* UN warns cuts, austerity will lead to stagnation, that stimulus is essential to high employment. * Anticipating China's Iceland movement is tough—compared to Japan's economy, is could be soon and steep. * Swiss canton has too many jobs, too much growth, no middle class, dumb low tax
Armed with personal histories and transfer credits, grads from ’88 to ’15 hold a fall-semester seminar on majors, dorms, and the types of roommates to avoid.
Popular science books are all well and good until they ask you to picture a hundred cats playing volleyball in the fourteenth dimension. Writing lessons for astrophysicists.
* Over a thousand homes in Texas destroyed by wildfires; 23 fires and counting. * The scandal around Chirac isn't about him skipping court for being sick; it's about French justice avoiding him for so long. * Teddy Wayne interprets Dick Cheney's post-9/11 dreams. * See
Marriage seems cool. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. A wise friend once gave me some advice: always do a background check.
Booker Prize-winner John Banville discusses writing crime novels under a pseudonym, hanging around with authors who own multiple homes, and why literature takes longer to produce than pulp.
* August becomes first month with no U.S. military deaths in Iraq since 2003. * Interpol chief says the web has replaced Afghanistan as terrorists' main training ground. * Hatfields and McCoys feuded from the Civil War until 1890, and again in 1947; but 9/11 brought them together. * Remnick: This
* How the CIA became a killing machine, with massive escalation in use of drones in recent years. * Tripoli security chief endured extraordinary rendition by U.S., torture, has no hard feelings. * Memos suggest China tried to sell Gaddafi arms, may be excluded from reconstruction. * China isn't letting up
A few days ago I awoke and tuned my transistor to WFAN. It was around 4:31 a.m. Lori Rubinson was hosting the call-in show. Immediately she went to a break. The advertisements were for: MJHS, Metropolitan Jewish Health System, a home health provider; Midas “total car care”
* Berlusconi calls Italy a "shitty" country that sickens him, and vows to leave. * Dutch game show pits failed asylum seekers in contest to show knowledge of Dutch culture. * Detailing those who gained from 9/11. * No guesses for when Gadhafi will show up at his vacation home, located
