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...People forced to economize by forgoing outings to restaurants will visit McDonald's to compensate, while lower-income people already frequenting McDonald's will tend to choose cheaper menu options there rather than giving it up," says Raphael Berger, deputy director of the consumer division at France's Research Center for the Study and Observation of Living Conditions in Paris. "McDonald's has successfully marketed itself as a festive and affordable dining option to young and less-affluent people. That is now starting to spread to other segments as people in most socioeconomic categories feel less affluent...
...ended the night as the team’s leading scorer, but junior center Doug Miller had one of his more dominant stretches in a Crimson uniform when he scored on four of Harvard’s first six second-half possessions to pull his team to within one with 16:24 to play in regulation. The junior started with a pretty spin move in the lane for an easy two, then hit two free throws after pulling down the offensive board on a missed layup from...
...Alex Barnett followed at the other end with a tough jumper, but Miller quickly responded with two on a turnaround fall-away on the baseline. By that point, Miller’s teammates knew he was hot—on the next time down the floor, Lin found his center open under the basket for an easy...
...silver lining of this massive brown cloud is that a boost in those technologies could decrease soot emissions - fast. "We can't fix every environmental problem, but we can make a huge and immediate change by reducing black carbon," says Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Director of the Center for Clouds, Chemistry & Climate at the University of California at San Diego. (Black carbon manifests as soot particles that comprise brown clouds.) While carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere respond on a sluggish 100-year timescale to reductions in emissions, soot particles, whose effects are equivalent to roughly half the warming damage that carbon...
...York Times, Gillibrand's colleagues in the House gave her a standing ovation for working until the day she gave birth to her younger son. She reportedly took the Washington Metro to work every day with her elder son, dropping him off at the congressional day-care center on her way to work...