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10:29 pm, Jan. 27, 2012 34° FairHigh: 42° Low: 33°Full forecast | Web cam Welcome, Guest | Register | Sign In Archives News Sports Opinion Work Play Life More + Obituaries Classifieds Jobs Homes Autos Coupons Home Work @Business_Herald RSS Published: Friday, January 27, 2012 Tax reform not enough to solve cultural inequality By James McCusker, Herald Columnist advertisement | your ad here Simple theories and explanations are more likely to be right than complicated ones. That’s what William of Occam (or Ockham) told us over six centuries ago, and our experience since then has most often proved him right. … more…
OCCUPY WALL STREET
Occupy Wall Street From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the protests in New York City . For the wider movement, see Occupy movement. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia’s quality standards. (Consider using more specific cleanup instructions.) Please help improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. (January 2012) Occupy Wall Street Part of the Occupy movement Adbusters poster promoting the start date of the occupation, September 17, 2011. Date September 17, 2011 – ongoing (4 months, 1 week and 3 days) Location New York City Status Ongoing Causes Wealth inequality, … more…
CHINA’S FINANCIAL MANIPULATION
Charlie Rose Talks to Gary Locke The U.S. Ambassador to China reflects on currency manipulation, human rights, and the value of 160,000 visiting students By Charlie Rose inShare E-mailPrint RELATED ITEMS Audio: Excerpt from Gary Locke Interview LAST WEEK January 23, 2012 Iraq: Under Worse Management PreviousNext “With the Arab Spring, the Chinese leaders are very fearful of something similar happening” Photograph by Keith Bedford/Bloomberg How much censorship is there in China today? A lot. The topics that people try to engage in, talking about Taiwan or Tibetans, will be censored. But the people are very creative, and the censors … more…
COAL ON THE DESCENT
American coal A burning issue Tighter regulation, bountiful natural gas and declining installation costs for renewable energy herald the end of America’s coal era Jan 28th 2012 | HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY | from the print edition A FREIGHT train, its dozen cars loaded with coal covered in a light dusting of snow, snaked through the narrow valley, sometimes following the two-lane highway and sometimes crossing it. The valley was silent and snowy, and though it was two days into 2012 it could easily have been 1982, 1942 or 1922: coal has been mined in Appalachia and carried out by rail … more…
STATE CAPITALISM
Going abroad The world in their hands State capitalism looks outward as well as inward Jan 21st 2012 | from the print edition IT IS FITTING that China’s national symbol should be an animal that spends 16 hours a day eating bamboo. China is an energy panda that is obsessed by the question of where its next mouthful of bamboo will come from. The Chinese elite sees the world in terms of brutal competition for limited resources. And it has no truck with Western ideas about relying on the market. (“Western countries can feel secure purchasing oil internationally because they … more…
AMERICA’S BAND RECORD
The Beach Boys continue to hold Billboard / Nielsen SoundScan’s record as the top-selling American band for albums and singles, and they are also the American group with the most Billboard Top 40 chart hits (36). ‘Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys’ is fast approaching triple-Platinum sales status, and ‘The SMiLE Sessions,’ released to worldwide critical acclaim in November, has been heralded as 2011′s #1 Reissue of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and recipients of The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, The Beach … more…
TOP 10 HITS OF THE 1970′S
1970 1. Layla – Derek and the Dominos 2. Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel 3. Let It Be – The Beatles 4. Your Song – Elton John 5. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine – James Brown 6. Lola – The Kinks 7. Who’ll Stop the Rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival 8. Fire and Rain – James Taylor 9. Paranoid – Black Sabbath 10. All Right Now – Free 1971 1. Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin 2. Imagine – John Lennon 3. What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye 4. Let’s Stay Together – … more…
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Associated Press From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Associated Press Type Not-for-profit cooperative Founded May 1846[1] Headquarters New York City, New York, United States Area served Worldwide Key people Tom Curley, President and CEO Industry News media Products Wire service Revenue US$631 million (2010)[2] Operating income US$14.7 million (2010)[2] Net income US$8.8 million (2010)[2] Employees 3,700 Website www.ap.org AP headquarters at 450 West 33rd Street, New York City The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the … more…
CHEVY GOES SMALL
Chevy Takes a Bigger Stake in the Small-Car Market A sportier Sonic and two small-car concepts unveiled in Detroit let everyone know it means business. By Kirk Bell of MSN Autos Share161 100 2013 Chevrolet Sonic RS Chevrolet has been expanding and revamping its presence in the small-car market for the past couple of years with impressive vehicles such as the Cruze and the Sonic. Here at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Chevy is furthering its small-car agenda with a sportier version of the already-sporty Sonic, as well as two concept cars aimed at meeting the … more…
FERRIS BUELLER IS BACK
Matthew Broderick dusts off Ferris Bueller for Super Bowl ad Jan. 26, 2012, 4:11 PM EST By Tim Kenneally TheWrap Can anybody tell us which product or service Matthew Broderick will be shilling on Super Bowl Sunday? Bueller? Bueller? While the specifics are unclear, a teasing little snippet of a video indicates that Broderick will be reprising his title role from the 1986 John Hughes classic “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” for a Super Bowl commercial. In the maddeningly enticing preview, Broderick, who turns 50 on March 21 (feel old yet?), mimics the opening of his breakthrough film by pulling open … more…
