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It's no accident that the social democracies - Sweden, France and Germany, who kept on paying high wages - now have more industry than the United States or the UK. During the '70s, '80s and '90s, the Anglo-Americans, the neoliberals, The Economist crowd, and the press generally, would taunt the social democrats in Europe: "You'd better break the unions." That's the way to save your industry. Even in 2008, precisely because of "globalization," Germany had a serious shortage of people able to fill high-skill, highpaying jobs, especially engineers. In the United States, engineers complain they can't find work; many of them just end up in sales. In the union-free, lower-cost United States, we don't create the kind of jobs engineers can do. Germany's problem? It has too many such jobs. It's ...

• In These Times
• August 02, 2010

• What do we learn about the early Kharijites and Ibadiyya from their coins?

Keith Lewinstein observes that the study of Islamic sectarianism is uncomfortably wedded to medieval heresiography. (1) This uneasiness stems, in part...

• The Journal of the American Oriental Society
• Vol. 130 Nbr. 2, April 2010

• Homeowners Should Learn Basic Skills

There are some skills every homeowner should master. You don't need to run out and learn them all immediately, of course. But you'll appreciate them -- and save yourself lots of money.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• March 29, 2008

• Penalty Clauses in Testaments: What Louisiana Can Learn from the Common Law

Introduction. II. Background. A. Roman Law: The Birth of the Modern Civil Law Approach. B. French Law: Focus on the Underlying Disposition. III. Louisiana's Approach And Its Problems. A. Determining Whether the Suit Is a Contest. B. Ascertaining the Testator's Intent. C. Exceptions to the Rule of Validity. D. The Effect of Invalidating the Penalty Clause. E. The Problem of Validity and Enforceability. F. The Confusion of Louisiana's Approach and the Need to Find a Solution. IV. Common Law Approach And History. A. British Common Law: The Emergence of the Good Faith, Probable Cause Exception. B. The American Common Law History. C. The American Common Law Today. V. Solution For Louisiana: A Framework For Analysis Of Penalty Clauses. A. Step One: Determining Whether the Lawsuit Is a Cont...

• Louisiana Law Review
• Nbr. 70-4, July 2010

• The Facts About Fiction: What Grissom Could Learn About Forensic Psychology

The C.S.I. Effect Through a proliferation of forensic programs, from Law and Order to C.S.I, to Criminal Minds, the mass media have offered the public...

• Journal of Psychiatry & Law
• Vol. 37 Nbr. 1, April 2009

• Click & Learn

"We'll teach on land, on the Interne!, we'll teach at sea. Prett\> soon we'll be teaching in space." That's a quote from Dr. Larry Barton, presiden...

• Life Insurance Selling
• Vol. 85 Nbr. 4, April 2010

• Chefs Learn Butchers Craft On Their Own ; Trained Cooks Finding U.S. Culinary Education

Move with purpose, not to impress," the chef begins his tutorial. A smooth arc, slicing in a clean motion. Move the knife away from yourself, to the right of your hip. Exposing the pigs shoulder, teasing a flexible blade against the bone, Jason Story sets his feet just so. To his left stands a tentative, wide-eyed, would-be apprentice. Its after-hours on a weeknight in early April at Three Little Pigs Charcuterie & Salumi, the new charcuterie in Washington. Yet its spotless, cool workroom below hums with activity. The 27-year-old chef, who opened the small shop in March with his fiancee, chef Carolina Gomez, is midway through breaking down a 200-pound Old Spot from Evensong Farm in Sharpsburg, Md. After the evenings work, Story will spend days and weeks smoking, salting and curing pork...

• Charleston Daily Mail
• May 23, 2012

• Kindergarten Ready to Learn

DETROIT, Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Way for Southeastern Michigan today announced it has been awarded a $4 million grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service under its Social Innovation Fund (SIF) to accelerate and bolster its work in early childhood education. United Way is one of five 2011 Social Innovation Fund grant recipients. The Social Innovation Fund grant will provide $4 million in federal funding over two years and will be used to advance United Way's work in early childhood education, aimed at ensuring 80% of children in the region start . Currently, fewer than 50% of children in the region are kindergarten-ready. United Way uses evidence-based and transformative approaches to providing young children with the ...

• U.S. Newswire
• August 04, 2011

• The Sub-Prime Mortgage Debacle and What We Can Learn From Mathematical Programs

In this paper we discuss mathematical programming methods for insurance companies, mutual fund managers, and banks to match cash flow and liabilities. We focus on mortgage-backed securities, and methods for using them for asset allocation. Given the recent and ongoing sub-prime mortgage debacle, it is imperative that the conscientious and conservative investor use robust mathematical models to decide whether to hold or sell their current investments, or to invest in other portfolios, instead of making such decisions without careful consideration. We first discuss the difference between a deterministic and stochastic instrument, then describe a linear programming model for allocating bonds deterministically, and then, as in the case of mortgage-backed securities, stochastically.

• Review of Business
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 1, October 2008

• Letter: Will We Ever Learn?

WILL WE EVER LEARN? TV networks showed movies all day long on Memorial Day about World War II and the hardships suffered by the wonderful men who helped defeat two major powers of destruction, mayhem and murder. And I'm sure they didn't really tell the actual horror of it.

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• December 29, 2011