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We all know that water is good for us, but often the reasons are a little fuzzy. And even if we know why we should drink water, it’s not a habit that many people form. But there are some very powerful reasons to drink lots of water every day, and forming the habit isn’t hard, [...]

Filed under: Dancing with the Stars When you wake up Monday morning to read the list of “stars” who will be on next season’s “Dancing With the Stars” … Paula Abdul’s name will not be on it. Sources close to Paula tell TMZ the former “American Idol” judge has decided against doing the … Permalink [...]

Here is a nice piece by Vivek Wadhwa in TechCrunch.  Some excerpts: Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made. And they aren’t anything like you think they are. My team surveyed549 successful entrepreneurs. We found that the majority didn’t have entrepreneurial parents. They didn’t even have entrepreneurial aspirations while going to school.  VP of Research, Bob Litan, says [...]

If there’s one thing that last year’s election protests in Iran taught the American public, it’s that rarely is the conventional narrative the only one, or indeed the most important. Until the riots broke out, there was an implicit assumption that if Iran could elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, then your average Iranian had very little, to [...]

Hao Jin submits: Last Wednesday the markets were comforted by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments that the US economy is in a nascent recovery that requires interest rates to be kept low. Banks are breathing a sigh of relief that the recent rise in the discount rate will not lead to a significant rate increase. [...]

Kimball Corson submits: Beginning toward the end of 2009, money has begun tightening, despite the Fed earlier pushing interest rates to almost zero percent, making loans readily available to key players and purchasing more than $1.7 trillion in mortgage loans and Treasuries. The banks of course remain busy trading on their own accounts instead of [...]

From Al Gore’s article “We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change” in today’s NY Times: “It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. Of course, we [...]

Pictures from the Boston Globe. HT: Paul Kedrosky Go to Source

Rescuers raced against the clock as quake victims trapped in a toppled apartment block early Sunday even as looters stole food and robbed banks after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile. Go to Source

Senate maneuver would allow Democrats to move forward on costly budget items in health care overhaul but would eliminate popular reforms like pre-existing conditions• Pelosi: Pass Health Bill, Even If It Means Your Job• Pelosi Calls Tea Partiers ‘Astroturf’ Go to Source