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            Israel’s Undersea Gas Bonanza May Spur Mideastern Strife
Egypt’s decision last month to stop selling natural gas to Israel could be a harbinger of increasingly confrontational Egyptian-Israeli relations, an indication of a worsening Egyptian economy, or both.

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Sources: The Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census 
            Jobs Vary by State, Showing Why Education Matters
Friday’s state-level employment figures remind us that this economic recovery, like the recession that preceded it, is astonishingly uneven across America.
Underwear Bombers Show Limits of TSA’s Groping
A few weeks ago, agents of the Transportation Security Administration assigned to Washington’s Reagan National Airport stopped my mother-in- law, a very nice and unthreatening 79-year-old who was in Washington to lobby on behalf of public libraries, and asked her an enormously rude question.
Romney Is About to Make Bush’s Health-Care Blunder
Mitt Romney, so long bedeviled by the politics of health care, may be about to make another serious mistake.
Hedge Funds Circle as Japan’s Asset Bubble Grows
It’s limbo, Japanese-style: How low can bond yields go without triggering a meltdown?
Romney Is Mormons’ Path to the Christian Mainstream
During the 2008 presidential primary race, evangelical stalwart Mike Huckabee darkly hinted that Mitt Romney might believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers. This time around, Romney is the featured graduation speaker at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. What changed?
Banking Burnouts Blow Away Myths of Wall Street Glamour
Ever since March, when the New York Times decided to make a cause celebre out of the resignation of Greg Smith, a vice president at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a cottage industry of first-person Wall Street departure stories has sprung up across the print media and blogosphere.