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...depressed mood is typical of the gloom that has enveloped the world's 13th largest economy. As has happened around the world, the panic that began on Wall Street has seeped into the minds and hearts of South Korean businessmen, bankers and housewives, who fear the consequences of an impending global recession. With the country heavily reliant on exports, South Korea, like the rest of Asia, cannot escape the fallout from a U.S. downturn. Goldman Sachs predicts GDP growth will sink to 3.9% in 2009, the lowest since...
Despite opposition from law enforcement agencies and several health organizations, voters in Michigan passed a measure that will allow patients who suffer from "debilitating medical conditions" to use marijuana for medical purposes with their physician's approval. The decision, which passed with 63% of the vote, makes Michigan the 13th U.S. state - and first state in the Midwest - to legalize medical marijuana...
...latest crop of voting innovations are not flawless either. "Direct-recording electronic" (DRE) equipment like touchscreens don't leave a verifiable paper trail. During a 2006 congressional race in Florida's 13th district, where DRE equipment is used, an astonishing 15% of voters cast their ballots for ... well, no one. According to the ballot results, some 18,000 voters hadn't registered a choice at all. That the election was determined by less than 400 votes made the lack of tangible records even more troubling. Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist wants to scrap such machines, saying, "I get a receipt...
...second Harvard finisher, coming in at seventh overall with a time of 19:43.Freshmen Alison Lee, Kirsten Jorgensen, and Elizabeth Heller finished ninth, 10th, and 11th, respectively, with times of 19:52, 20:19, and 20:31. Fellow freshman Meg Looney rounded out the Crimson effort with a 13th-place time of 20:58.On the men’s side, freshman Michael Hoffman crossed the finish line at 26:32 in the 8K race to earn 13th, while classmate Darcy Wilson seized the 22nd spot with his 27:25 finish.“I was really pleased with...
...Tallinn seems made for such spooky tales. The medieval city is one of the best preserved in Europe, its 13th and 14th century gabled buildings built when Tallinn was a major link in the chain of Hanseatic trading centers that stretched across the continent's north. As the days grow gloomier in October, the atmosphere lends itself to the appearance of apparitions-imagined or not. Low clouds scud across the gray Baltic waters. The streets empty out as summer visitors who came for the parties and cheap beer head home. Centuries of sieges, plagues and political intrigues leave a catalogue...