that stubborn monthly balance on the credit-card bill. For the average American family, it’s been growing steadily over the past few decades, lurking like a visitor who’s overstayed his welcome – and no one knows quite how to get rid of him. Somehow, people have drifted away from the thriftiness that emerged from the Great ...
What it reminds me of is Richard Nixon, the Checkers speech or some of the stuff during Watergate,’ said Steven Cohen, a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. But he saw already the contrast in the words spoken by the governor and at least some of the reasons for ...
Google’s caching system offers several cool features; one of most useful is that the words you searched for are highlighted in the page. Most web users don’t read pages carefully — they scan text for what they’re looking for. This is why Google’s cached-page highlighting is so useful. When the page is rendered, users don’t ...
This fall, there are just under 200 new undergraduate majors in MIT’s electrical engineering and computer science department, down from about 240 last year and roughly 385 three years ago. The Rutgers University computer science department has canceled some course sections and expects total enrollment in classes in the major this year to be thousands ...
‘Judge me by my record,’ John Kerry told voters during his acceptance speech in Boston last month, but he gave them precious little evidence to go on. In a 5,000-word address that stretched on for nearly an hour, Kerry managed to find time for only 73 words about his two decades of service in the ...
Debt meets middle-class life
Aug
17
2004
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