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...preferences and spits out a match - which both sides are obliged to abide by. On the third Thursday in March, these graduates find out where they will serve their first few years as a hospital intern and resident. It's a day that can define careers - and make or break relationships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Match Day: Young Doctors in Hell | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...reason for the surge: under a German economic stimulus program started in January, car owners who trade in vehicles that are more than nine years old for new, more environmentally friendly models can expect individual rebates of $3,172 from the German government. Buyers also get a break from paying road tax for at least a year. Similar scrapping schemes have been launched in recent months in France, Italy and Spain, while motor manufacturers in Britain are pleading with their government to follow suit. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Auto-Woes Fix: Scrap That Clunker! | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...Texas supplier. "If we didn't put any bees out here, I think we'd have a crop failure," he says, "and I'm not about to learn." Three years of record yields have depressed almond prices to half their peak; many growers will be lucky to break even this year. Meanwhile, a drought led Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency on Feb. 27. Some almond farmers didn't even rent bees this year, figuring they wouldn't have enough water to irrigate their trees all summer. Ironically, it's been rainy around Hughson, cutting hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Hughson | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...lyrics, since almost every word that the group records is totally inane, but by the time the album progresses through it’s blurry B-side to the penultimate “This Isn’t You,” the simile “Your words break me down like a wrecking ball / I’m so sick of it all” will seem like a godsend. Other gems like “It’s time that I rain on your parade / Watch as all your hopes explode to landmines?...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Found Glory | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...late Benazir Bhutto [Zardari's assassinated wife] stood when she promised the reinstatement of the Chief Justice. And I stand on the ground that is sanctified by three signatures on three different occasions by the new President, Asif Ali Zardari. It's ironic that the person who didn't break an agreement should be on the run." (See pictures of Pakistanis mourning for Bhutto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pakistan, Zardari's Crackdown Betrays Weakness | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

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