Word: april
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Most large companies have released their first quarter earnings and the critical economic figures for March and April are out. A growing number of economists say that the consumer will begin to conquer his panic by year's end and GDP will revive as if nothing had happened. The most recent poll from the Blue Chip Economic Indicators newsletter shows that many analysts expect GDP to recover as early as the third quarter but since that the measure was down 6% the last two quarters, such a swift recovery would be like building the Great Pyramid by hand...
...global health decisions have created quite as much commotion as that on April 29, when the World Health Organization (WHO), responding to the escalating spread of the H1N1 flu, raised its pandemic alert level for the first time to phase 5, meaning that a full pandemic was considered imminent. As of May 11, the WHO has reported more than 4,600 cases in 30 countries - including 2,600 cases in nearly every state in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - and the threat level remains at phase...
...authors of the Science paper based their findings on early data from the H1N1 outbreak, estimating that about 23,000 people had been infected in Mexico by late April, with a fatality rate of about 0.4%. Those numbers come with a wide margin for error on either side, and there are still holes in the epidemiology that need to be filled, but the consensus is that the WHO's handling of H1N1 was reasonable. "Our research indicates that the WHO was justified in its actions in the early days," says Christophe Fraser, an epidemiologist at Imperial College and the lead...
...rowing strongly but ultimately falling short to a familiar foe. Harvard blew past most of the field easily in the Grand Final, with its 5:43.990 showing beating third-place Georgetown by over four seconds. But Princeton, which had dealt the Crimson its only loss of the season on April 25, had Harvard’s number once again. The Tigers jumped out to an immediate lead, and while the Crimson stayed close and made a push around the 1000-meter mark, Princeton ultimately held on to win the race with a final time...
...thought it was a good effort," said injured Redline co-captain Chris Stevens. "We kind of hit a lull in late March, early April, but I found the team on Saturday playing with the intensity that we had been lacking...