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One Year On: Lessons of the Global Recession

By MICHAEL SCHUMAN

The recession is easing, but there is still much to be learned from the Baltics, Ireland and Singapore

Midnight Snacks: More Fattening Than You Feared?

By SHAHREEN ABEDIN

A study in lab animals is the first to link the timing of meals to the degree of weight gain, supporting researchers' hunch: midnight snacks are particularly bad for your waistline.

Studies of the Arctic Suggest a Dire Situation

By BRYAN WALSH

Two studies of global warming in the Arctic suggest that the phenomenon is man-made and that it is happening much more quickly than scientists imagined.

Some Schools to Big Brother Barack: Stay Out!

By TIM PADGETT / MIAMI

The White House plan to have the President address schoolkids in a televised speech has stirred up conservative opposition everywhere — most fervently in Florida

Afghanistan Assassination: The Taliban's Big Get

By TIM MCGIRK / KABUL

The death of the country's deputy chief of intelligence complicates U.S. operations as well as the country's fractious ethnic politics

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By Michael Scherer

The fact that Van Jones appears to have espoused conspiracy theories about 9/11 seems to have changed the conversation.

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Top 10 Public-Service Announcements

A recent Welsh ad warning against texting and driving is a viral sensation, but it's got nothing on Smokey Bear and singing pills

Quotes of the Day

"We're likely on a path toward more than 10% unemployment. "
DEAN BAKER,
a director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, on Friday's unemployment report that the economy shed 216,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate hit 9.7%
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Why the Omens Are Not Auspicious for the Burma's Junta

By Hannah Beech

Two years after Burma's Buddhist monks marched for freedom and were brutally put down, one monastery still prays for liberation

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