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...thought a month ago. Just this week, Germany's three-year job boom came to a screeching halt when the labor office reported that in December unemployment rose by a seasonally adjusted 18,000, nearly twice the level predicted in a poll of 30 economists by the news agency Bloomberg. It was the first increase in joblessness since February 2006. "The economic crisis has reached the labor market," said Frank-Juergen Weise, head of the Labor Agency. On Thursday, the government reported that German exports, the main driver of the country's economy, plunged 10.6% in November from the month...
...debate over sex education has long been a heated one. A new study released Dec. 29 found that a popular method of promoting abstinence - pledging to remain a virgin - doesn't appear to be the answer. To reach this conclusion, Janet Rosenbaum, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health, analyzed information gathered from nearly 1,000 teenagers, of which approximately 30% took a virginity pledge. Parsing the data, Rosenbaum found that the teenagers who took chastity vows were just as likely to have premarital sex as their peers-and significantly less likely to use protection. TIME...
...last place you need ideology is transportation. LaHood has a great reputation and track record of working across party lines. It's very encouraging." - Roger Cohen, president of the Regional Airline Association in Washington, D.C., Bloomberg...
...More than once the entire House stood up and applauded how he comported himself in the chair." - Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Cal.), on LaHood's agile handling of the 1998 House impeachment trial of then President Bill Clinton, Bloomberg...
...Rahm is a guy who can't get along with Republicans is just not true. The truth is in politics, you can count your friends on one or two hands, but he's been a true friend." -on his relationship with incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Bloomberg...