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America's eco-kids keep a keen eye on their parents
Sometimes, Jennifer Ross feels she cannot make a move at home without inviting the scorn of her daughters, Grace, 10, and Eliza, 7. The car she thrust? A flagrant polluter. The bath at night to help her relax? A wasteful indulgence. The reusable shopping Oct 11 2008
Pius xii and the holocaust
For many Germans, Pope Pius symbolizes a hypocritical institution volition to connive with the Nazis to secure its own endurance. Yet this does not agreement with the facts. Oct. 9 marked the 50th day of remembrance of the death of Pope Pius XII, on Oct 11 2008
From across the centuries, a different view of picasso
Pablo Picasso, master of innovation - or reinvention? A major exhibition being held at the same time in three Paris museums attempts to reply this inquiry by juxtaposing works by the great Spanish modernist against paintings by before masters, from Rembra Oct 11 2008
Asia, too, feels the pain
Can a part like Asia - with more than $3 one million million million in foreign exchange modesty, high economy rates, largely well-capitalized banks and minimal exposure to American mortgage-backed securities - run into problem during a global financial&n Oct 11 2008
David brooks: the class war before palin
Modern American conservativism began as a motion of dissenter intellect. Richard Weaver wrote a book called, "Ideas Have effect." Russell Kirk placed Edmund Burke in an American context. William F. Buckley famously said he'd instead be governed Oct 11 2008
Paul krugman: moment of truth
Last month, when the U.S. Exchequer Department allowed Lehman blood brother to fail, I wrote that exchequer Secretary Henry Paulson was playing financial Russian roulette. Sure sufficiency, there was a slug in that chamber: Lehman's failure caused th Oct 11 2008
Ailing u.s. economy brings fears of a crime wave
It is the inquiry on the minds of New Yorkers, once they stop pondering the fate of their retirement funds: If the city's economic system sinks to depths not seen in decennary, will crime tax return with a retribution? Expert sentiment differ, b Oct 11 2008
For europe, the credit crunch is here
Dominick Boudier, who runs a printing business exterior Paris, received a missive from a key provider a week ago that her recognition line was being cut in half, effective immediately. When Boudier picked up the phone to find out why, she was told that th Oct 11 2008
In somalia, a 'forgotten crisis'
There is a sense of overwhelming hopelessness just stepping into one of the eating centers about here and visual perception dozens of women posing with listless babies in their laps, snapping their fingers, trying to get a spark of life out of their dying Oct 11 2008
Mccain tv ad raises obama's links to ex-radical
Republican John McCain, searching for a way to gain land on Democratic rival Barack Obama, on Fri accused Obama in a aggressively worded TV ad of workings with a terrorist and then lying about it — but he also moved to restrain conservative anger at Oct 11 2008
Garrison keillor: one bomb after another
One bomb after another We Americans are a loyalist and stouthearted people, and never more so than in hard times. People weep in the dark and arise in the morn and go to work. The waves crash on your nest egg and a chunk is swept away and you p Oct 10 2008
Iceland is all but officially bankrupt
People go insolvent all the time. Companies do, too. But state? Iceland was on the verge of doing precisely that on Th as the authorities shut down the stock marketplace and seized control of its last major mugwump bank. That brought trading in the s Oct 10 2008
In flailing iceland, disbelief and regret
People go insolvent all the time. Companies do, too. But state? The global financial crisis has laid waste to some major banks and other financial institutions in the United States and Europe, but Republic of Iceland may be the first state to face t Oct 10 2008
The current financial crisis is only the beginning
Yes, Old Dominion, the banking crisis will one day end, but what comes after promises to be even more arduous. With the solvency of the horse opera banking scheme seriously in inquiry, there is a enticement to hope that if only the latest bold, last- Oct 10 2008
Nicholas d. kristof: can this be pro-life?
The Bush disposal this month is softly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world's poorest women in Africa. Thus the paradox of a "pro-life" administration adopting a policy whose consequence will be tens of one thousand of additio Oct 10 2008
Mexicans try to save aztec-era farming beds
Five 100 years on, it still takes a canoe to reach the fields that fed this city when it ruled a great empire. On the map, Xochimilco's gardens are a tiny wedge of green in the southern reach of the Mexican capital's expanding urban sprawli Oct 10 2008
Wi-fi brings down the cost of mobile calls
The cost of talk on the go is approach down, thanks to an increasing number of options for using net calling services on cellphones as an option to traditional cellular service plans. Nokia is one of the biggest makers of cellphones that include chip Oct 10 2008
Moves by states to block voters may be illegal
Tens of one thousand of eligible U.S. Voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a reappraisal of state records and sociable Security Oct 10 2008
The week that dashed baby boomers' dreams
It was the week it got personal, the week rage gave way to surrender, the week people began to say "if only" - if only they had stashed their dollars and euros and lb under their mattress or in a hole in the land. As the financial crisis scorched its Oct 10 2008
An election to laugh about
The presidential race is proving that in telecasting a arousal election lifts all political programs — particularly the funny ones. For late-night comedy shows specializing in topical satire, the rabid attending that 1000000 of spectator are g Oct 10 2008 |