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...point I interview the head of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. This secret longing is no longer a secret to him. He's a sweet and thoughtful, intelligent guy, a schoolteacher, who?s already in mourning for the human race; he believes its gone wrong. We were great for a while, then we got too big and now we're eating up everything, and ultimately we're going to undermine ourselves, and the end is going to be agonizing. He said, "If we stopped having babies now, every decade as there were fewer people left, the world would become wilder...
...Park - a panoramic view he calls the most beautiful in the world - and describes the last time he exercised that skill. About a month ago, the CEO of Countrywide Financial, Angelo Mozilo, called him to ask for help. The beaten-down mortgage lender, whipping boy for everything that went wrong in last year's mortgage meltdown, was facing rumors of bankruptcy after burning through an $11.5 billion credit line. Lewis had already invested $2 billion of his company's money in Countrywide, a sum by then worth half of that, but he heard Mozilo out. "He just said...
...serious are the consequences likely to be? Much more could go wrong: a collapse of the dollar, or of U.S. consumer confidence as house prices continue their fall. But on balance, the denizens of Davos would be well advised to keep up their sunny spirits. Taking the long view, the global economy is at a remarkable moment. Whatever the chance of a recession this year, the U.S. has experienced what the economist and former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs John B. Taylor of Stanford University calls a "long boom" since the Fed started to squeeze inflation...
...free press and heading a regime that has been accused of murdering opponents and expropriating private property for the state. On the other hand, TIME loves to natter on about how Gitmo prisoners should be granted U.S. constitutional freedoms, privileges and rights because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time during a war. You have lost all perspective and are (quite literally) incredible. Paul Burich, Los Gatos, Calif...
...some student gets a totally hilariously wrong answer, then sometimes, completely anonymously, the TFs will copy that answer from the exam and send it around to the TFs,” said Kelly, whose 187-student class had its exam yesterday...