Zubin Jelveh

Zubin Jelveh

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Zubin is a former staff writer for Portfolio and Reuters, has contributed to The New York Times and The New Republic. He holds degrees in economics and journalism.

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Ranking America's Latest Troop Commitment

posted:  58 days 1 hour ago

(Jan. 19) – The estimated 11,000 troops to be sent to Haiti in the next few weeks to aid in recovery efforts has meant yet another significant military commitment from the United States – ...

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So Far, Death Toll Is Small Percentage of Those at Risk

posted:  63 days 4 hours ago

(Jan. 14) -- Despite Haiti's relatively small size, the close proximity of Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake to the capital city of Port-au-Prince meant that an estimated 2.9 million people were exp ...

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Does Online Advertising Really Work?

posted:  65 days 7 hours ago

(Jan. 12) -- I look at hundreds, if not thousands, of online ads each day, but the chance that any one of them will seduce me into making a purchase -- let alone clicking on an ad -- is pretty to clo ...

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$2.6 Trillion Worth of Disasters

posted:  77 days 2 hours ago

(Dec. 31) – If you've sipped at all from the certifiable torrent of retrospectives that have appeared in the past few weeks, you've been reminded why the 2000s were a period we'd all surely lik ...

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5 Rules to Cheat By: Tiger Woods Edition

posted:  90 days ago

(Dec. 18) -- Now that the flood of women claiming or denying trysts with Tiger Woods has ebbed, it seems only appropriate -- or completely inappropriate -- to take a good look at his alleged sources ...

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Is America in Decline? The Charts Don't Lie ...

posted:  99 days 7 hours ago

(Dec. 9) -- It is a possibility universally debated, to paraphrase (or mangle) the great writer: that the American dynasty is in decline. That, after all, was the subtext for the controversy over Pr ...

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Online Dating Mysteries Revealed

posted:  126 days 5 hours ago

(Nov. 12) -- Want to get an online date? Keep your messages short. For men, whites are the most likely to get a response online; Indians the least likely. Among women, Middle Easterners garner the m ...

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