To-Do List: Second Chances for Michael Vick, Alvin Greene

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To know: Ninety-eight banks that received TARP bailouts are close to collapse, according to the Wall Street Journal. President Obama is glad that the Eagles gave Michael Vick a second chance. And regarding the guilty verdict in Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s trial, Russia is “counting on everyone minding his own business.”

To look for new jobs: Most workers in the coming year, according to a poll that found that eighty-four per cent of employees want to change positions in 2011, compared to sixty per cent the previous year.

To stick with politics: Alvin Greene, the surprise Senate candidate in South Carolina this year. On Christmas Eve, Greene filed to run for a seat in the state’s House of Representatives. And he is not ruling out a go at the Oval Office.

To reach five dollars a gallon? Gasoline, by 2012, predicts John Hofmeister, the former president of Shell Oil.

To receive 11.6 trillion dollars: Baby boomers, who are expected to collect a median inheritance of sixty-four thousand dollars each, with wealthier households inheriting an average of 1.5 million dollars.

To transcribe writings by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham: You, if you want. After more than fifty years working on the papers, University College London has only transcribed about half of them. Now they’re crowd-sourcing the project.