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...looks even bleaker in the House for Rep. Thompson. His version of the bill likely won't even make it into committee. Rep. James Oberstar, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, would rather let the DOT regulate tarmac strandings than have Congress step in, says Jim Berard, the committee's spokesman...
...closer inspection, however, the site has shed its eye-catching, gossip-column skin and revealed its bleaker side as an outlet for the closeted, the saddened, and the isolated. These explicit posts of loneliness and depression—buried amid comments that describe Harvard-only porn casts or detail masturbatory techniques in Mather Library—deserve the most attention, and interestingly have garnered the most votes of agreement on the site...
...Crimson closed the deficit but only came within three points of Brown, as the Bears took the first game decisively, 30-25.The second game began in similar style as Brown’s dominating attack quickly put the Crimson behind 1-5. As the game progressed, the score looked bleaker still when Brown held a 21-15 lead.But thanks to poor sets and ball handling errors by the Bears, Harvard took four of the next five points to make the score 20-22. That was the closest the Crimson would come, as Brown clung to its lead down the stretch...
...Andrew Sum, a sociologist at Northeastern University who studies youth in the workforce, has a bleaker explanation: traditional jobs for youths are disappearing. As immigrants and oldsters crowd the market for jobs flipping burgers or packing groceries, teens are getting squeezed. In 1978, 61% of kids aged 16 to 19 worked; in 2005, it was 40%. Sum's data does not include internships...
THAT'S A RATHER BLEAK SENTIMENT. THIS NOVEL FEELS A LITTLE BLEAK TO ME TOO. Is it? I think novels always feel bleaker to the person that reads them than the person that writes them. I guess I do feel the decline of America, let's call it, and without being any less of an American myself, the piggishness of us all. Clearly, there's going to be a global crisis in the amount of petroleum in the world. There's only so much, and there are more people wanting it. No wonder the Third World is sore...