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We’re shrinking. After years of mildly reassuring numbers tracking the size of newspaper newsroom staffs, the latest American Society of Newspapers Editors’ annual census leads with a bombshell. Fulltime professional news staffs fell by 2,400 last year, a drop of 4.4% to a total of 52,600.Gangrey

In a study released last August, University of Washington researchers found that babies between 8 and 16 months recognized an average of six to eight fewer words for every hour spent watching videos.Susan Jacoby, in The Dumbing Of America

The operation, which senior Iraqi officials had been signaling for weeks, is considered so important by the Iraqi government that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, who went to Basra on Monday, intended to personally direct the fighting, several Iraqi officials said.NY Times

We’re exposing parts of the capital markets that most of us had never heard of
Ethan Harris, a top Lehman Brothers economist.

So while language isn’t a requirement for all thought, it most definitely appears to be a requirement for some thought.
Newton, A.M., Villiers, J.G. (2007). Thinking While Talking: Adults Fail Nonverbal False-Belief Reasoning. Psychological Science, 18(7), 574-579. Cognitive Daily.

“The extent of de-leveraging involves a wholesale destruction of credit. The risk is that the ’shadow banking system’ completely collapses.”
For the first time since this Greek tragedy began, I am now really frightened.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor, The Telegraph

Does Britannia, when it sleeps, dream? Is America her dream?Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, Chapter 34, pg. 345

I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.
Caroline Kennedy, endorsing Barack Obama.

When you come into my office, please take a look at the beautiful painting of a horseman determinedly charging up what appears to be a steep and rough trail. This is us. What adds complete life to the painting for me is the message of Charles Wesley that we serve One greater than ourselves. George W. Bush