On Jan. 3, Commissioner Burden introduced a zoning amendment that will preserve small shops on avenues with a residential character and force new banks on the Upper West Side to shift most of their services from extended street fronts to second-floor locations.

WSJ: Zoning Laws Grow Up | By Julie V. Iovine

But it is heaven for the young and flexible: help-wanted signs usually impose an upper age limit of 30, and the shift to free enterprise has put a premium on educated newcomers who do not have to unlearn the bad old ways.

ECONOMIST: A survey of the young

Thomas Harrah of Seth performed at least 228 pre-shift, on-shift and conveyor belt safety examinations at Upper Big Branch over a nearly two-year period from January 2008 to August 2009, according to state records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

FORBES: New Evidence of Deceit and Deception in Mine Disaster that Killed 29

According to Mr Tyrie, this marks a shift of opinion inside his own party: when he published a pamphlet last year suggesting that the upper chamber should be directly elected, virtually no Conservatives agreed.

ECONOMIST: Lords reform