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...This is good. I’m glad it ended up working out. I think she’s more nervous than I am. She’s got to worry about walking out there,” Baird says. The music begins, and the designers take their seats. Let the judging begin...
...report on climate change, I come across a lot of scary facts, like the possibility that thawing permafrost in Siberia could release gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere or the risk that Greenland could pass a tipping point and begin to melt rapidly. But one of the most frightening studies I've read recently had nothing to do with icebergs or mega-droughts. In a paper that came out Oct. 23 in Science, John Sterman - a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Sloan School of Management - wrote about asking 212 MIT grad students to give a rough...
...weekend to Penn for the ITA Women’s Eastern Regional Championship. Both competed in the singles draw and as a team in the doubles competition. Peterzan made her most successful run in the main singles draw, an opportunity of which she took full advantage. Things did not begin easily for Peterzan, as she faced Elyse Steiner of Temple in a tough three-set match in the first round. The Crimson player took the first set and had a match point in the second, but Steiner fought back to even the score. The final set proved easier for Peterzan...
...Stevens' image problems did not, however, begin with the trial. Allegations of his friends and relatives benefiting from federal largesse have circulated in Alaska for years. While his trial was underway, a story broke about $2.7 million in federal funding that Stevens directed to be used to pave a rural road in his town that leads to his favorite restaurant - a restaurant owned by a longtime friend and campaign contributor...
...Europe fared no better during the initial hours of trading, with London's FTSE 100 at one point dropping 5.6% to its lowest mark since April, 2003. In Paris, France's CAC 40 plunged 5.4%, while Germany's Dax was down 3.3%. Things looked set to begin just as bad in New York, meanwhile, with Dow Jones futures trading 3.2% down, in line with Friday's drop...