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...especially among minorities), which is needed to prepare Americans for the 21st-century jobs that will lead us out of recession. Private health care and Medicare benefits also increased substantially under President Bush. Incidentally, they are the reason that wages, which are only part of employee compensation, were supposedly stagnant under his administration. Productivity expanded, in part because Bush avoided dangerous policies like card-check, which President Obama, in the middle of a recession, now foolishly advocates. Finally, the administration’s efforts on climate change resulted in 2006 in the first decline in carbon emissions...
...Statham, 36, was an Olympic diver for the British team, and a model, before appearing in two early Guy Ritchie crime movies a decade ago. Since then, he's established himself in a couple of franchises: Transporter (three films) and Crank (two; but if the grosses stay this stagnant, don't count on a third). He's manfully filled the B-movie action slots once occupied by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal. His movies generally pull first-weekend numbers in the teen-millions and end up in the $25-40 million domestic range - not bad for productions that...
...find it almost impossible to follow. The colors and sounds wash over us like the light of a fluorescent aquarium, the kissing faces and front doors, the rows of lockers and holding hands. We can’t separate one from another. We bob in the sweet-smelling, stagnant water of scrawled notes and abrupt breakups and triumphant, temporary reconciliations. Kids about my age sitting on logs in the breathy woods, looking out among the trees and then over at one another, with a sigh.At one moment, after six or seven episodes, I catch a glimpse of the sun shining...
...they thought about the war. As Bachmann’s mental state deteriorates, so does the language of novel, and by the end, Lind mires his characters in a bog of metaphors and fleshy images. It is ultimately Lind’s subtle touch that renders this kind of stagnant illness and sparse landscape unique and full, and his grace as a writer that transforms the atrocities of war into poignant and stirring depictions of human nature pushed to its limit.—Staff writer Jenny J. Lee can be reached at jhlee@fas.harvard.edu...
...things up and challenge a few assumptions. But how much shaking does it take? As it turns out, not much. According to a new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the mere presence of a newcomer in any group may be all it takes to turn stagnant thinking into fresh thinking and bad ideas into good ones. (See pictures of office cubicles from around the world...