Why NFL Draft Drives Economists Crazy With its fixed costs and hard-to-judge talent, the NFL Draft is a mess. Now some economists think they have a better way -- a type of auction that uses "market design."Read Article
The Big Jobs ShrugFor Wsahington, the unemployment crisis in America is about as important as a famine in Africa. By Jonathan Chait"I live in a Washington neighborhood almost entirely filled with college-educated professionals, and it occurred to me not long ago that, when my children grow up, they’ll have no personal memory of having lived through the greatest economic crisis in eighty years. It is more akin to a famine in Africa. For millions and millions of Americans, the economic crisis is the worst event of their lives. They have lost jobs, homes, health insurance, opportunities for their children, seen their skills deteriorate, and lost their sense of self-worth. But from the perspective of those in a position to alleviate their suffering, the crisis is merely a sad and distant tragedy."
McAfee 'captured on Belize-Mexico border' Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, wanted by authorities in Belize for murder, captured after weeks on the run, according to an entry on his blog.
How the horrors of war nearly destroyed me For 20 years, Peter Beaumont has reported for the Observer from some of the bloodiest war zones in the world. His new book, extracted below, is a disturbing and graphic examination of the psychology of killing, and a moving account of how the experience of witnessing such raw violence for so long finally took a heavy toll on his personal life Peter BeaumontThe Observer, Sunday 26 April 2009 Peter Beaumont has for 20 years reported from some of the world's most dangerous places. Here he reads from his book The Secret Life Of War, and talks to Tracy McVeigh about his experiences as a foreign correspondent for the Observer Link to this video War's most dreadful secret, banal and terrible at the same time, is not that men kill - that much is obvious - or even that many men enjoy their killing. That, too, has been well documented. It is more insidious than that. There exists a widespread envy of those who kill, and especially those who kill and kill again. There is a bitter resentment among men when others claim their kills, or their kills are denied. That deems some men "luckier" to have the opportunity to kill more than others.Soldiers bitching. Another outpost, infested with rats that crawl across useless ceiling ducts that are connected to nothing in a former police station half-ruined by a bomb. The talk is about the young Texan lieutenant who has just left to lead a Small Kill Team on an overnight ambush, palefaced and tired. Top of his class at school, the soldiers say with pride. From what…
