Geopolitical – Week of 7.22.12

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Oliver Sacks New Year’s resolutions often have to do with eating more healthfully, going to the gym more, giving up sweets, losing weight —

By Helen Jung It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red.