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Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Indispensable Dispenser
WASHINGTON -- "Last year," Ryan Bingham says, "I spent 322 days on the road, which means that I had to spend 43 miserable days at home." Home is an Omaha rental unit less furnished than a hotel room. He likes it that way. Today he is where he feels at home, in an airport -- glass walls and glistening steel, synthetic sincerity and antiseptic hospitality.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Climate Hubris
Climate change is one of those issues I know enough about to know how little I really know. And I certainly haven't learned much more during the 193-nation climate talks that concluded in Copenhagen this week. I'm one of those agnostics willing to accept evidence that the earth is warming but not yet convinced that scientists fully understand why. And my skepticism has grown greater in light of the recent climategate scandal involving leaked e-mails that suggested prominent climate-change scientists have manipulated data and tried to stifle dissent in the scientific community.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Economics 101: How Little They Know
Has the recession ended? Yes, says Larry Summers, the president's top economic adviser and a former secretary of the Treasury. He told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, "Everybody agrees that the recession is over." No, says Christina Romer, who heads the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
