huge, and it takes so long to analyze even a single protein, that there's no way to do it without resorting to some sort of distributed computing," says Vijay Pande, who runs Folding@home...