By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

It is a tried and true path towards growth, competitiveness and employment.

And the first one, and I'm about to utter a heresy here, none of them exercise, at least the way we think of exercise.

For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

One view is that their surpluses were a corollary of the policies favoring export led growth that worked so well for so long. China s leaders are understandably reluctant to abandon a tried and true model.

Designer John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became president in 2008. Maeda, a tireless experimenter and a witty observer, explores the crucial moment when design met computers.

Devaluation is the tried and true remedy for such ills. But a 2 change in currency values is too little to make much of a difference, given that wages in Chinese manufacturing are rising at an annual rate of 10 .