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...somewhat in the first half of this year. But year-to-year numbers can be confusingly noisy; it's the trend that matters. Gordon, who doesn't buy that computers and the Internet are nearly as economically significant as cars, electricity and their ilk, thinks we're headed back toward the low pre-1995 productivity trend. The country's other most prominent productivity guru, Harvard's Dale Jorgenson, is more sanguine. He sees large swaths of the economy - health care, education, government - still waiting to be transformed by information technology and expects that to bring us another decade of high...
...began discussing a new $150 billion stimulus plan focused on helping individual households. "I think the focus is shifting," says Gene Sperling, a former economics advisor to President Clinton who now advises Senator Barack Obama. "Pretty soon, I think we are going to see measures that are more targeted toward homeowners than we have seen...
...work is geared toward two things,” Leibensperger said. “I want to make sure that what we’re doing is the right thing and that what we’re doing is enough...
...America, it seems, this paradigm holds true. The study suggests that while many girls have exceptional talent in math—the ability to become recognized math researchers, scientists, and engineers—they are rarely encouraged or applauded in the United States. Indicative of this American apathy toward math is the demographic evidence—the study’s data shows that girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued. American schools can, and should, improve the academic stature of math, thereby...
...sovereignty by not immediately protesting UNESCO's decision. Samak resigned last month, and his successor, who hails from the same political party, will surely be accused of similar weakness if Thailand's troops don't match Cambodian numbers. On Wednesday, Thailand's military T.V. network showed Thai tanks rumbling toward the border region, and one officer has said the country is prepared...