August 2010
142 posts
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“Mr Watanabe has calculated that the optimum time to buy an airline ticket is...”
– An economist calculates that buying your tickets too far in advance is a very bad thing to do.
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“Mexico’s death rate is bumped up by extraordinarily high levels of violence in...”
– According to our correspondent in Mexico, while the carnage in the country’s badlands is not to be underestimated, much of the nation is downright safe.
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“In the year 2054, the entire defence budget will purchase just one aircraft....”
– The spiraling costs of US combat aircraft were predicted as far back as 1983. As our briefing demonstrates, governments are having a hard time dealing with defence in a time of austerity.
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“As Cheuk Woon Yee Sinne took the field for a match in the Women’s Baseball World...”
– THE chance of being shot in Caracas may be higher than just about anywhere else in the world, outside war zones. The government thinks the press is to blame.
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“A recent study by the Pew Hispanic Centre found that 8% of births in America are...”
– Prominent Republicans have begun questioning America’s hallowed principle of birthright citizenship.
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“When they are lying, bosses avoid the word “I”, opting instead for the third...”
– Researchers reveal how to tell if your boss is lying.
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“What you have to do,” explained Franzen, “is you plug in an Ethernet...”
– Novelist Jonathan Franzen describes his unusual method for keeping the siren-song of the internet at bay. Please don’t do this on a work computer.
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“Most Americans know little or nothing of Mr Daniels. He does not tweet. “I’m not...”
– Indiana’s governor is an appealingly self-effacing sort. He might save the republicans from themselves.
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“In China, “Free Willy” is known as “A very powerful whale runs to...”
– Why are titles so hard to translate? Our correspondent in Mexico goes looking for a Spanish copy of “The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo” - and is surprised by what he finds.
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“As governor, Rod Blagojevich hid in the bathroom to avoid his budget director....”
– The trial of Illinois’s former governor confirmed some bizarre tales. Even his defense raised eyebrows, his lawyer’s courtroom style resembling that of an “apoplectic cabbie trained by Maria Callas.”
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“Nearly one in five exterminators have found bedbugs in office buildings in the...”
– One more thing to worry about: infestations of bedbugs in the workplace. The Economist’s offices, so far, seem unaffected.
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“In March, Yang Zhizhu was fired as a law lecturer in Beijing for having more...”
– Thirty years on, some want to scrap China’s repressive one-child policy. Yet the problem may be to get people to have more babies, not fewer.
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“In China and Poland people go to wind farms to have wedding pictures...”
– An advocate of wind farms explains why, really, no-one should mind having them in the backyard
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“Japanese salarymen, who were once regarded as modern-day samurai, are today...”
– Japan watches China’s economy whizz by 