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...There is unemployment, a brief and relatively routine transitional state that results from the rise and fall of companies in any economy, and there is unemployment--chronic, all-consuming. The former is a necessary lubricant in any engine of economic growth. The latter is a pestilence that slowly eats away at people, families and, if it spreads widely enough, the fabric of society...
...more than any other U.S. Winter Olympian. Bode Miller, the Torino pariah who came out of retirement to give the Olympics one more go, showed that when expectations are lifted, and extracurricular drinking stilted, a supremely gifted skier can pick up a gold, silver and bronze. (See TIME's brief history of Olympic sore losers...
...Canada holding a 2-1 lead, the 18,000 fans at the Canada Hockey Place, thousands in the streets of Vancouver, and millions watching on television across all North America, could sense it. Canada would realize its dream and take the men's hockey title. (See TIME's brief history of opening ceremonies...
...Read a brief history of the flu vaccine...
Fire fighters, police and ocean safety officials were going from hotel to hotel to brief tourists of what to do. Keep away from the shore. And evacuate vertically - that is, to higher floors - if the word is given to do so. Public address systems repeated this information constantly on the streets of Waikiki as well as in all hotels in the area. (See the recovery from the great Indian Ocean tsunami...