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COMMUNITY HALLOWEEN PARTY: 2 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 28, North Aurora Mothers Club, Fearn Elementary School, 1600 Hawksley Lane, North Aurora. Come in costume for games and prizes. Donation of anon-perishable food or household item requested. Free. Information: www.northauroramothersclub.org or 630-907-6008.GREAT PUMPKIN CONTEST, ninth annual, noon Oct. 27, Dundee Township Visitor’s Center, 319 N. River St., East Dundee. Largest pumpkin by weight, best decorated or carved pumpkin. Prizes. No entry fee. Entry deadline is noon Oct. 27. Information: 847-426-2255.HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE: 2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 31, Alden Courts, 1991 Randi Drive, Aurora. Games, cookie and pumpkin decorating, magician, taffy apples, apple cider, costume contest and trick-or-treating offered. Free. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
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CAN real consumption inequality decline even as income inequality increases? The Economics Focus piece in the current edition of the newspaper argues that it can and has. Paul Krugman's emphatic rejoinder on his New York Times blog fails entirely to join this issue, despite his table-thumping rhetoric. What Mr Krugman does do is to gesture toward nominal consumption inequality numbers that he prefers over those offered by Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri, professors of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota respectively, who he seems to think are guilty of "the misuse of the Consumer Expenditure Survey." But this is, as Mr Krugman recognises, "a narrow technical issue." More importantly, it is mostly beside the point of the piece he is criticising, which is this: But consumption numbers, too, conceal as much as they illuminate.
McCain, 71, cancer survivor, stresses judgment in answering questions ...
The questions are posed again and again because of McCain's age and his three bouts with melanoma, an aggressive and potentially deadly form of skin cancer. It came up Saturday in a newspaper endorsement from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Despite its approval, the newspaper said, "we also have concerns about Mr. McCain's age (he will be 72 at the time of the Republican convention) and his health. ... That would make his choice of a running mate a matter of even greater national concern." If elected, McCain would be the oldest man to become president of the United States; Ronald Reagan was 69 when he took office in 1981. In Florida, site of Tuesday's GOP primary and home of the country's highest concentration of people 65 and older, many did not care about his age.
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