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...stabilize. Investment in housing was also down 38%, the sharpest drop since 1980, and there, too, optimists have found early signs of stabilization. It's not unreasonable to think that, sometime in the next few quarters or even months, business and housing will stop dragging the economy down and begin to provide at least a modest boost. (See pictures of retailers that have gone out of business...
...Here was my whole world: home, school, the movies and God." Begin with the movies, for they taught young Terry that there was a glamorous land, far from working-class Liverpool, where dreams came true. "At seven," he says, "I saw Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain, and discovered the movies, loved them and and swallowed them whole. ... Musicals, melodramas, westerns: Nothing was too rich or too poor for my rapacious appetite, and I gorged myself with a frequency that would shame a sinner." But he wasn't a sinner; he was a convert to the platonic ideal Hollywood...
...According to the list of reductions published on the FAS Web site, the Sunday through Wednesday shuttle service to the Quad will cease at 1:30 a.m. rather than 3:50 a.m. Shuttle service will also begin at 12:15 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, rather than...
...epidemiologists begin to crunch the data on H1N1, we should have a better idea of how it spreads - and how dangerous it might be. New studies published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine indicate that older people in the U.S. also appear to have escaped the virus - just 5% of U.S. patients with confirmed cases of H1N1 are 51 or older. Still, since health officials have so far focused mostly on outbreaks in schools, it's possible they are simply missing older cases. "This is an evolving outbreak and we're still learning how this virus works," said...
...warrior," I read your story with disgust and sadness. The complete chain of command should be reassigned, with a failure noted in their records. Then, and only then, can the healing begin. Ray Slingerland, Milton...